Huevos Rancheros.
You can cook Huevos Rancheros using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Huevos Rancheros
- You need of olive oil.
- It's 1 of onion, roughly chopped.
- It's 2 of garlic cloves, finely chopped.
- It's 2 of red peppers, roughly chopped.
- You need 2 tsp of chipotle paste.
- Prepare 2 of bay leaves.
- You need 1 handful of coriander, leaves and stalks roughly chopped separately.
- You need 2 of ripe tomatoes, diced.
- You need 2 of x 400g (14oz) cans of chopped tomatoes.
- Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
- Prepare 4 of eggs.
- It's 50 g (2 oz) of Cheddar cheese, grated.
- Prepare of salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Prepare of Street Taco tortilla wraps or crusty bread, toasted, to serve.
Huevos Rancheros step by step
- Heat a good slug of oil in a large pan (with a lid for later) on a low–medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, peppers, chipotle paste and bay leaves and season with salt and pepper. You can also add the chopped coriander stalks. Fry the vegetables for about 15 minutes until starting to soften..
- Add the fresh and canned tomatoes, then stir in the sugar to balance the acidity of the tomatoes. Mix together and cook for another 10 minutes, or until it is reducing down to a nice, rich sauce. Taste and adjust the seasoning..
- Use a food processor to blend about three-quarters of the sauce until completely smooth. Return it to the pan and mix in..
- 4 Preheat the grill..
- Now, make four spaces in the sauce, evenly spaced out, with a wooden spoon. Crack each egg into its own space. Put the lid on and cook for about 4 minutes until the eggs are almost, but not completely, cooked. This is important. Take the pan off the heat while they’re still undercooked..
- Sprinkle with the cheese and flash under a hot grill for a few minutes to melt the cheese and finish off the eggs in Huevos Rancheros..
- Finally, sprinkle with the coriander leaves and serve with warm tortillas or some nice crusty toasted bread in the final step of cooking Huevos Rancheros..
