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Huevos Rancheros

Fried eggs over warm tortillas and black beans with a quick ranchero tomato sauce.

Huevos Rancheros, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$6.75

Ingredients

  • 8 large eggs
  • 8 corn tortillas
  • 30 oz canned black beans
  • 20 oz canned diced tomatoes with green chiles
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 4 oz shredded mexican cheese blend
  • 1 avocado(optional)
  • 1/2 bunch cilantro(optional)

Method

  1. Cook the diced onion in 1 tbsp oil until soft, then add the garlic and cumin.

  2. Add the tomatoes with their liquid and simmer 10 minutes into a loose sauce. Season with salt.

  3. Warm the drained black beans in a small pan with a splash of water, mashing some of them.

  4. Warm the tortillas in a dry skillet until soft and puffed.

  5. Fry the eggs in the remaining oil, keeping the yolks runny.

  6. Stack tortillas with beans, sauce and two eggs each, then top with cheese, 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 9 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
Australia$48.35$12.098 of 9 ingredients
Canada$88.52$22.138 of 9 ingredients
Spain21,39 €5,35 €8 of 9 ingredients
United States$27.00$6.757 of 9 ingredients
United Kingdom£17.04£4.267 of 9 ingredients
Greece26,85 €6,71 €7 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$574.47$143.627 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 30,41*€ 7,606 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$24.23*$6.065 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏٢٣٨٫٥٠ ج.م.‏*‏٥٩٫٦٣ ج.م.‏5 of 9 ingredients
Germany15,73 €*3,93 €5 of 9 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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