Eating enough protein at breakfast keeps your energy high throughout the day. But how to do that without eating tasty--but fatty--proteins like bacon and sausage is a problem. One way is to add plant proteins like beans and other legumes, which is why you see brown beans offered at many breakfast buffets. Humus, make from chick peas, is another example of a high protein, and it makes a delicious spread on your toast. 

For me, the easiest way is to add leftovers to my breakfast. In this case, we had leftover turkey chili, so I made a breakfast burrito.
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Chili Egg Breakfast Burrito

3            egg whites, scrambled       (or 1-2 eggs)
2 tbsp  leftover chili                          (or other beans)
1             whole wheat tortilla           (or other flour tortilla)

Mix the scrambled eggs with the chili.

Warm a tortilla in the microwave. (about 18 secs in my 1100 watt microwave)

Spread egg and chili mixture in middle of warm tortilla. Wrap and eat. 

As you can see, there are many variations depending on what you have on hand.

I usually add green onions when I'm scrambling eggs, for the color as well as the taste, but in this case, I didn't have any left, and there were plenty onions in the chili already. 

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Since I'm readying 17 yr old Jeremiah for life away from home, I'm getting him to do more of the cooking that doesn't include convenience meals. So last week when I decided to make chili, I figured it would be a good time for Jeremiah to try - especially since he loves my chili. Except this time I'd let him put his culinary touch on it.

There are no photos for this one as I didn't want him to feel crowded with me hovering over his shoulder while he made the chili. I'll post a photo of what we did with the leftovers though in a later post. 

We started out with a recipe that called for 2 lbs of ground turkey and all sorts of stuff, some of which we don't have, or that Jeremiah didn't want to add. And we only had 1 pound of ground turkey, so, here's what he used:

Turkey Chili

Ingredients:

1 lb   ground turkey breast
1 med   onion, chopped
2 (15 oz) cans    mixed beans, undrained
1 (12 oz) can   maple flavored beans
3    fresh tomatoes, diced
1 clove   garlic, minced
1 rounded tsp    taco seasoning
1 rounded tsp    paprika
1/2 tsp   ground pepper
1 tsp   course sea salt

Options:
- canned diced tomatoes vice fresh
- red/green sweet peppers
- chopped zuchini


Method:

1. Brown ground turkey in large dutch oven along with onions. As we used extra lean turkey, there was no excess fat to drain off, but if you have it, it should be drained off at this point.

2. Add the rest of the  ingredients to the cooked turkey. 

3. Jeremiah didn't add veggies like red/green sweet peppers or zuchini, but if you're adding them, saute until all veggies are tender. If you're using canned tomatoes, add them at this point. 

4. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 15-20 mins.

5. The original recipe called for adding the spices at this point, but Jeremiah added his in the saute stage. We didn't notice a difference.

6. Mix well, then simmer for 5 more minutes. Orig recipe calls for adding more salt and pepper to taste. Jeremiah tasted it and said, "Wow!" He didn't add anything else.

It was very good. We put the leftovers in a medium casserole dish and used the next day. I'll post those recipes soon.