One bad habit I picked up when I retired was eating out for breakfast every day. This simple breakfast sandwich is helping me eat cheaper–and healthier.

This recipe is for a very basic breakfast sandwich. The ones here use sausage, scrambled eggs and cheese on top of an English muffin. You can literally do anything here, so feel free to change them up.

The key is to cook any meats on the weekend ahead of the week, then just pop things in the microwave to heat them up. Toast a muffin, layer items on the muffin–and away you go. Simple, fast–and cheap. Even more, you can control the content of the food.

  • 1 lb. Regular sausage
  • 6-8 English muffins
  • Gouda cheese, sliced
  • 1 egg for each sandwich
  • Salt and pepper
  • Additions (see below)

Heat the oven to 350F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil.

Form sausage into 6-8 patties. Make them slightly larger than the diameter of the normal tube of sausage–you want them to be the same diameter as the English muffins after the shrink from cooking.

Place the sausage on the lined pan, and bake in the oven at 350F for 30 minutes or so, flipping every 10 minutes, until done. Drain on paper towels. Store the cooked sausage in the fridge in a Ziplock bag or other container.

When you are ready to make the sandwich, heat 1 sausage patty up for about 30 sec in the microwave. Set aside.

Toast 1 English muffin.

While the muffin is toasting, add a little olive oil or butter to a small skillet, and heat on the stove over medium heat.

Crack 1 egg into a bowl and beat well. Add to the skillet and cook until the egg is set on one side, about 5 minutes. Carefully flip the egg, and cook another minute or so until that side is cooked. Salt and pepper to taste.

Fold egg in half, twice, to make the egg about 1/4 in size, or about the size of the English muffin. Place on top of one side of the muffin, add the sausage patty, cheese and any additional items. Add the other slice of muffin to make a small sandwich.

Enjoy!

Prep time: 5 min (sausage), 2 min (egg).
Cook time: 30 min (sausage), 5 min (egg).
Serves: 1.

Notes

Honestly, you could do this so many different ways. You could replace the sausage with ham or bacon. You could skip the egg. You could add spicy condiments like Sriracha or a little salsa to spice things up. The key is to keep the ingredients as simple as possible, while extracting the most flavor you can.

For additions, I like to use whipped cream cheese spread on one slice of the muffin, or maybe some oven roasted cherry tomatoes. Anything will work, really, just to kick things up a notch.

Let me know what you come up with!

Source: Marc Tabyanan.