Huevos con Chorizo is a traditional south of the border dish – literally eggs with sausage, rice and usually refried beans – YUM. I woke up one morning intent on giving my lovely wife breakfast in bed and decided I was going to make a breakfast dish of this something SIMILAR to Huevos con Chorizo. What I ended up with THAT morning was Jimmy Dean lean sausage with scrambled eggs served in flour tortillas topped with diced roma tomatoes and shredded cheese. It took a while to find the right parts to make it consistently the way I like it, one big helper was running across the perfect seasoning for the sausage – Lollipop Tree’s Apple Chipotle glaze/grilling sauce. It has just enough of a bite to let you know some chipotle is involved and a sweet apple flavor that make it even tasty enough for kids to like.
Over the last couple of years since I started cooking this stuff, I’ve perfected the recipe to my standards and everyone who has eaten my killer breakfast meal has loved it. Here’s how you can make it! If you read the ‘about’ page of this site you’ll remember that I’m not a measurements type of guy in recipes – I look at several different ways of cooking something then use the force to direct my proportions.
Depending on the size of the group you’re feeding, less is more with this dish. For my bunch; myself, the wife and 2.37 kids, I use either a full tube of Jimmy Dean lean sausage or a half tube of regular with 6 eggs. The only exact proportion I use in this mix is a quarter cup of white rice. I know – traditional Spanish dish, you’d think Spanish rice… Shaddap – I like white rice better.
Start by DICING half a small white onion to cook with the sausage. Put it in the pan before the sausage then brown the sausage just as you would ground beef or ground chuck. Make sure you use a pan large enough to hold this mix, there’s a lot of grub in there cooking at the same time by the time it’s ready to be served. Grab your spices – just a sprinkling of ground cumin, don’t get too happy with the cumin unless you want your breakfast tasting like it sat in a smoker for about six hours. Add a generous dusting of chili powder and add ground chipotle pepper powder to the limits of your taste. Finally, pour in 2-3 tablespoons worth of the Lollipop Tree apple chipotle glaze. Stir that up and keep browning at a medium heat. I would say high but you’ve still got a lot of work to do. BEFORE YOU DO ALL THAT THOUGH, start your quarter-cup of rice. Hopefully you’re the “read the article first” kind of cook and aren’t standing there now saying “DANGIT, I wish he’d told me about the rice before I got this far.”
In the midst of sausage mix stirring, get to work cracking your half-dozen eggs and wisking them together in a bowl. Next DICE a roma tomato and mix it with the egg bowl. Finally chop 3-4 green onions into little rings and add to the eggs. By now your rice should be ready and, even if it hasn’t simmered for the required time, go ahead a dump it in the pan also. The moisture from all the goodies in the pan will finish whatever the simmer didn’t. Once the spiced sausage mix looks browned pretty well, pour your egg/tomato/green onion bowl into the pan and start stirring. Stir less to make a thicker mix, more to be more like meaty scrambled eggs. When you’ve flip-flopped the mix around enough to cook all the eggs, dump the whole mess into a serving dish and yell for everyone to come eat.
The best tortilla shells to use are the flour ones and the bigger the better. Put those into the microwave four at a time for a minute unless you REALLY want to be anal about it – in that case put them in one at a time for 15 seconds each. Grab a bag of shredded cheese or shred your own.
Finally, scoop some of the egg/sausage mix onto a tortilla, sprinkle some cheese on there, fold it into a burrito and go to town.
For larger deployments such as the annual Sunday hangover cure Web Operations Memorial Day weekend beach bash breakfast, the recipe is easily scalable (given the availability of a large enough pan in which to mix everything). 30-40 servings at that party is handled by two dozen eggs and 3 tubes of sausage. This recipe is a good stomach filler for tailgate parties as well.
