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Cheesy Egg and Potato Breakfast Tacos

Soft-scrambled eggs, crispy potatoes, and melted cheese folded into warm flour tortillas.

Cheesy Egg and Potato Breakfast Tacos, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
35 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$8.71

Ingredients

  • 10 large eggs
  • 16 oz frozen shredded hash browns
  • 12 flour tortillas (taco size)
  • 6 oz shredded mexican cheese blend
  • 12 oz jarred salsa
  • 3 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 avocado(optional)
  • 1/2 bunch cilantro(optional)

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high and cook the hash browns, pressing them flat, 12 to 15 minutes until deeply crisp. Season with salt and move to a plate.

  2. Beat the eggs with a pinch of salt.

  3. Melt the butter in the same pan over low heat and cook the eggs slowly, stirring constantly, until barely set and creamy.

  4. Fold in the shredded cheese off the heat.

  5. Warm the tortillas in a dry pan until soft and pliable.

  6. Fill each with potatoes, eggs, salsa, avocado, and cilantro.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 8 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United States$34.82$8.718 of 8 ingredients
Australia$60.01$15.008 of 8 ingredients
Canada$79.32$19.838 of 8 ingredients
New Zealand$70.99$17.757 of 8 ingredients
United Kingdom£23.34£5.846 of 8 ingredients
Spain19,17 €4,79 €6 of 8 ingredients
Mexico$698.09$174.526 of 8 ingredients
Greece23,28 €*5,82 €5 of 8 ingredients
Egypt‏٧٠٥٫٦٠ ج.م.‏*‏١٧٦٫٤٠ ج.م.‏5 of 8 ingredients
Germany35,25 €*8,81 €5 of 8 ingredients
Austria€ 20,64*€ 5,164 of 8 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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