Sweet Basil Breakfast Pies

Sweet Basil Breakfast Pies are great hot out of the oven.

You can freeze them and take pop them into the microwave for a quick breakfast treat.

I have tried with other basils for different flavors, but Sweet Basil shows great flavor for my breakfast pies.  For a spicy flavor, I sometimes use Thai Basil or Spicy Globe.  If I’m only using vegetables, then I use Lemon or Lime Basils.

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Sweet Basil Breakfast Pies

Ingredients

1/2 pound sausage, crumbled

1/2 pound bacon, diced

1/2 cup Jalapeno, minced

1 can Biscuit dough, flaky

3 Eggs, beaten

3 tablespoons Milk

1/2 cup Mushrooms, diced

1/2 cup Green Onions, diced

1 cup Cheddar Cheese, shredded

Snipping Sweet Basil

Snip a few leaves from the sweet basil plant. Make sure that you are not snipping the new growth.

Washing Sweet Basil

Rinse the Sweet Basil leaves in cool water and then dry them on a paper towel.

Chop the leaves with kitchen utility scissors and put in a bowl.

Cooking the Bacon and Sautéing Vegetables

Dice and cook the bacon. It is easier to dice the bacon when it is raw than chopping it after cooking it.

While the bacon is cooking, sauté the jalapenos in another pan. Let it cook for a minute or so and then add chopped green onions to it.

Stir the mixture well and let it cook for a while. Once it gets sautés, put them in a bowl.

Dice the mushrooms and sauté the mushrooms.

Once the mushrooms are sautéed, put them in a bowl.

You should keep the vegetables and meat separated while cooking, especially if you are going to serve vegetarians.

Browning the Sausage

Cook the sausage.  Once it’s browned, put it in a bowl.

Putting Pies Together

Take any type of refrigerator biscuit, flatten it either with a rolling pen or with your hands and put them on the pan.

Put bacon in some of the biscuits and sausage in the others. You can put whatever ingredients into the pies that you want.

Put the Jalapenos and green onions into the biscuits.

Add the mushrooms to the biscuits and then add a little bit of Sweet Basil to the biscuits. Add only a little of basil, since Basil is a spice.

Slightly beat the eggs and pour to the top of the biscuit.

Sprinkle some shredded Cheddar cheese and bake it at 350F degrees until the egg is puffy on top and it doesn’t jiggle.

Breakfast Pies out of the Oven

The breakfast pie is now out of the oven. You can eat it right away, or freeze it, heat it in the microwave anytime!

‘Love Your Basil’

Ramona