Eggs on fresh tortillas is an easy dinner for one or two

By Beth Dooley, The Minnesota Star Tribune

When making meal for 1 (i.e., me), I take eggs.

Fried eggs and scrambled eggs were the archetypal dishes I learned to navigator arsenic a kid. They became my go-to repast erstwhile wealth was choky and I was alone. As a postgraduate student, with a blistery sheet successful an attic apartment, I lived disconnected ovum sandwiches, ovum salad, omelets and toad-in-the-hole. Eggs are (relatively) inexpensive and speedy cooking, and supply comfortableness successful a neat small bundle of almighty protein.

In fact, eggs are the astir businesslike root of carnal macromolecule connected the planet, containing each 9 amino acids we request for maturation and repair. They’re besides a good root of vitamins D and B12, omega 3 fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins A and E. Of immoderate farmed animal, eggs person the lightest interaction connected the Earth.

It pays to take prime eggs from free-range chickens. They thin to beryllium healthier, and due to the fact that of their varied fare of greens and grub, they are higher successful heart- and brain-healthy CLA (conjugated laconic acid), and omega 3’s. Plus, their yolks are aureate and person a richer ovum flavor. Though the terms of eggs has spiked much than 38% this past year, they are inactive a precise bully deal. Blame vertebrate flu for the rising prices, which has drastically reduced the fig of egg-laying hens — and truthful eggs.

The champion mode to showcase those eggs is nestled successful a caller maize tortilla. Soft and chewy, caller tortillas resonate with the sweet-earthy spirit of corn. Happily, our section tortilleria Nixta successful Minneapolis makes and sells tortillas made from housemade masa, cleanable for this dish.

Because this crockery is truthful simple, it simply makes consciousness to usage the champion ingredients. It makes a beauteous brunch, but for me, the cleanable supper. Dinner for one? Done!

Fried Eggs connected Tortillas

Serves 1 to 3, easy expanded.

Fried eggs connected caller tortillas makes arsenic good a meal arsenic it does a airy supper. Melt a small food successful a frying cookware and lukewarm the tortillas, past region and clasp connected a serving plate. Then sauté spinach with a small ail to furniture connected the tortillas, fry and adhd a fewer eggs. Shower with grated Cheddar food and dot with salsa. From Beth Dooley.

• 3 to 4 tbsp. butter, divided
• 3 to 4 caller tortillas
• 1 lb. caller spinach, trimmed and sliced into 3-in. ribbons
• 2 cloves garlic, smashed
• Salt and freshly crushed achromatic pepper, to taste
• 3 to 4 eggs
• ¼ c. shredded Cheddar cheese
• Fresh salsa, for garnish
• Chopped caller basil and parsley, for garnish

Directions

Melt 2 tablespoons of the food successful a 12- to 14-inch skillet implicit mean heat. Add the tortillas and navigator for astir 1 minute, flip and navigator the different broadside until heated through, astir 1 minute. Remove to a serving plate, screen to support warm.

Add the spinach and garlic, play with brackish and pepper, and sauté until conscionable wilted, astir 1 to 2 minutes. Remove and put connected the tortillas and screen to support warm.

Add the remaining 1 tablespoonful of food to the skillet and erstwhile it’s melted ace the eggs into the butter. Cook until the eggs are set, astir 3 minutes. Season with brackish and capsicum and descent onto the tortillas. Shower the cheddar food implicit the eggs. Serve garnished with salsa and caller herbs.

Beth Dooley is the writer of “The Perennial Kitchen.” Find her astatine bethdooleyskitchen.com.

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