Tex Mex

Tex-Mex Migas

Name: Tex-Mex Migas
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 8 large eggs; 6 corn tortillas; 1 tomato; 1 jalapeno; 1/2 onion; 3/4 cup shredded cheddar; 3 tbsp neutral oil; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 cup salsa

Yesenia @yesenia_tejana

Tex-Mex Migas is Tex Mex 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.

20 min Medium Diabetic friendly Halal Gluten free Pescatarian Eggetarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

8 large eggs
6 corn tortillas
1 tomato
1 jalapeno
1/2 onion
3/4 cup shredded cheddar
3 tbsp neutral oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup salsa

How to cook it

Cut the corn tortillas into small squares and fry in the hot oil until crisp and golden, then lift out most of them, leaving a little oil in the pan.
Add the onion, jalapeno, and tomato and cook until softened, about 4 minutes.
Beat the eggs with the salt, return the crisp tortilla pieces to the pan, and pour in the eggs.
Scramble gently until the eggs are just set and the tortillas are woven throughout, about 3 minutes.
Fold in the cheddar until melted and serve with salsa.

Watch how to cook Tex-Mex Migas

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

MIGAS con HUEVO Recipe | One of the BEST Mexican Restaurant Breakfasts Play the video

Serve it with

A Tex Mex breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tex-Mex Migas, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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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. Tex-Mex Migas carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Tex-Mex Migas
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Carne Guisada
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Bean and Cheese Burrito
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: 350 kcal
Protein: 18 g
Carbs: 24 g
Fat: 20 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 560 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Tex-Mex Migas takes about 20 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.