Authentic Huevos Rancheros Recipe

Recipe for easy authentic "huevos rancheros" a Mexican breakfast dish prepared with two sunnyside-up eggs on fried corn tortillas covered in a spicy tomato salsa with refried beans on the side. A healthy and filling way to start your day.

📝 Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 3 Roma tomatoes (plum tomatoes)
• 1 serrano chile
• 1/4 medium white onion
• 1 clove garlic
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
• 1/2 cup cooking oil + 1 tablespoon
• 2 or 3 tablespoons of water
• 4 corn tortillas
• Salt to taste (for the salsa)
• 1/2 cup refried beans
• 6 tortilla chips (to garnish the beans)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1SALSA
2. 2Roughly chop the tomatoes, onion, garlic and serrano chile.
3. 3Add to your blender jar.
4. 4Add 1/2 teaspoon thyme to the blender jar.
5. 5Add 2 tablespoons of water.
6. 6Blend until smooth. About 1 minute.
7. 7Heat 1 tablespoon of cooking oil in a saucepan to hot.
8. 8Carefully, pour the contents of the blender into the saucepan with the hot oil. (Be careful, the liquid tends to spatter.)
9. 9Simmer for about 10 minutes until the salsa is deep red in color and has thickened slightly.
10. 10Salt to taste.
11. 11TORTILLAS
12. 12Pour 1/2 cup of cooking oil into a medium sized frying pan. The oil should be about 1/4 inch deep.
13. 13Heat the oil to medium hot.
14. 14Place the tortillas in the oil and fry for about 20 seconds on both sides. Fry them one at a time. Don't allow the tortilla to harden.
15. 15Drain the tortillas of excess oil on paper towles and set aside.
16. 16SUNNY SIDE UP EGGS
17. 17Use the same cooking oil that you used to fry the tortillas to cook the eggs. Maintain the oil medium hot.
18. 18Add two eggs to the hot oil and slightly tilt the pan to one side so that the eggs set closely together.
19. 19Cook until the white are just cooked through and the yolks are still runny.
20. 20SERVING
21. 21Place 2 tortillas on your serving plate and add a good sized spoonful of refried beans.
22. 22Gently place the eggs on the tortillas.
23. 23Spoon the warm spicy tomato salsa over the eggs.
24. 24Garnish the beans with 3 tortilla chips.
25. 25Serve immediately.