A crunchy baked tortilla that’s chock full of fresh veggies, flavorful chorizo, and topped with a perfectly cooked egg! These Chorizo Huevos Rancheros are the perfect way to start your day!

I never want summer to end. The toasty warm weather, relaxing vacations in Hawaii, the lazy mornings spent chopping fresh veggies to make a delicious and hearty breakfast. In other words, I want every day to be chorizo huevos rancheros day!

I’m going to be honest here and throw out that I’ve been more of an oatmeal-for-breakfast kinda girl for the last few years, and this is one of the first times I’ve gone the extra mile to make something savory to start the day. It’s not that I necessarily enjoy sweeter things for breakfast more, it’s just that I have my whole oatmeal routine down.

It goes something like this:

Take out the Quaker oats container. Throw a few handfuls into a big bowl, add water and a sliced banana. Microwave for two minutes (laziness reigns supreme when I haven’t had my morning latte yet). Stir in a splash of vanilla extract and a mountain of cinnamon and sprinkle brown sugar on top. Done and done. Easy as that. 

While these do take a bit more time than my morning oats, they are so worth it. The crunch from the baked corn tortilla that’s supplemented by a giant burst of flavor from all the chopped veggies. That drippy egg yolk that gloriously breaks in slow-mo and drizzles over every part of the dish. Oh! And good amount of queso to top the whole thing off and add a soft and creamy texture. Can you hear my heart pounding?? I think I’m in love. 

I pass these off as a breakfast food, but c’mon, look at how versatile they are! They’re a cross between a deconstructed omelet and crunchy taco, which automatically allows them to traverse the breakfast-lunch-dinner boundary. 

As usual, I had Kyle by my side throughout the cooking process to help be my official taste tester and overeater. It’s a hard job, but he’s always up for a challenge. I actually put him to more work than usual this time and had him cook up the eggs and left him busy trying to form a “good-looking egg”, which he obviously took to mean perfectly circular. Kyle  is the type of guy that gets borderline obsessed with trying to figure out how to fix or make things a certain way. Like I mentioned before, the engineer in him gets him fixated on any and all projects. Sunny side up eggs are no exception.

25 minutes later and with scraps of egg and cookie cutters lying around (don’t ask, he tried to use them as a mold), I forced him to give up. While the perfectly circular egg eluded us, this recipe was still a big success ;).