Easy Skillet Chilaquiles are a delicious breakfast recipe to use up leftover corn tortillas with homemade corn chips (or use store bought) simmered in tomato sauce topped with cheese, eggs and lots of toppings.
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How to make chilaquiles
Chilaquiles (pronounced “chee-lah-keel-ehs”) is a great breakfast recipe that is easy to whip up whether enjoying by yourself or making a big batch to share with your friends.
To make this chilaquiles recipe simply cover crispy corn chips with a flavor-packed sauce, throw an egg on it, then top with all sorts of different chilaquiles toppings. If you like migas or huevos rancheros you’ll love serving this chilaquiles recipe!
Ingredients
- Corn chips – tortillas hanging around the fridge a little long? Fry them up to make homemade corn chips and use them in chilaquiles! A great way to save money while minimizing food waste. Alternately, if you don’t have stale tortillas pop fresh tortillas in a 200 degree oven until dried. You can also use store-bought chips. Look for thick and sturdy corn chips so they’ll hold up to the sauce and retain a nice texture.
- Fire Roasted Tomato Sauce – Muir Glen Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes with Medium Green Chilies, onions, garlic and spices are made into a quick sauce that tastes like it’s been simmering for days. But really it’s just been through a quick whiz in the blender.
- Eggs
- Garlic
- Onion
- Spices – cumin, chili powder, cilantro
- Cheese – crumbled queso fresco or whatever cheese you’d like.
- Toppings – avocado, guacamole, sour cream, radishes, pickled onions, sliced chili peppers, lime wedges, hot sauce, etc.
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Step by step instructions
- Fry stales tortillas in a large skillet until crispy to make homemade corn chips.
- Blend canned tomatoes with garlic, onion, cilantro and spices to make Fire Roasted Rojo Sauce.
- Warm sauce in the same skillet as the chips were fried in and toss chips with sauce once warm.
- Add cheese, sliced onion and eggs.
- Bake in preheated oven until cheese is bubbly and eggs are cooked through.
- Top as desired – cilantro, onion, radish, avocado, cilantro, etc.
- Enjoy!
Customize
Easy skillet chilaquiles are more of a method. Customize this recipe to your personal taste and whatever’s hanging out in the fridge.
- Instead of baked eggs, serve with fried, scrambled, poached or sunnyside up eggs. Or skip the egg altogether!
- Leftover chicken, steak, sausage or pork in the fridge? Slice up any leftover meat and toss into the skillet with the sauce.
- Like it spicy? Add jalapeno to the red sauce before blending. Or any combination of reconstituted dried chilis, jarred ancho chilis or spicy chili powder.
- Instead of the mild, slightly melty queso fresco feel free to substitute any cheese you like.
- Use whatever sauce you have! Instead of this tomato sauce based rojo version, make with jarred verde salsa or mole sauce.
- Skip frying tortillas and use tortilla chips instead! Even better if you find an opened bag of stale tortilla chips to save from the garbage can.
- Don’t want to turn on the oven? Skip the bake and cook on the stovetop only and serve with eggs on the side instead of baked eggs.
- Use a casserole dish to layer the fried tortillas in a large 9×13 casserole and double the recipe to make it for a crowd. Or, triple the recipe and make it as a sheet pan breakfast for a crowd.
More about Muir Glen and Community Food Co Ops
My love for food and cooking is based on the connection that happens in the kitchen, around the table AND at the source of ingredients. And both Muir Glen and Community Food Co Op grocers understand the full circle connection.
Muir Glen believes that the best tasting tomatoes are grown with the entire ecosystem in mind. When a Muir Glen tomato doesn’t make the tasty-cut it goes to the composting facility with other tomato waste to create rich, organically certified compost. Which in turn is given back to the farmers to give their soil the nutrients and moisture it needs to grow the great tomatoes.
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📖 Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 14.5 ounce cans fire roasted tomatoes Muir Glen
- 2 medium garlic cloves peeled
- 1 medium red onion peeled and quartered
- 1 bunch fresh cilantro
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon mild chili powder
- ¼ cup canola oil
- 9 6 inch corn tortillas stale
- 5 large eggs
- ½ cup queso fresco cheese crumbled, about 4 ounces
- 3 small radishes thinly sliced (optional)
- 1 medium avocado diced or sliced (optional)
- 1 small lime cut into wedges (optional)
- 1 small jalapeno pepper thinly sliced (optional)
- ¼ cup Crema Mexicana or sour cream (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a blender or food processor add diced tomatoes, garlic, half the red onion, half the cilantro (leaves and stems), cumin and chili powder then blend on high until smooth. This quick Fire Roasted Rojo Sauce can be made in advance and stored covered in the fridge.2 14.5 ounce cans fire roasted tomatoes, 2 medium garlic cloves, 1 medium red onion, 1 bunch fresh cilantro, ½ teaspoon ground cumin, 1 teaspoon mild chili powder
- Stack tortillas and cut into wedges with a sharp knife. Heat oil in a large cast iron skillet over medium high heat until smoking. Add a single layer of tortilla wedges, being careful not to crowd the pan and fry until puffy, golden and crisped about 3 minutes. Flip to finish other side, about 1 minute more, before removing to a paper towel lined plate or drying rack to drain. Add a sprinkle of coarse salt while still warm and continue frying in batches until all tortillas are complete.9 6 inch corn tortillas, ¼ cup canola oil
- Wipe excess oil out of pan and return to medium high heat. Add the Fire Roasted Rojo Sauce to the skillet and bring it to a simmer. Add the chips, tossing to coat. Afterwards season to taste with salt. Remove from the heat. Slice the remaining red onion and sprinkle half of it on the tortillas reserving the rest for garnish. With the back of a large spoon make five indents in the sauce then crack the eggs into them. Sprinkle evenly with cheese.5 large eggs, ½ cup queso fresco cheese
- Bake in preheated oven until eggs are opaque and cooked through, 12-18 minutes.
- Remove and garnish with reserved red onion and cilantro, radishes, avocado and a squeeze of lime (or however you desire!).3 small radishes, 1 medium avocado, 1 small lime, 1 small jalapeno pepper, ¼ cup Crema Mexicana or sour cream
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Virginia
Yum, Tristin- right up my breakfast alley! I did use the tortilla chips, and added some sausage. Thanks!
Virginia
ONE armed MAMA
Perfect!! Glad you liked them ☺️??