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
- ½ 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
- ½ 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
9 comments
This would be a great breakfast treat! Love the flavors…what a great SRC selection.
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!
Muy bien! 😀 These look fantastic!! My hubby would LOVE these!! Great choice and nice job for the SRC! 🙂
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.
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!
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
This would be a perfect start to Cinco de mayo!
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!