Huevos Rancheros

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil extra virgin 
• 0.5 medium onion chopped ( a half cup)
• 15 ounce canned tomatoes fresh whole crushed canned (or 1 -2 large vine-ripened tomatoes, when in season)
• 3 ounce anaheim chiles diced green canned
• 4  corn tortillas 
• 4 servings butter 
• 4  eggs fresh
• 2 tablespoons cilantro leaves fresh chopped

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven
• spatula

Directions

1. Make the sauce: Sauté the onions in a little olive oil in a large skillet on medium heat. Once the onions are translucent, add the tomatoes and their juices. If using whole canned tomatoes, break them up with your fingers or a spatula as you put them in the pan.
2. If you are using fresh tomatoes, chop them first, then add. Note that fresh tomatoes will take longer to cook as canned tomatoes are already cooked to begin with.
3. Add chopped green chilies.
4. Add additional chili to taste, either chipotle chili powder, adobo sauce, regular chili powder, or even ground cumin.
5. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to low, and let simmer while you do the rest of the cooking, stirring occasionally. Reduce to warm after it has been simmering for 10 minutes.
6. Add salt to taste if needed.
7. Warm the plates:
8. Heat the oven to a warm 150°F, place serving plates in the oven to keep warm.
9. the tortillas:
10. Heat a teaspoon of olive oil in a large non-stick skillet on medium high, coating the pan with the oil.
11. One by one (or more if your pan is big enough) heat the tortillas in the pan, a minute or two on each side, until they are heated through, softened, and pockets of air bubble up inside of them.
12. Then remove them and stack them on one of the warming plates in the oven to keep warm while you continue cooking the rest of the tortillas and the eggs.
13. the eggs: Using the same skillet as was used for the tortillas, add a little butter to the pan, about two teaspoons for 4 eggs.
14. Heat the pan on medium high heat. Crack 4 eggs into the skillet and cook for 3 to 4 minutes for runny yolks, more for firmer eggs.
15. and serve: To serve, spoon a little of the sauce onto a warmed plate. Top with a tortilla, then a fried egg. Top with more sauce, sprinkle with cilantro if desired.
16. Serve either one or two eggs/tortillas per plate, depending on how much you want to eat. I'm a 2-egg 2 tortilla person myself.