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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)
$8.79

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 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$35.16$8.798 of 8 ingredients
United Kingdom£23.71£5.938 of 8 ingredients
Australia$58.58$14.658 of 8 ingredients
Canada$64.42$16.118 of 8 ingredients
Mexico$808.11$202.038 of 8 ingredients
New Zealand$55.16$13.797 of 8 ingredients
Greece31,66 €7,92 €7 of 8 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٠٥١٫٣٥ ج.م.‏‏٢٦٢٫٨٤ ج.م.‏7 of 8 ingredients
Spain22,92 €5,73 €7 of 8 ingredients
Germany39,17 €9,79 €7 of 8 ingredients
Austria€ 30,08€ 7,526 of 8 ingredients

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