Recipe: Chilaquiles

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Chilaquiles is a traditional Mexican breakfast dish. It’s made with corn tortillas that are cut into triangles and lightly fried. Chilaquiles can be made either with a green or red sauce that is poured on top of the crispy tortilla triangles. In Mexico it’s very common to eat chilaquiles for breakfast or brunch, either made by yourself or ordered in a restaurant. Chilaquiles are commonly garnished with cream cheese, grated cheese, onion rings, jalapeño and avocado slices. It can be served with eggs (scrambled or fried), pulled chicken or beef.

Chilaquiles is my favorite Mexican breakfast. When going out for breakfast, I mainly order chilaquiles. It’s a very filling and tasty dish. I thought chilaquiles would be difficult to make but when my host family showed me how to make it, I was surprised that it’s very quick and easy. When making the chilaquiles by yourself, you can skip one step by buying ready crisp corn chips from the store, instead of cutting the corn tortillas into triangles and frying them. That saves a lot of time and makes the preparation much quicker. The recipe I’m sharing with you, is chilaquiles with the red sauce. I made a very simple version of the dish so you can add the toppings of your choice.

Recipe (serves 2 persons)

2 tbls olive oil
1/2 onion
1 can of tomato paste (or half can of tomato paste with chili and half can of normal tomato paste, if you want it spicier)
100 ml cream
half a bag of corn chips (or as much as you can fit on your pan)
salt
pepper

Toppings of your choice
(e.g. scrambled or fried eggs, pulled chicken or beef, cream cheese, grated cheese, onion rings, jalapeño and/or avocado)

1. Put some oil on a pan.
2. Cut the onion into little pieces and add them on the pan. Fry the onions a little bit.
3. Add the tomato sauce to the pan. Let it boil.
4. Add the cream and mix all together. Season the sauce with salt and pepper.
5. When the sauce is ready, add the corn chips into the sauce.
6. Mix the sauce with the corn chips so that all the chips are covered in the sauce.
7. Add the toppings you want . I put scrambled eggs, grated cheese, cream cheese, jalapeños and onion rings.

Enjoy this easy and delicious breakfast! Which one do you prefer, chilaquiles rojos (red) or chilaquiles verdes (green)? If you never tried chilaquiles before, let me know if you are interested to try it with this recipe. If you have any questions about the recipe, let me know! I hope you have a wonderful time making chilaquiles!

Love, Emilia

9 thoughts on “Recipe: Chilaquiles”

  2. Thank you for sharing this delicious-looking recipe. What are the differences between chilaquiles rojos and chilaquiles verde? How does the preparation differ? You made the recipe look simple enough, so I might have to try it!

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    • Thank you for your comment and question, Johannes. Well the main difference is that the red sauce (rojos) is made with tomatoes and the green sauce (verde) is made with tomatillos. But in Mexico both sauces can be bought from the store, so I’d believe that the preparation would be very similar. In Finland I have never seen tomatillos though, so i think here the only chance is to prepare chilaquiles rojos. Also, that is the main reason I wanted to share this recipe with you with the red sauce. I hope this answered your question 🙂

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  3. Hola Emilia ! Thank you for sharing the recipe of Chilaquiles. I tried to cook to this recipe and it was soo delicious. Same taste than we are in Mexico! 😍 Soo muchas gracias !

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    • I’m so happy to hear that!! 🙂 I’m glad to hear that the recipe worked well, and you were able to have a little taste of Mexico with this recipe back home.

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