Mexican breakfast recipe

molletes recipe photo by Jackie Alpers
breakfast

Molletes

February 7, 2021 Jackie Alpers Comments Off on Molletes

These open-faced breakfast sandwiches are made by slathering refried beans onto toasted bolillo rolls and then heaping avocado slices, a fried egg, hot sauce, and lots of cheese on top. If you can’t find bolillos at your local bakery, use a sweet French roll instead. […]

Breakfast taco from Taste of Tucson
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Recipe for Chorizo, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Taco

April 20, 2020 Jackie Alpers Comments Off on Recipe for Chorizo, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Taco

I ate this as a makeshift breakfast every day for weeks while writing Taste of Tucson.

The fat from the tablespoon of chorizo makes the egg really crispy and adds a lot of flavor without too many extra calories. I fry up a batch of chorizo in advance and store it in the fridge, where it becomes solid until I scoop it out and heat it up. […]