Authentic Huevos Rancheros Recipe

Name: Authentic Huevos Rancheros Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 serving
Ingredients: 4 eggs; 3 roma tomatoes; 1 serrano chile; ¼ medium white onion; 1 clove garlic; ½ teaspoon thyme; ½ cup cooking oil + 1 tablespoon; 2 or 3 tablespoons of water; 4 corn tortillas; salt to taste; ½ cup refried beans; 6 tortilla chips

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Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
30 mins
Servings
2
Calories
295 kcal
Course
Breakfast
Cuisine
Mexican

Authentic Huevos Rancheros Recipe

Kaitlyn Vasquez

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Recipe for easy authentic "huevos rancheros" a Mexican breakfast dish prepared with two sunnyside-up eggs on fried corn tortillas covered in a spicy tomato salsa with refried beans on the side. A healthy and filling way to start your day.

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Ingredients

Servings

4 eggs
3 roma tomatoes plum tomatoes
1 serrano chile
¼ medium white onion
1 clove garlic
½ teaspoon thyme
½ cup cooking oil + 1 tablespoon
2 or 3 tablespoons of water
4 corn tortillas
salt to taste for the salsa
½ cup refried beans
6 tortilla chips to garnish the beans

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Instructions

SALSA
Roughly chop the tomatoes, onion, garlic and serrano chile.
Add to your blender jar.
Add ½ teaspoon thyme to the blender jar.
Add 2 tablespoons of water.
Blend until smooth. About 1 minute.
Heat 1 tablespoon of cooking oil in a saucepan to hot.
Carefully, pour the contents of the blender into the saucepan with the hot oil. (Be careful, the liquid tends to spatter.)
Simmer for about 10 minutes until the salsa is deep red in color and has thickened slightly.
Salt to taste.
TORTILLAS
Pour ½ cup of cooking oil into a medium sized frying pan. The oil should be about ¼ inch deep.
Heat the oil to medium hot.
Place the tortillas in the oil and fry for about 20 seconds on both sides. Fry them one at a time. Don't allow the tortilla to harden.
Drain the tortillas of excess oil on paper towles and set aside.
SUNNY SIDE UP EGGS
Use the same cooking oil that you used to fry the tortillas to cook the eggs. Maintain the oil medium hot.
Add two eggs to the hot oil and slightly tilt the pan to one side so that the eggs set closely together.
Cook until the white are just cooked through and the yolks are still runny.
SERVING
Place 2 tortillas on your serving plate and add a good sized spoonful of refried beans.
Gently place the eggs on the tortillas.
Spoon the warm spicy tomato salsa over the eggs.
Garnish the beans with 3 tortilla chips.
Serve immediately.

Notes

Cooking Notes
Optional
Substitutions
You do not need to remove the seeds and veins from the chile.
You do not need to seed or peel the tomatoes.
If the salsa is a little runny, simmer until it reaches the desired consistency.
Add a pinch of crumbled cotija cheese or ranchero cheese.
Serve on tostadas if you don't have any corn tortillas.
If you want to add some color to the dish, sprinkle a pinch of finely chopped cilantro over the eggs.
You can top with crumbled queso fresco.
You can substitute jalapeño peppers for the serrano peppers.
White onion is preferable but you can use yellow onion if that's what you have on hand.
You can substitute Mexican oregano for the thyme.
High-quality eggs make the dish even better. Try making it with organic free-range eggs.