Migas Recipe: Mexican Scrambled Eggs with Crispy Tortillas

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 corn tortillas

  cut into strips or squares
• 1 jalapeno pepper

  diced
• 1 small red bell pepper

  diced
• 1 small onion

  white or yellow, diced
• 4-5 eggs

  lightly scrambled
• 1 medium tomato

  diced
• Salt and pepper to taste
• ½ cup shredded pepperjack or Monterrey Jack cheese
• For Serving: spicy chili flakes

  extra sliced peppers, avocado, hot sauce

Instructions

• 1 Heat the vegetable oil in a large pan and add the corn tortillas. Fry them
  lightly in the hot oil until they crisp up, flipping a bit, about 4-5 minutes.
  Remove them from the pan and set them into paper towels to drain. Sprinkle them
  with a bit of salt while they are hot.
• 2 Next, add the peppers and onion to the hot pan and cook them down about 5
  minutes.
• 3 Stir in the tomato, then pour in the scrambled eggs. Sprinkle with salt and
  pepper and stir.
• 4 Cook the eggs, stirring here and there, about 2-3 minutes, or until the eggs
  just begin to set.
• 5 Remove from heat and stir in the reserved crispy tortillas and shredded cheese.
• 6 Top with spicy chili flakes, extra sliced peppers and avocado. And hot sauce if
  desired!

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