Healthy Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls

Looking for premade breakfast ideas to use for meal prep? These healthy breakfast bowls are made with sweet and spicy chicken crumbles, roasted potatoes and peppers, and scrambled eggs. If you’re a fan of chorizo and potato egg tacos and Tex-Mex flavors, these breakfast scramble bowls will be right up your alley.

The recipe makes eight bowls to feed the whole crew or stash away in the freezer for quick breakfasts. Each bowl has 42 grams of protein with only 31 grams of carbs and 465 calories. And there are plenty of customizations you can make like using egg whites instead of whole eggs to make these breakfast bowls hit your calorie needs.

I’ll walk you through each component and substitutions below, and you can find a printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. Don’t hesitate to leave any ingredient or preparation questions in the comments of this post.

The Roasted Potatoes, Peppers, and Onions

There’s just something about a giant sheet pan full of roasted vegetables. This recipe sticks to the classic potatoes, peppers, and onions, but there are plenty of swaps you can make to account for calorie needs.

For low carb breakfast bowls, you could swap the potatoes for “keto potatoes” or red radishes like in my keto breakfast skillet. Are radishes as good as potatoes? Of course not! But they’re surprisingly good and would work really well with the peppers and onion here.

You can also use other vegetables like the carrots, mushrooms, peppers, and spinach combo from my egg white tostadas.

What about other cook methods like an air fryer or stovetop?

I have an air fryer breakfast potatoes recipe with nearly the same ingredients. In that recipe, I tossed twenty-four ounces of potatoes with two peppers and air fried at 400ºF for about 30 minutes, shaking every 10 minutes or so.

To turn this into a one-skillet recipe, take notes from my Mexican breakfast skillet, in which I cooked chorizo and transferred out of the pan before cooking diced potatoes and poblano peppers for 6-8 minutes with the pan covered. Then once the potatoes were tender I transferred them into a bowl with the chorizo and cooked egg whites in the same skillet. Everything goes in together and is topped with chopped corn tortillas and cheese then broiled to finish.

It’s worth mentioning that both methods mentioned above produce a lower vegetable yield. Reduce the amount of chicken and eggs accordingly, if you’re planning to air fry or sauté your veggies.

The Ground Chicken and Scrambled Eggs

Before I talk about the sauce for the chicken, I’ll say there are a ton of options for flavor profiles. I’ve included a few suggestions like chorizo-style chicken, classic black pepper breakfast sausage, and chicken tinga sauces in the recipe card’s notes section below. You can even find serviceable “simmer” or “skillet” sauces (example) in most grocery stores these days, if you’re looking for a minimal effort sauce.

That said, I think the chipotle and pineapple based sauce works perfectly for breakfast bowls. If you’ve seen my recently published al pastor ground turkey recipe, this sauce is very similar but omits a few ingredients like achiote paste. The pineapple provides the perfect amount of sweetness to balance the heat of the chipotle peppers.

In addition to canned pineapple in juice and chipotle peppers in adobo, all you’ll need is a bit of garlic, salt, dried oregano, and ground cumin, cinnamon, and cloves. Fairly minimal, right?

The sauce goes in a skillet with two pounds of browned and fully cooked ground chicken. If you don’t have ground chicken on hand, ground turkey works fine. But I’d highly recommend making homemade ground chicken breast with a food processor if your local grocery store doesn’t carry it. (Because I have so many ground chicken recipes!)

As for the scramble component of these breakfast scramble bowls, you’ll need 18 whole eggs and a large pan. If you’re intimidated by scrambling a whole carton of eggs at once, split them up in two or three batches. Keep the heat below medium and exercise patience!

Making Meal Prep Breakfast Bowls

I’ve included the nutrition information for each component, including half whole eggs and half egg whites, in the recipe card below. That way you can divide the entire recipe into whatever number of servings makes sense for you.

Personally, I think the eight servings creates a nice ratio of chicken to eggs and vegetables. See the meal prep containers below for a visual representation.

And as far as storage goes, I would recommend refrigerating for up to 3-4 days and freezing for any longer than that. Just transfer one of your healthy breakfast bowls from the freezer to the refrigerator the night before and microwave for 3-4 minutes in the morning.

One big tip I can give for meal prep would be to prepare all your toppings and garnishes at once and store them separately. Though in the case of these breakfast bowls, most of my recommended garnishes are sauces, cotija cheese, and Greek yogurt or sour cream. So those don’t require any prep, which is always nice!

All right, that should cover everything you need to know about making these breakfast meal prep bowls. Be sure to let me know how yours turn out in a recipe review or comment. And if you need a sweeter breakfast idea, be sure to check out my Greek yogurt and blueberries bowls next.