Breakfast Taco HELP...

[matt_aggie04]

I need to cook breakfast tacos on Wed and I need to know what to buy for roughly 80-100 breakfast tacos.  If anyone has some tips on how to tackle this I am all ears.  I am gonig to brown the sausage the night before but I need tips on to make this go smoothly, only offereing bacon and egg and sausage and egg with cheese and and potatoe and salsa optional.

[aladatrot]

Umm... I've never done that before, but I would brown the meat and cook the eggs the night before. I wouldn't hard scramble the eggs, rather lightly scramble them so that they won't over cook in the microwave when you heat them up in the morning to make your tacos. I would put the warm tacos in a cooler to keep them hot till you get where you are going. Cilantro and onions are a bueno addition to any taco. You can chop them in the blender or food processor and have a ziploc full of each for folks to add to their tacos in the morning.

I'll have a barbacoa taco with cilantro, onions, and queso fresco.

Gracias
M

[Circle C]

Order them from a taco stand. $100.00 bucks and you are done!  They will provide the salsa too.

[leifbarnes]

Buy the 3lb Wright bacon ends and pieces 4-5 boxes, 10lbs Bought 150 eggs and lotsa cheese.

[dub]

I would start with 100 tortillas. It depends on your set up. I would never cook the eggs the night before unless you do not like the people. You are talking about enough eggs for 100 tacos.  You want to stay out of the temperature danger zone as much as possible. I would crack the eggs and mix them cold in a container the night before and refrigerate them until cooking. You can brown the sausage in small batches and refrigerate them. Remember the smaller package will cool faster. When you scramble the eggs reheat the sausage and mix them together put them in the tortilla and add cheese. Have hot sauce for those that want it. If you have a grill where you will be serving that would be best but you want the time from the grill as short as possible without burning any tongues! I have done it before.

[Cristina]

When I make breakfast burritos at home what I do with potatoes I cut up a couple potatoes in to small pieces and put it in a small pot, boil it until its all mooshed and add butter and milk to make it creamy of course you would probably cook a lot more than just a couple of white potatoes and use a bigger pot. I saute onions and bell peppers etc on a pan with some olive oil first then add the scrambled eggs. when I make the tacos I slap some of the mashed potatoes on to a flour tortilla then put the eggs, sausage or bacon and cheese on it or however my dad wants. I would do what Mandi said, lightly scramble the eggs and saute onions, bell peppers etc separate.

Hope this helps.

[dub]

I prefer bacon over sausage. That is because cooked bacon can be kept at room temperature. The health department has no time limit on cooked bacon at room temperature. You can cook it the night before break it up into pieces and mix it in the eggs as you put it on the grill. You can just put a piece in each taco but you can use less bacon and have more flavor with bacon pieces. There are lots of ways to make them it just depends on what you want. If you add the bacon to the eggs early it will settle on the bottom. Also some people may just want eggs without bacon. You can add options with bacon and sausage. Maybe no eggs. The main thing is either have the food refrigerated, cooking or being ate.

[Texas_Cur]

Matt I know you eat a lot but 100 breakfast tacos may be a little overkill. 

I would have to defer to Chris's advice and hit up the taco stand

[DoGgONit]

i hope you dount have to BUY  the sausage !!!

[Browndog]

We have made large batches of tacos several times for 4-H concessions for fundraisers,so maybe I can be of a little help.  A dozen eggs, a pound of sausage, and a couple of medium potatoes, will make about 20 to 24 tacos.  When you get all your tacos cooked and wrapped with foil, lay them all on the oven racks in a 300 degree oven for about 10 minutes, put them directly from the oven into an ice chest,  will stay really hot for a couple of hours.  Don't cook the eggs the night before.  Good Luck!

[MachinesOldLady]

You can use those crinkle cut (unseasoned) fries for the potatoes. It won't take as long to cook them. You just need to chop them up & stick them in a pan & bake them. Get a bunch of those disposable foil pans to make your life easier.
Bacon can be cooked to the soft stage the night before, then just stick it back in the oven in the morning to crisp it up. You've got the right idea on the sausage.
All the eggs can be scrambled the night before. If you have some plastic pitchers it'll make it easier to pour some out, cook & place in a pan the next day.
All the tortillas can be wrapped in foil then stuck in a pan too to get them warm.

If you have any ketchup bottles that are just about empty you can clean them out & stick your salsa in those to make it easy to use & a little less messy.

The idea about the bacon ends is a good one. You normally have like four inch pieces in those boxes which would be perfect for breakfast tacos. If you're selling them individually then I really like the idea of foil wrapping each one fully made the night before so all you have to do is shove them in the oven.

Good luck!

[Bryant]

I agree with Browndog's quantities.  You can substitute a package of cheap bacon for the lb. of sausage and use the same dozen eggs.

My favorite tacos are made using refrigerated baked potatoes from the evening before.  Often when we grill, I'll wrap and bake on the grill a couple extra potatoes just for tacos the next morning.

I make mine like this:

Take a package of cheap bacon, and seperate the pieces into a large skillet.  They can all lay on top or all over each other.  Cook that on med-high constantly stirring around until the bacon is almost starting to crisp.  While the bacon is cooking, take the potatoes from the fridge, remove the foil and peel off the skin.  Cut them into small cubes.  Remove the bacon, chop it up (not too small of pieces) and set aside.  Drain about 3/4 of the grease.  Add about a tablespoon of butter and dump in the cubed potatoes along with about a half handful of coursely chopped onion.  Brown all this slighlty in the bacon grease / butter.  When browned, put the bacon back in and stir around.  While that's cooking a little, lightly scramble a dozen eggs.  I like to add a little milk to my eggs...makes them a little more fluffy.  When done, pour the eggs into the bacon/onion/potato mixture along with about a quarter handful of finely chopped fresh cilantro.  Let it cook a little, then stir it to mix all together.  The eggs cook fast, and will get too done / dry if your not careful.  Usually when I pour the eggs in, I turn off the stove and the heat is plenty to get them just right.

I like to heat my tortillas and mostly use store bought.  If your really wanting to make an impression stop by a mexican restaurant that makes their own tortillas and buy them there.  The secret to a great taco, is a good tortilla.

As for wrapping them, recruit a helper who can stack your tortillas and foil.  In other words, a big stack of rotating square of foil, then tortilla.  When time to wrap, one person scooping the mixture, grab a handful of cheese wrap it up and your on to the next one.

I've cooked this same thing for large groups, and just the wife, kids and I.  They turn out great!

Now you've made me hungry!

[aladatrot]

Matt, are you still folding tacos?

Cheers
M

[matt_aggie04]

Haha I was able to convince the powers that be that purchasing them would be better so I went to Dumass Tacos here in Tomball and supported a local veteran and bought a hundred tacos with cheese and salsa   

[aladatrot]

Smart.

Cheers
M

[coach]

use a big disc and propane heats up a hell of a lot faster also.