Food for Friday: Huevos Rancheros

PEOPLE. I just discovered a new dish that shall make out a good portion of my weekly diet HENCEFORTH. This dish I'm speaking of: huevos rancheros. It SOUNDS as good as it tastes, yo. It's one of those dishes I encountered while browsing pinterest (check out my board for yummy recipes here) and just couldn't wait to make myself. Like, I seriously kept saying LETS EAT HUEVOS RANCHEROS for days until my boyfriend was sick of it (and also a bit curious as to what kind of random shiz I was talking about).

I mean seriously, does your mouth NOT WATER at seeing these pictures? Do you have salivary glands? If so, your mouth must be watering. I can tell. I customized the dish a bit by adding olives because we had a lot of left over olives and because the added saltiness really worked with the tastes, and some mixed salad to add a bit of fraîcheur. Btw did you know that mixed salad is like a LOT healthier than iceberg lettuce? Iceberg lettuce is basically just water. Not a real vegetable yo.

So. If you want to taste the divinity of this dish,

YOU'LL NEED:

SAUCE

• a red bell pepper
• onion
• quite some garlic
• white beans
• olives 
• tomato sauce 
• oregano
• chili pepper
• paprika powder
• koriander
• lime juice

ON THE SIDE 

• corn tortillas
• sour cream
• avocado
• mixed salad

PREPARATION:

Chop up your bell pepper, onion and garlic, and sweat all of them in a heated pan. When your onion has gone translucent, throw in your beans, tomato sauce and olives. Season to taste with your herbs. Let all of it cook without putting the lid on so the sauce can thicken. When your mixture has thickened to your liking, just break your eggs and throw them in! You'll poach the eggs in the sauce and it will be amazing, trust.

When your eggwhites have gone white allover, your huevos rancheros are done. Serve with some tortillas you've heated and browned a bit in a flat, dry pan, a good dollop of sour cream, mushy avocado and mixed salad. Super tasty, super healthy and super easy to make: an all-round winner. My guy would vouch for it, and he doesn't even like beans or vegetarian dishes! And this dish is super easy to customize to your tastes, or to the time of year. This would be amazing with some fresh salsa (chopped up raw tomatoes, herbs, a chili pepper, onion and lime juice) instead of tomato sauce for the summertime, for example!

Bon appetit :)