Lars’s Huevos Rancheros

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Description:

Huevos Rancheros (Spanish for “eggs ranch-style”) is a traditional Mexican country breakfast. The dish has spread throughout the Americas.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup red spanish onion, chopped
• 2 small hot peppers (i.e. Habanero), seeded and chopped
• 1 tsp chili powder
  

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• 2 cups plum tomatoes (1 Lbs), chopped
• ¼ cup red bell pepper, chopped
• ¼ cup green bell pepper, chopped
  

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• 1 cup olive oil
• 4 – 6″ corn tortilla
  

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• 8 eggs

Procedure (Ranchero Sauce):

1. On cutting board, chop onion and chili pepper. Set aside in small bowl. Add chili powder to bowl.
2. Chop tomatoes, bell peppers and set aside in medium bowl.
3. To prepare the ranchero sauce, in a large skillet, over medium-high heat, heat 2 Tbs. oil till hot, but not smoking. Add the onion/hot pepper mixture and sauté with wooden spoon until onion is softened, about 3 minutes.
4. Add the tomato/pepper mixture, and reduce to a low heat. Simmer for about 10 minutes, sauté until the sauce begins to thicken up.

Procedure (Tortillas & Eggs):

1. In large skillet, over medium high heat, lightly fry both sides of each tortilla in 1 Tbs. of oil. Place on serving plate and repeat, adding more oil to skillet as necessary.
2. While frying tortillas, in second large skillet, over medium high heat, heat 2 Tbs. oil till hot but not smoking. Fry 2 eggs at a time, until they are “sunny-side up”. If you want the yolks cooked a little more, see Lars’s Sunny-Side Up Eggs.
3. Place cooked eggs on tortilla, cover with the ranchero sauce, repeat for remaining eggs, adding more oil to skillet as necessary.

Advanced Preparation:

• Ranchero Sauce can be prepared in advance and refrigerated till ready to use. As you’ll need to re-heat, you may only want to simmer (Step 4) for 5 minutes and re-heat for 5 minutes or until it begins to thicken up.

Tips, Notes, and Variations:

• Try it will sliced avocado, shredded Monterey Jack cheese, refried beans, or fried potatoes.
• To make this dish into something you can eat on the go, scramble the eggs, add the eggs and sauce to the heated the tortilla and roll the tortilla into a wrap. You can also substitute a flour tortilla for wrap. You may also need to use slightly larger tortillas or you’ll have a little left-over.

Tags: eggs, Tex-Mex Cuisine