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Breakfast for dinner is always in our meal plan rotation. Thursdays roll around and it just sounds so comforting and hits the spot every time. Normally I lean more towards pancakes or omelets, but for this BFD (that we ate on a Saturday – double BFD dose that week!) we mixed it up with huevos rancheros!
I picked huevos rancheros for my Secret Recipe Club reveal from Cookin’ Mimi. Micha writes the blog and has a serious love for cooking. Her recipe collection is massive. Great if you need inspiration, but dang it was hard to pick what I wanted to make! After browsing through her breakfast recipes I settled on huevos rancheros. I’ve had it once or twice in my life and had never made it at home. No better time than now to change that, right? I even had an extra taste tester to share the recipe with!
Jacob’s brother came into town and spent the weekend with us. We spent a morning at the zoo, then later that evening had these for dinner. And they were perfection!
The dinner came together in a snap. As the chorizo was cooking away I prepped all the toppings, warmed the refried beans and tortillas, then 5 minutes before we were going to eat I fried up the eggs. My little kitchen helper was eagerly learning how to make huevos rancheros as well. Totally.
I love sharing meals with people. And it’s just so fun to have a big spread at the table for dinner time. Everyone adds what they want on their plate. I opted for everything on my huevos rancheros – tortilla, refried beans, egg, chorizo, cheese, salsa, avocados, and then at the last minute added sour cream. A great choice.
In case you wanted to know the english to spanish translation for huevos rancheros, it means rancher’s eggs (so the internet says 🙂 ). Now go make some!
Huevos Rancheros
Ingredients
- 12 oz chorizo
- 15 ounce can refried beans or 2 cups homemade
- 1 14 oz can salsa style or Tex-Mex fire roasted tomatoes
- 8 corn tortillas
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 4-8 eggs
- 1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar
- optional toppings: avocado, sour cream
Instructions
- Begin by browning the chorizo in a medium pan until fully cooked through. Keep warm on low.
- Warm refried beans on low in a small pan until warmed through.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat, add the oil and fry the eggs (I cooked 2 per adult, 1 per kid).
- Prepare all other toppings: diced avocado, sour cream, shredded cheddar, salsa and warm tortillas.
- When everything is ready top a tortilla with a thin layer of refried beans, add the fried egg, a spoonful of chorizo, salsa, cheese, avocado and sour cream. I ate it with a fork, the guys ate it taco style. We all really enjoyed it!
Huevos Rancheros
recipe slightly adapted from here
Serves around 4
Ingredients
- 12 ounces chorizo
- 15 ounce can refried beans or 2 cups homemade
- 1 14 ounce can salsa style or Tex-Mex fire roasted tomatoes
- 4-8 corn tortillas
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 4-8 eggs
- 1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar
- optional toppings: avocado, sour cream
Directions
- Begin by browning the chorizo in a medium pan until fully cooked through. Keep warm on low.
- Warm refried beans on low in a small pan until warmed through.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat, add the oil and fry the eggs (I cooked 2 per adult, 1 per kid).
- Prepare all other toppings: diced avocado, sour cream, shredded cheddar, salsa and warm tortillas.
- When everything is ready top a tortilla with a thin layer of refried beans, add the fried egg, a spoonful of chorizo, salsa, cheese, avocado and sour cream. I ate it with a fork, the guys ate it taco style. We all really enjoyed it!
Have you ever had or made huevos rancheros? What toppings would YOU pick? Hope you had a wonderful weekend!
Heather
I love how you chose to serve this as a “build your own” bar. It’s like breakfast taco night? Anyway, looks wonderful… a great choice for this month’s reveal!
This would be a perfect start to Cinco de mayo!
I love the awesome photos of your family and your Huevos Rancheros will be a big hit here at The Cottage. It is fun cooking with you in the SRC and have a great week!
Miz Helen
Yum! I don’t even think of these type of recipes as breakfast recipes though as that is just not going to happen in our house. For us this would be weekend lunch!
Major yum! We do breakfast for dinner every week too! Its such a yummy, easy dinner. Love this mix up. Hooray for the zoo! We went Saturday too.
Muy bien! 😀 These look fantastic!! My hubby would LOVE these!! Great choice and nice job for the SRC! 🙂
Your Huevos Rancheros looks great! We had you this month and picked your Lemon Poppyseed Bread 🙂 Thanks for a great recipe!!
So glad you liked the bread! I tried to comment on it but not sure if it came through (something went funky on my phone). Have an awesome day Nicole!
This would be a great breakfast treat! Love the flavors…what a great SRC selection.