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Get your day started with those delicious mexican divorced eggs. Drizzled with two types of sauces and served with refried beans those eggs are a nice choice for a sunday brunch.
Huevos divorciados (in english: divorced eggs) are basically fried eggs placed on a fried tortilla and drizzle with two types of sauces: Red and green.
The names comes from the way the eggs are served: Separated with two different sauces and with some side dish in between, normally refried beans, but also fried potatoes, chorizo, red rice, etc.
the sauces are normally spicy but that’s why I suggest to making your own and add as little spicy as you like.
Mexican style eggs
Mexicans loves having eggs for breakfast. There are so many recipes with eggs that is not hard to have a different dish every single morning for two or three months straight. Really.
Just to name a few, there are: huevos a la mexicana, huevos con jamón, huevos con queso, huevos con rajas, huevos motuleños, huevos a la albañil, huevos rancheros, huevos con chipotle, huevos en torta, huevos con arroz, huevos revueltos con frijoles, huevos con chorizo, huevos con salchicha, etc, etc, etc…see what I mean?
Divorced Eggs Recipe
Make The Red Sauce:
In a sauce pan boil tomatoes and chillies. Let them cool and then peel tomatoes. Place them in a blender with onion, garlic and one cup of the cooking water. Blend until you have a smooth sauce.
In a medium sauce pan heat two tablespoons of oil over medium-low heat. Add sauce, then season with salt and pepper to taste. Bring to boil and cook for 10 minutes. Set aside.
Make The Green Sauce
Place tomatillos and green chillies in a sauce pan. Cover with water and cook until soft. Let them cool completely.
Place tomatillos, green chillies, garlic, onions and cilantro in a blender. Add one cup of water and blend until smooth.
Heat two tablespoons of oil in a medium sauce pan. Add green sauce and season with salt and pepper. Let the sauce simmer for 10 minutes then set aside.
In a frying pan heat a good amount of oil and fry tortillas from both sides until soft (pay attention since tortillas doesn’t have to be crunchy).
Place them onto a plate with paper towels. Then put two tortillas aside on each plate leaving a space in between.
Add more oil to the pan and fry the eggs to your liking (with yolk running, well cook, etc). Place one egg onto each tortilla.
Spoon green sauce over one of the eggs, then red sauce over the other.
How to serve?
Those delicious fried eggs or divorced eggs mexican (however you want to call them) can be served with refried beans, red rice, fried potatoes, chorizo, avocado, etc. Also, cafe de olla is a must, orange juice and even a glass of cold milk.
Sometimes, for more spiciness you can also add chile de arbol salsa!
How To Make Tortillas
If you’d like to make your own corn tortillas, don’t miss our video below!
Divorced eggs (huevos divorciados)
Ingredients
For the red sauce
- 3 tomatoes (about 300 gr)
- dry mexican hot chillies to taste
- ½ medium onion (50 gr) halved
- 1 garlic clove peeled
- olive oil
- salt & pepper
For the green sauce
- ½ lb fresh tomatillos (200 gr) or canned tomatillos (400gr)
- green chillies to taste
- fresh cilantro a handful
- ½ medium onion (50 gr) halved
- 1 garlic clove peeled
- olive oil
- salt & peppers
For the divorced eggs
- 8 large eggs
- 8 corn tortillas
- olive oil
To serve
- Refried beans
- fried potatoes
- chilaquiles
Instructions
Make the red sauce
- In a sauce pan boil tomatoes and chillies. Let them cool and peel tomatoes. Place them in a blender with onion, garlic and one cup of the cooking water. Blend until you have a smooth sauce.
- In a medium sauce pan heat two tablespoons of oil over medium-low heat. Add sauce and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to boil and cook for 10 minutes. Set aside.
Make the green sauce
- Place tomatillos and green chillies in a sauce pan. Cover with water and cook until soft. Let everything cool completely.
- Place tomatillos, green chillies, garlic, onions and cilantro in a blender. Add one cup of water and blend until smooth.
- Heat two tablespoons of oil in a medium sauce pan. Add green sauce, salt and pepper. Let the sauce simmer for 10 minutes then set aside.
Make the divorced eggs
- In a frying pan heat a good amount of oil and fry tortillas from both sides until soft (pay attention since tortillas doesn’t have to be crunchy). Place them onto a plate with paper towels. Then put two tortillas aside on each plate leaving a space in between.
- Add more oil to the pan and fry the eggs to your liking (with yolk running, well cook, etc). Place one egg onto each tortilla.
- Spoon green sauce over one of the eggs, then red sauce over the other.
- Serve with refried beans, fried potatoes, chilaquiles or red rice.
Once you have the sauces done and stored in the fridge takes way less time, but how long can I keep them in the fridge? I did enjoyed a lot this eggs, I think not only for breakfast! It’s incredible the uses of the tortilla, thank you for sharing this!
such a nice recipe! yummy! here to support new friend