Mexican
Chilaquiles Verdes
Chilaquiles Verdes is Mexican home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 12 corn tortillas
- 2 cups tomatillo salsa verde
- 4 large eggs
- 3/4 cup crumbled queso fresco
- 1/2 white onion
- 1/2 cup Mexican crema
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 3 tbsp neutral oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Cut the corn tortillas into wedges and fry in the hot oil in batches until crisp and golden, then drain on paper towels.
- Warm the salsa verde in a wide skillet over medium heat until it simmers.
- Add the fried tortilla chips and toss just until lightly coated but still slightly crisp, about 1 minute.
- Meanwhile fry the eggs in a separate pan to your liking, about 3 minutes for runny yolks.
- Divide the chilaquiles among plates and top each with a fried egg.
- Scatter thin onion rings, queso fresco, and cilantro over the top and drizzle with crema.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chilaquiles Verdes carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Arroz con Pollo |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Arroz con Pollo |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, Dairy, and Egg
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chilaquiles Verdes takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on tortilla, egg, tomatillo, and cheese.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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