Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Salsa chilaquiles
Stale tortillas in salsa until they slump, eggs on top. Uses the last of the pack.
The sheet · 2 plates · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. Stale tortillas in salsa until they slump, eggs on top. Uses the last of the pack.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- tortillas
- tomato
- eggs
- onion
- cumin
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: feta, cilantro.
Method
- Tear the tortillas and crisp them in a little oil until they are genuinely hard. Stale is better than fresh.
- Tomato, onion and cumin cooked into a sauce and seasoned much harder than seems reasonable — it is carrying everything.
- Fold the crisped tortillas through the hot sauce off the heat and serve within a minute. Longer and you have made a casserole.
- Eggs on top, something cold and sharp beside them. Cream, crumbled cheese and raw onion all do the same job here, which is stopping the sauce from being the only thing in your mouth.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardTruly Foolproof Poached EggsJ. Kenji López-AltPoaching without the wispy strands. The trick is what happens before the egg reaches the water.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- tortillas
- They want direct heat before they go anywhere near a plate.
- tomato
- Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- cumin
- Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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