This low carb sausage & egg muffin sandwich uses grain free muffins for a delicious breakfast on the go. Each sausage & egg muffin sandwich has only 1.8g net carbs!
You might also like these savory low carb breakfast cookies.
McDonald’s sausage & egg mcmuffins are my guilty pleasure. I used to be safe from their greasy breakfast food lure because I am never that hungry during breakfast hours. But now McDonalds serves breakfast all day <sigh>.
So that was the impetus of me making this low carb sausage & egg muffin sandwich. While it’s not as greasy and chewy as a Mickie Dee’s, it did satisfy my craving and had only 1.8g net carbs for the whole thing!
Luckily I hang out at a great blog Traveling Low Carb. Lynn Terry is very helpful to those doing a low carb diet and she has many tips and food logs to help you out. I also belong to her Facebook group 90 Day Low Carb Challenge. These people will truly inspire you if you see how much weight they lose.
Anyway, I got the muffin recipe from Lynn Terry. I think it was perfect to make my favorite sausage egg breakfast sandwich
Low Carb Sausage & Egg Muffin Recipe
To make the muffins, all you need to do is mix together almond flour, cheddar cheese, Parmesan cheese, eggs and butter. This will make a dough that you can then form into muffins as pictured above.
Below you can see what they look like coming out fo the oven. They taste more like a biscuit then an English muffin but it works!
To get the egg in that circular form, I used the lid of a mason jar. Just spray it with cooking spray and crack your egg in the middle. You will get a little overhang but overall it works in a pinch.
I bought the already formed Bob Evans sausage patties and made the eggs using mason jar lids in my skillet.
I also just use 1 muffin per sandwich. Doesn’t make it very easy to eat with your hands but I felt that was all I need to get my sandwich to taste the way I like it.
So here is my carbs counts for this tasty breakfast sandwich. I hope you like them as much as I do and hopefully it will keep me away from McDonald’s all day breakfasts.
1 muffin
87 cals / 7.1g fat /1.5g carbs / 0.8g fiber / 4.1g protein = 0.7g net carbs
Egg & Sausage Sandwich (2muffins)
412 cals / 34g fat / 3.3g carbs / 1.5g fiber / 22g protein = 1.8g net carbs
Adapted from Lynn Terry’s recipe here.
Sausage & Egg Muffin (low carb, grain free)
Ingredients
- ½ cup cheddar cheese shredded
- ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup almond flour
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
To make a sandwich
- 7 sausage small patties (I used Bob Evans)
- 7 fried eggs
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Mix all ingredients except sausage and eggs and chill for 20 minutes.
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Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
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Divide dough and make muffins about the size of the sausage patties.
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Bake for 10 minutes
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Assemble your sandwiches with two muffins, 1 sausage and 1 fried egg.
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Eat immediately or store in the refrigerator or freeze.
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Recipe yields 14 muffins and if you use 2 muffins per sandwich, 7 sandwiches. I think 1 muffin is enough for my tastes so you can get more sandwiches out of this recipe if you feel the same.
Joan
Made them this morning and I loved it, I maybe made my muffins a bit big because I yielded 5. But it was okay as I just baked an extra five minutes or so. Really tasty and I’ll have four more for the week. I love breakfast and was having trouble with the same eggs and bacon over and over. Thanks so much.
Denise
Hi Joan, so glad you liked them. I haven’t made these in a while so I’ll have to give them a try again.
Dianne
I made 1.5 batch of these and added a sprinkle of seasoning, and used my muffin top/whoopie pie pan. Made 24 muffins. Scrambled 18 eggs and baked them as 12 in the same pan. They made a good solid sandwich for my son, and I ate one egg with one muffin open faced and was satisfied. Tomorrow I’m going to make the dough, maybe add a little milk to thin it out, and put it in a muffin tin with some cooked sausage. Great find, thanks!
Denise
Hi Dianne, so glad you liked them. Thanks for coming back to comment and share your tips!
Cheryl
Your recioe instructions need to be revised to make sense. It appears it should read to mix the first five ingredients together to make the muffins.
Denise
Hi Cheryl,
I’m sorry that is a very old recipe and I need to redo it. I’ll try to redo it next week and reprint it. Thanks for bring that to my attention!
Cheryl
It really is a great recipe and I am going to make them tomorrow. Thank you.
Denise
Thanks Cheryl! I do need to remake them and take new pictures. But so glad you like them!
Kay
How do you freeze these?
Denise
Hi Kay, I just use baggies or ziplocks for the buns. You can freeze the whole thing too but I would just watch when microwaving so you don’t over cook it. Just enough to thaw and warm it through.
Laura
I dont know that brand of sausage, can you please provide the nutritional information so I can make this with local products. Thanks!
Laura
Denise
I had used the Lose It app to calculate the nutritional data for this recipe and using Bob Evan’s sausage patty that I got at Aldi (a grocery store) I get 0 carbs listed for it. I also looked on Bob Evan’s site and they say they have 0 carbs in their sausage. Another online nutrition label calculator gave me even smaller carb numbers when I entered the whole recipe so I’m not sure what numbers you would like to use. I just give people an estimated carb count because different brands and different calculators will give different results. I like to use the Lose It app because I have so many recipes and items already calculated in it. Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.