Red Chilaquiles with Fried Eggs

By lorik

Ingredients

• For the Sauce:
• One 14.5-ounce can peeled crushed tomatoes
• 1 jalapeño, with seeds, roughly chopped
• 1 small white onion, chopped
• 2 chiles in adobo
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1/4 cup roughly chopped fresh cilantro
• 1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon agave
• 3/4 teaspoon of salt
• 2 chorizo sausages removed from casing
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon dried ground coriander
• 1/2 teaspoon dried ground cumin
• For Assembly:
• Vegetable oil, for frying
• 10 Corn tortillas, cut or ripped into triangles
• Salt and pepper
• 8 oz Shredded Monterey Jack cheese
• Cotija (crumbly Mexican cheese) or something similar, like feta
• 4 Eggs
• cilantro

Details

Servings 4
Adapted from food52.com

Preparation

Step 1

Place tomatoes, cilantro, jalapeno, chipotle chiles, onion, and garlic in a food processor and blend until smooth.

Place chorizo in a large skillet and cook until no longer pink, breaking up into small pieces. Remove from skillet, do not wipe skillet clean.

Add oil to same skillet over medium heat, add the blended sauce and stir to thicken. Stir in the agave, salt, paprika, coriander and cumin. Taste for seasoning, add more salt if necessary. Return the cooked chorizo to the skillet and stir to combine, again taste for seasoning. (The sauce can be made ahead of time, cooled, and stored in the fridge up to a day in advance.)

Preheat the broiler, and then start frying tortillas. Heat 1/4 inch of oil in a saucepan and, working in batches, fry the tortilla triangles, flipping halfway through, until a little crisp but not totally crunchy. You are not making chips, but instead like 3 notches less crispy than that; this way, the tortilla can hold up to the soupy addition of sauce/cheese/egg, but also sort of melt away into that.

Drain tortillas on a paper towel, sprinkling lightly with salt.

In a cast iron skillet or other broiler safe dish/pan place the fried tortillas in the bottom, sprinkle with some of the cheeses, pour sauce over the top and top with the rest of the Monterey Jack cheese and Cotija cheese to taste. Broil until cheese is melted.

Fry eggs over easy in a small pan, keeping yolks intact and uncooked because you know what’s up. Place eggs on top and serve with sour cream, additional onion if desired and cilantro.