Huevos Motuleños
Huevos Motuleños is a vibrant and flavorful breakfast dish from the Yucatán Peninsula that’s as colorful as it is satisfying. It starts with a crispy corn tortilla layered with creamy black beans, topped with sunny-side-up eggs, and smothered in a rich tomato sauce. What sets it apart are its unexpected touches, sweet plantains, green peas, salty ham, and crumbled cheese.
Equipment
- 2 frying pans
- 2 saucepans
- hand blender
Ingredients
For the tomato salsa
- ½ white onion peeled
- 1 garlic clove peeled
- 3 medium tomatoes
- 1 habanero chilli or scotch bonet
- 1 cup water
For the black refried beans
- 1 can black beans unsalted water or 2 cups of freshly cooked
For the Motuleños Eggs
- 1 ripen plantain
- 4 slices ham good quality
- 1 cup frozen peas thawed
- 1 cup cotija or queso fresco, grated
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 8 corn tortillas cold, from the day before
- 8 medium eggs
Instructions
To make the tomato salsa
- In a saucepan place the tomatoes cut in half, ½ an onion, the peeled garlic clove and habanero chilli. Add 2 cups of water. Bring to a boil and low the heat down. Simmer for 10 min over low heat.
- Then turn the heat off and set aside to cool down. Once cool down, remove the vegetables from the water. Discard the water.
- Place the tomatoes, onion, garlic and just a small piece of the scotch bonnet in a blender and add ½ teaspoon salt. Blend until smooth. Place the salsa back into the saucepan and heat it before serving it.
To make the refried beans
- Remove some of the liquid.
- Chop ¼ of a white onion and a garlic clove. Very finely. Heat 4 tablespoon of vegetable oil and add the onion and the garlic. Fry for 2 minutes to medium heat. Then add the beans and add 1 teaspoon salt. Bring them to a boil and then mash with a potato or bean masher. Set aside and reheat just before using.
To fry the plantain
- Peel the plantain and then cut it into round or oval slices (see the picture below).
- Heat a frying pan to medium heat and add 3 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Fry the plantain slices, for around less than a minute on each side, making sure they don't burn. Set aside ready to use.
To make the Huevos Motuleños
- Before start frying the tortillas and the eggs, make sure that the rest of the components for these eggs are ready. Grate cheese, defrost the peas, cut the ham in small portions and fry it, refried beans ready and warm, plantain fried and tomato salsa ready. Remember, try to have everything warm.
- Then start by frying the tortillas (2 per person). In a frying pan add ½ cup vegetable oil to medium heat and fry the tortillas individually and set aside.
- At the same time, try to fry the eggs, two for each person or you can do this after frying the tortillas.
- Then it is just a matter of putting it all together. On a plate, place two fried tortillas and spread some refried beans. Then on top, place the fried egg and pour some habanero salsa on top. Then scatter some peas, ham and cheese on top and place some fried plantain slices on the side.
- Serve immediately and enjoy with a nice black coffee.
Notes
If you want, you can mix the ham and the peas with the habanero salsa. I love place them on the top and serve the ham as a whole slice, just like in the picture. Then the person it is eating them, know what's on it.