Mexican
Molletes (Bean and Cheese Melts)
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Molletes (Bean and Cheese Melts) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at breakfast and dinner. 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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Split the bolillo rolls in half and pull out a little of the crumb to make room for the beans.
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Spread a generous layer of refried beans on each half.
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Top with the shredded cheese and broil until the cheese melts and the edges of the bread crisp, about 4 minutes.
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Meanwhile, dice the tomato, onion, and serrano chile and toss with the cilantro and a squeeze of lime to make a quick pico de gallo.
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Top the molletes with the pico de gallo and serve. The archetypal cena.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Molletes (Bean and Cheese Melts), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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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. Molletes (Bean and Cheese Melts) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Gluten | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| 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
- 570 kcal
- Protein
- 20 g
- Carbs
- 50 g
- Fat
- 32 g
- Fiber
- 8 g
- Sugar
- 6 g
- Sodium
- 620 mg
- Saturated fat
- 12 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Molletes (Bean and Cheese Melts) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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