Huevos rancheros

  • Vegetarian

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for breakfast
  • Good for lunch
  • Good for dinner

Four servings of corn tortillas with black beans, salsa and a fried egg.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,680 g

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Ingredients

  • 240 gTortillas, ready-to-bake or -fry, corn, without added salt
  • 500 gBeans, black, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt
  • 10 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 100 gOnions, raw
  • 25 gPeppers, jalapeno, raw
  • 10 gGarlic, raw
  • 500 gTomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average
  • 100 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 3 gSpices, cumin seed
  • 6 gSalt, table
  • 240 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
  • 10 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 15 gCoriander (cilantro) leaves, raw

Method

  1. Finely chop onion, jalapeño and garlic, dice the tomatoes and chop cilantro. Keep the pre-cooked beans ready separately.
  2. Heat 10 g oil for the sauce to 170 °C. Fry onion and jalapeño for 4 minutes, then garlic and cumin for 30 seconds. Add tomatoes, water and salt; simmer at 92 °C for 10 minutes until the salsa thickens.
  3. Stir beans into half the salsa and heat for 4 minutes. Warm tortillas dry for 30 seconds per side in a second pan at 180 °C and keep them covered.
  4. In a separate pan heat 20 g oil and fry four eggs in it for 3 minutes at 160 °C until the whites set. Top each tortilla with beans, salsa, an egg and cilantro, then serve immediately.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
1,879.7 kcal
Protein
95.3 g
Fat
53.5 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
267.7 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
65.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
12 g
Sodium
2,745.5 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
6.9 g

Per serving

Energy
469.9 kcal
Protein
23.8 g
Fat
13.4 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
66.9 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
16.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
3 g
Sodium
686.4 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.7 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
111.9 kcal
Protein
5.7 g
Fat
3.2 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
15.9 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
3.9 g
Saturated fatty acids
0.72 g
Sodium
163.4 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.41 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • Some ingredient quantities use documented estimates or household-measure assumptions.
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Egg

May contain: Gluten, Milk

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal