Huevos Rancheros

Somehow, despite our undying love for both breakfast foods and Mexican meals, Megan and I had never made huevos rancheros. We finally rectified that unfortunate oversight a few weeks back, and the results were predictably amazing since it combines one of our favorite ways to cook - throwing in every pepper we can find - and our newfound love of poached eggs.

In case you've missed our previous love letters to the most important meal of the day, you can check out some of our breakfast greatest hits:

Breakfast Skillet
Breakfast Burritos
Breakfast Sandwiches
Breakfast Revisited
Breakfast Revisited Again!

Our heuvos rancheros breakfast starts by dicing up red bell pepper, poblanos, anaheims, jalapenos, onions, and garlic. Instead of fresh tomatoes, we decided to go with canned, since they have more liquid and are much easier to use in a dish like this without sacrificing flavor.

All the main ingredients - minus the tomatoes - are first heated up in a skillet to soften and let the flavors develop a bit.

Next goes in the canned tomatoes once the peppers have softened.

Mix it through and allow to cook for a few minutes so the peppers soak up the liquid.

In addition to the canned tomatoes, we're also going to use thick slices of fresh roma tomatoes.

The tomatoes are set down on the top layer, and then we push aside part of the pepper filling mixture to create small wells. Crack a few eggs and drop them into the wells so they'll heat up in the liquid at the bottom of the skillet - sort of halfway between poached eggs and fried eggs.

Throw a cover over the skillet so the eggs cook through properly and are flavored by all the wonderful spicy ingredients.

Like a breakfast burrito, this "filling" of vegetables and eggs goes into a flour tortilla. You may want to coat your tortilla with sour cream, but honestly this is moist enough that it isn't necessary with all the tomatoes.

Be sure to get at least one egg in each tortilla, along with a generous helping of tomatoes and peppers, and then top with some shredded cheese. Wrap it up and dig in!