Ham-ocado Egg Bites, A Mini Muffin Tin Recipe

Welcome to the January 24, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and frugal ingredients. Recently many of us picked up clearance ham, while avocados have  been on sale all over town, so: Ham-ocado Egg Bites is an easy gluten free, low carb recipe using leftover ham that your whole family is sure to love!

This easy cheesy leftover ham muffin tin recipe makes 12 mini muffin tin-sized egg bites (so you’ll want to double it if you’re feeding a family of four).

Ham-ocado Egg Bites

Ingredients

2 eggs
1 Tbsp milk
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1/2 a slice leftover cooked ham, diced
1/4 a large avocado, diced
Shredded cheddar cheese
green onions or fresh parsley for garnish, optional

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray. Add diced ham and avocado to the bottom of twelve of the muffin tin cups.

Whisk together eggs, milk, and smoked paprika and pour a little egg mixture into each cup over the ham and avocado, leaving a bit of room at the top for these to expand.

Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and add a little shredded cheddar cheese to the top of each egg bite, then bake for 5 more minutes until cheese is starting to brown and egg bites are cooked through.

Garnish with diced green onion or fresh parsley, if desired.

A super easy, crowd pleasing recipe

I should have made more! I enjoyed some Ham-ocado Egg Bites for lunch, and had a hard time keeping Mr. 8 from devouring all of the leftovers after school. He wasn’t pleased, but grudgingly saved a couple for MashupDad to try — so next time I’ll double the recipe to serve four for everyone to enjoy, because this is a keeper.

Definitely add the smoked paprika to kick things up a notch. You can use regular paprika if you don’t have smoked, but it really works well to enhance the inherent smokiness of the ham and provide a savory contrast to the cool creamy avocado. Ham-ocado Egg Bites are great for breakfast or for brunch, but also make for a fun & easy breakfast-for-dinner post-holiday option with a little leftover ham when you’re burnt out from cooking during the holidays!

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Ham-ocado egg bites is an easy + flavorful leftover ham mini muffin tin recipe! Gluten free + low carb.

Course Breakfast

Total Time 20 minutes minutes

Servings 2

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1 Tbsp milk
• 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
• 1/2 a slice leftover cooked ham, diced
• 1/4 a large avocado, diced
• Shredded cheddar cheese
• green onions or fresh parsley for garnish (optional)

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees and spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray. Add diced ham and avocado to the bottom of twelve of the muffin tin cups.
• Whisk together eggs, milk, and smoked paprika and pour a little egg mixture into each cup over the ham and avocado, leaving a bit of room at the top for these to expand.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and add a little shredded cheddar cheese to the top of each egg bite, then bake for 5 more minutes until cheese is starting to brown and egg bites are cooked through.
• Garnish with diced green onion or fresh parsley, if desired.

Notes

Definitely add the smoked paprika to kick things up a notch. You can use regular if you don’t have smoked, but it really works well to enhance the inherent smokiness of the ham and provide a savory contrast to the cool creamy avocado.

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