Honduran Baleadas with Eggs, Beans & Crema

Honduras's beloved street breakfast: warm flour tortillas folded around onion-scented refried beans, soft scrambled eggs, crema and salty crumbled cheese.

Ingredients

• 8 flour tortillas
• 1 can (16 oz) refried beans (red beans if you can find them)
• ¼ onion, in one chunk
• 6 eggs
• ½ cup sour cream or Central American crema
• ½ cup crumbled cotija
• 1 avocado, sliced

From your pantry: 1 tbsp oil, 1 tbsp butter, salt.

Instructions

1. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high and fry the onion chunk, turning, until browned, 4 to 5 minutes. Discard the onion, add the beans to the flavored oil and stir until hot and glossy, about 3 minutes, adding a splash of water if thick.
2. Thin the sour cream with 1 tbsp water and a pinch of salt so it drizzles.
3. Whisk the eggs with a pinch of salt and scramble in the butter in a nonstick pan over medium-low, stirring gently, until just set, 2 to 3 minutes.
4. Warm the tortillas in a dry skillet until soft and lightly spotted, about 30 seconds per side.
5. Spread each tortilla with beans, add eggs, a drizzle of crema, cotija and avocado, then fold in half and eat warm.

Tip: Honduran tortillas are thick, chewy and homemade, so buy the thickest 'homestyle' flour tortillas you can find. Queso duro and mantequilla (Honduran crema) are the traditional cheese and cream.

Nutrition per serving

Good for

Adapted from Goya Foods.

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