This is a quick variation on a Mexican favorite, Huevos Rancheros without the beans.
To start the dish, you blend 2 italian plum tomatoes with a chipotle pepper and some olive oil and capers in the blender, for the sauce. The sauce is then drizzled on the bottom of the dish and then the microwaved taquitos are placed around the dish and some capers are sprinkled over the guacamole in the center with the fried eggs on top, garnished with cilantro and more of the chipotle tomato caper sauce around the plate.
Variation: a handful of shredded cheddar underneath the lacy edged fried eggs, over the guacamole for a bit of a surprise.
This is a hearty breakfast that two people can share if wanting to eat light. The dish is very high in iron becuase of the corn tortillas and good fats in the guacamole and the eggs are very good for you. Just work out later or eat half of it as suggested. Minnesota’s farm fresh eggs from free range chickens are best for this dish along with some wonderful local cheese and sour cream if your waist and calorie count/weight watchers points can tolerate it. You are already killing it (your diet) by eating the taquitos but I reason they aren’t that bad, since they are microwaved or if you choose, baked – in order to save some calories.
I used already made chicken taquitos for this because I didn’t want to eat “lunch”, grin. ( I wanted us to have BREAKFAST? In other words, hand-made taquitos take like ALL day. ) Phooey to the purists, I just don’t have time to make them from scratch. And you know who you are Pawel.
(I can make homemade corn tortillas, but that’s another time, another blog-post.) You can find a couple of excellent recipes for tortillas and taquitos at www.allrecipes.com- my secret is plastic zip lock bags with the sides cut off and a tortilla press.
Ditto the guacamole if you don’t feel like making it from scratch. It’s great if you have fresh avocado, some lemon and diced sweet onion however, Sam’s club carries some ready-made guacamole in convenient individual bags at a reasonable price.
Ingredients:
4 farm fresh eggs, 1 to 1 1/2 Tbsp. Capers, 1 chipotle chile (canned, adobo-style), guacamole, 8 chicken taquitos, 2 italian plum tomatoes, 1 tsp. olive oil, 1 Tbsp. Cilantro-chopped, 1/3 cup cheese and salt and pepper to taste.
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Some variations of garnish I played with are shown.
Chipotle caper sauce drizzled over chicken taquitos, and guacamole garnished with cilantro
I love huevos ranchero. Your recipe sounds and looks terrific. Muchos besos.
Hungry Mom.