Mexican
Machaca con Huevo (Shredded Dried Beef with Egg)
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Machaca con Huevo (Shredded Dried Beef with Egg) 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
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Soak the machaca in warm water for 5 minutes to soften, then drain and shred it finer between your fingers.
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Heat the oil in a skillet and saute the onion, tomato, and serrano chile for 2 minutes.
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Add the machaca and cook 3 minutes, letting it crisp slightly at the edges.
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Beat the eggs, pour them in, and scramble until just set.
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Serve hot with warm tortillas, a breakfast of the northern states.
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Serve it with
A Mexican breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Machaca con Huevo (Shredded Dried Beef with Egg), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The sharp little thing
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. Machaca con Huevo (Shredded Dried Beef with Egg) carries eggs. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| 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
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 210 kcal
- Protein
- 20 g
- Carbs
- 3 g
- Fat
- 13 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 400 mg
- Saturated fat
- 3 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Machaca con Huevo (Shredded Dried Beef with Egg) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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