Migas

Name: Migas
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Europe, Spanish & Portuguese
Ingredients: 8 , large eggs; 2 ounces, baked tortilla chips, broken into 1/2-inch pieces (about 1 cup); , Salt and ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1 , small red onion, minced; 1 , red bell pepper, cored and chopped fine; 3 , garlic cloves, minced; 1 , jalapeño chile, cored and minced; 3/4 cup, shredded pepper Jack cheese; 2 tablespoons, minced fresh cilantro leaves

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A staple breakfast throughout the Southwest, this dish combines fluffy scrambled eggs with onions, chiles, cheese, and an unexpected ingredient: fried tortillas, which soften in the eggs to a pleasantly chewy texture. It’s the perfect start to the day—or a satisfying lunch or dinner, for that matter.

SERVES4

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

While most traditional migas recipes call for freshly fried tortillas, once we tasted batches with both fresh-fried and store-bought tortilla chips, we thought the latter tasted just fine, especially considering how much faster a recipe mad...

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