Description
A quick and easy twist on the traditional huevos rancheros – only requiring 10 minutes and 1 pan, perfect for a weekday breakfast! Delicious, filling, and super satisfying!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter
- 1 16 ounce jar of your fave chunky salsa
- optional: hot sauce
- 2 to 4 eggs
- salt and pepper
- 1 can gluten free refried beans
- 4 tostadas*
- Optional Toppings
- extra hot sauce
- Cilantro leaves, chopped
- crumbled cotija cheese – or other Mexican cheese (omit to keep dairy free)
Instructions
- Heat salsa: Heat a large nonstick skillet with a tight fitting lid over medium high heat, add the oil. Once the oil is warm add the salsa, stir in a little hot sauce if you want it to be spicier. If you salsa is thick than add 1 to 2 tablespoons of water to the salsa so that it has a little room to cook down. Allow the salsa to come to a simmer.
- Cook the eggs: Add the eggs on top of the salsa (only use as many eggs as you plan to eat). Cover the pan with the lid and allow the eggs to cook until the whites are mostly solid but the yolks are still runny, about 5 to 8 minutes – keep an eye on them. When they are done uncover and remove from the heat. Sprinkle the eggs with salt and pepper.
- Heat the refried beans: While the eggs are cooking add some of the refried beans to a small microwave bowl, gently heat up the beans. (keep in mind you won’t nee all of the refried beans, about 1 tablespoon per tostada).
- Assemble: Spread about 1 tablespoon of the warm refried beans onto each tostada. Spoon over some of the salsa on each tostada, gently place the fried egg on top of each tostada. Top with any of the toppings you prefer (cilantro leaves, cotija cheese, or hot sauce) and serve immediately.
Notes
*Tostadas: Tostadas are a fried/baked corn tortilla shell that’s crispy. I found some prepackaged in the Mexican section at my local grocery store. If you can’t find them you can just make tortilla chips work, it will be even messier to eat but still as delicious!
Serving size: We usually make 2 huevos rancheros per person and we are always really full and held over until lunch from them. Depending on how hungry you are will determine on how many you want to make – I often find that I could have been satisfied with just one lol, but like I said it depends on how hungry you are.
