Huevos Motulenos
What is huevos motulenos?
Huevos Motulenos is a type of breakfast, originated in the town of Motul (Yucatan which is a Mexican state). Huevos Motulenos is a dish made with eggs on tortillas with black beans and cheese. Ham, plantains, peas, salsa picante are the other ingredients. Fried plantains is a traditional side-dish. This dish is an uptown sophisticated type of breakfast.
Available at places: Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Oaxaca , Cuba, Costa Rica.
Recipe of huevos motulenos
Ingredients (4 servings)
- 8 corn tortillas
- 1/4 cup canola oil (approximately)
- 2 teaspoons butter
- 1 cup diced ham
- 2 cups cooked black beans – pureed
- 1 cup peas – thawed if frozen
- 8 large eggs
- 1/2 cup shredded queso fresco cheese
For Yucatan-Style Salsa:
- 4 habanero chiles – charred/seeded/mashed
- the juice of 4 key limes
- 4 cloves garlic – charred/peeled/mashed
- 8 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Steps
- Make salsa by mixing all the ingredients. Set it aside.
- Prehaet oven to around 200 degrees.
- Add oil to a fry pan. When oil is hot fry each tortilla until crisp and soft at edges.
- Place the cooked tortilla in the oven to keep warm.
- On a high heat, melt the butter in a separate fry pan.
- Add the ham to it, cook until thoroughly heated and partially brown. Cover and keep aside in a bowl.
- Cook the beans in the same pan on a medium fire . Stir often until they become thoroughly warm.
- With a thin layer of oil in another frying pan, fry eggs on a medium heat (while the beans are cooking)
- Remove the tortillas from oven.
- Increase the oven’s temperature to 350 degrees.
- On a baking sheet, make each serving on top of tortillas as follows-
- a layer of black beans
- 1 fried egg
- a smearing of salsa
- equal amounts of ham and peas
- and equal amounts of grated cheese
- Place the baking sheet in the oven, cook for 5 minutes until the cheese melts.
Serve warm, each serving has two tortillas.
Nutrition facts about Huevos Motulenos
- Calories 802
- Calories from Fat 492 (61%)
- Total Fat 54.7g 84%
- Saturated Fat 9.4g 46%
- Monounsaturated Fat 32.4g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 9.4g
- Trans Fat 0.0g
- Cholesterol 428mg 142%
- Sodium 256mg 10%
- Potassium 819mg 23%
- Total Carbohydrate 56.0g 18%
- Dietary Fiber 13.2g 52%
- Sugars 6.3g
- Protein 26.1g 52%
( Amount Per Serving and valus in %DV )
Almost all the nutrition needed by humans is well inside an egg (except Vitamin C). It has the highest quality proteins. So, basically Huevos divorciados is very nutritious . It is low in sodium and has minerals and vitamins.Egg protein has the right amount of Amino Acids required by human body in order to build a strong body.You would like to make it again and again as it is tasty also.
- Manali Misra
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