Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Huevos Rancheros

Mom sent me to a cooking class to learn some different breakfast foods. She told me that Huevos Rancheros is one of my dad's favorite things. Not that I can cook authentic mexican food... but these were pretty good anyway! I made them for my family and they all had seconds. So I take that to mean they were decent.

{ingredients}
6 eggs
6 corn tortillas
2 cups black beans- drained
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp chili powder
1 small can (4 oz) chili peppers- chopped
1 large can chili verde sauce
2 c. salsa
1 1/2 c. queso fresco (found in the normal cheese isle)
salt and pepper

{directions}
In a skillet, lightly brushed with oil, toast corn tortillas. In a small saucepan, combine the beans, cumin, chili powder, and chopped chili peppers and heat (simmer) until bubbles.
In another saucepan, combine the salsa and the verde together and bring to a bubble. In the same skillet, spray with nonstick spray and cook each egg until sunny side up until the yolk is semi firm- salt and pepper the eggs.
Place the tortilla on a plate, spread 1/2 c. of beans over it. Next add the egg and smother with the verde salsa. Finally, sprinkle generously with queso.

*Tip #1: keep the oven at a low temperature to keep tortillas warm. 
*Tip #2: when cooking in bulk, cook the eggs until they are almost done. Let them finish cooking in the warming oven while you prepare the rest and are ready to serve. Nothing is worse than cold breakfast foods...

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