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If you’re looking for an easy but impressive appetizer to share with the people you love, try these adorable Baked Egg Tortilla Bites.
To make them, cut out tortilla flowers with a cookie cutter. Pour in the cheesy egg mixture, then bake. To finish them off, top with a grape tomato heart and chive flower.
Enjoy these delicious tortilla egg bites for breakfast, as a snack, or as an appetizer at your next dinner party!
They are perfect for Valentine’s Day or any time of the year you want to go that extra mile. Feel free to add chopped red pepper, spinach, cottage cheese, ham, or mushrooms.
How to Make Baked Egg Tortilla Bites
- Prepare the tortilla flowers: Cut the flowers with a cookie cutter. Place them in a muffin tin and brush with oil. Bake until golden. Allow to cool.
- Prepare the topping: Mix egg, cheese, onion, cream, sea salt, and pepper.
- Assemble: Spoon the egg mixture into the baked tortilla flowers.
- Bake: Bake until cooked through. Garnish with tomato and chives.
Recipe Tip
These adorable bites are great for lunchboxes, too!
FAQs
Use a glass or similar to cut out round shapes to use the same way or trim them by hand.
Yes, if you have cherry tomatoes, halve them, scoop out the inside, and cut a zig-zag pattern to make a tulip shape instead (great for spring). And if you want to keep things real simple, top the egg bites with sour cream, guacamole, pesto, chopped chives, or other fresh herbs.
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Baked Egg Tortilla Bites
Equipment
Ingredients
Tortilla flowers
- 3 tortillas
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Egg mixture
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 red onion, chopped
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- 25 grams cheddar cheese, grated
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- pepper, to taste
Tomato flowers
- 5 grape tomatoes
- fresh chives, to garnish
Instructions
- Turn on the oven to 175°C (350°F).
- Cut out the tortilla flowers with the flower cookie cutter.
- Brush the top and bottom of the tortilla flowers with olive oil.
- Bake until slightly golden (about 3-5 minutes).
- Remove the tortilla flowers from the oven.
- Let them cool.
- Mix the eggs, cream, finely chopped red onion, cheddar, sea salt, and pepper.
- Spoon the mixture on top of each tortilla flower till the bottom is covered.
- Bake again until the egg is cooked (about 8 minutes).
- Remove the egg tortilla bites and allow to cool.
- Slice a grape tomato in the middle at a slant.
- Cut each half in half.
- Connect the two set of halves to make two hearts.
- Top the tomato hearts onto the egg tortillas.
- Arrange chopped chives as the stem.
- Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper.
- Serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
