Huevos Rancheros

• 2 Tortillas (Corn - White or Yellow)
• 2 Eggs
• 1/2 cup Enchilada Sauce
• 1/2 cup refried beans
• Grated Cheese (Optional, but recommended)

The ingredients are for one serving, scale as appropriate. I started making this because I had all the ingredients. I am not sure how authentic it is. For reference, here is another recipe. Like most of the my recipes it is really cheap to make and takes only a few minutes - 10 at the most for a single serving. For the Enchilada sauce, I use canned. I have made my own, and it is better than canned, but it takes alot of work. I have tried several brands, sadly the most corporate is the one I like best: Pace. The most authentic I have tried is Las Palmas. Authentic enchilada sauce is a little bitter, it needs other things like oil and cheese to bring out the flavor. The Pace brand stuff surely has other crap in it - sweetener, color, etc…but it is tasty.

1. Heat up the enchilada sauce in the microwave, or on the stove.
2. Start frying your eggs, over-easy and a little underdone
3. Heat up your first tortilla, in a hot pan (with a little oil) or by some other means
4. Put a couple of spoonfuls of enchilada sauce on a plate, and put the tortilla on top of that
5. Spread a layer of beans on the tortilla
6. Sprinkle on some cheese (serves to bind everything together)
7. Put the eggs on top of the cheese and add a bit more cheese on top
8. Heat your second tortilla and put it on top
9. Spoon enchilada sauce over the whole thing so that all the tortilla edges are covered
10. Sprinkle a little cheese on top for garnish
11. Put plate in a broiler/oven/salamander for a couple of minutes at about 200 degrees. Pull it out when the cheese melts (plate will be hot!)
12. Top with a “dollup” of sour cream

Nothin' to it, it is done. Good in the morning with hot coffee.

You can omit the cheese. If you are making many servings, it is easiest to heat everything on the stove top and get a production line going. If you are making a single serving, you can slap it all together (except the eggs, those should be fried manually) and then nuke it in the microwave for a minute or two.