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huevos rancheros

A traditional Mexican style breakfast served over warmed corn tortilla, smashed bean puree and vibrant pico de gallo finished with a fried egg make a great comforting breakfast
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time25 minutes
Course: Breakfast
Keyword: avocado, breakfast, huevos rancheros, mexican, pico de gallo, ranchers eggs, tortilla
Servings: 2
Author: the communal feast

Ingredients

  • For the beans
  • 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 can black beans rinse and drained (or preferred beans)
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tablespoon of cilantro
  • pinch of salt and pepper
  • 1 lime juiced
  • Pico de gallo
  • 2 ripe tomatoes diced and seeds removed
  • 1/4 cup red onion diced into small pieces
  • 1/4 cup cilantro chopped
  • 1/2 lime juiced, reserve the other half for garnish
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • Remainder
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 corn tortillas
  • optional garnish: avocado jalapeƱos, radish, cilantro, cotja cheese

Instructions

  • Start by making the beans, bring 1 tablespoon of olive oil to medium heat in a saucepan. Once warmed add beans and cook 2-3 minutes. Add garlic, cumin salt and pepper cooking until fragrant about 2 minutes. Let cool slightly and transfer to a blender to puree adding lime juice, remaining olive oil and cilantro. (feel free to do this all in the pan using a potato masher or in a food processor if you like) mixture to have some remaining chunks of beans and be a little creamy. Add water to bring to desired consistency if too thick. Set aside.
  • Make the pico de gallo by combined all of the ingredients together and set aside until ready to assemble.
  • In the same saucepan, heat olive oil and bring to a low-medium heat to fry eggs sunny side up. Cook until the egg whites are set about 5 minutes. Generally you want the eggs to be a little runny when penetrated to mix with the other ingredients.
  • While the eggs are cooking, toss 4 tortillas in the oven on broil to warm slightly about 2 minutes. Remove when they start to crisp around the outside and grill marks appear.
  • Place 2 tortillas on each plate with a bit of an overlap in the middle, spread the bean mixture on the bottom followed by the eggs and pico. Garnish with optional ingredients of your choice and serve!