Chilaquiles Rojos
Mexico's breakfast for using up yesterday's tortillas — crisp fried tortilla wedges tossed in a red chilli and tomato salsa, topped with fried eggs, crumbled cheese, cream, onion and coriander.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 12 corn tortillas, a day old, each cut into 6 wedges
- 250 ml sunflower oil, for frying
- to taste salt
- 3 dried guajillo chillies
- 200 ml boiling water
- 500 g ripe tomatoes
- 1 medium white onion (half for the salsa, half thinly sliced)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 4 eggs
- 80 g queso fresco or feta, crumbled
- 100 ml soured cream
- 2 tbsp coriander, chopped
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 5196 kcal · P 99.6g · C 370.3g · F 375g
Estimated from 11 of 12 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Heat the oil in a deep frying pan to 180°C and fry the tortilla wedges in batches for 1–2 minutes until crisp and golden. Drain on kitchen paper and salt lightly. Day-old tortillas fry crisper and soak up less oil.
- 2Toast the chillies in a dry pan for 20 seconds a side, pull out the stems and seeds and soak them in the boiling water for 15 minutes.
- 3Blend the chillies and their soaking water with the tomatoes, half the onion, the garlic and a good pinch of salt until smooth.
- 4Pour all but 1 tbsp of the oil out of the pan into a heatproof bowl. Fry the sauce in the pan over medium heat for 8–10 minutes until slightly thickened and darker.
- 5In a second pan, fry the eggs in a little of the poured-off oil until the whites are set and the yolks still runny.
- 6Add the tortilla chips to the simmering sauce and toss for 1 minute, so they are coated but keep some crunch; left to sit, they turn mushy.
- 7Divide among plates and top each with a fried egg, the cheese, soured cream, sliced onion and coriander. Serve at once.
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Questions and answers
How long does Chilaquiles Rojos take to make?
About 45 minutes: 15 min prep and 30 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Chilaquiles Rojos?
12 ingredients: corn tortillas, sunflower oil, salt, dried guajillo chillies, boiling water, ripe tomatoes, white onion (half for the salsa, garlic, eggs, queso fresco or feta, soured cream, coriander.
How many servings does this Chilaquiles Rojos recipe make?
4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Chilaquiles Rojos?
About 1299 kcal, with 24.9 g protein, 92.6 g carbohydrate and 93.7 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Chilaquiles Rojos recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Chilaquiles Rojos?
Chilaquiles Rojos comes from Mexican cuisine.
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