Chilaquiles Verdes With Scrambled Eggs

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Chilaquiles verdes with scrambled eggs and black beans is the most comforting savory breakfast or decadent weekend brunch you can make in just 25 minutes.

If you’ve never heard of chilaquiles before, you’re in for a treat. We’re so excited to introduce you to our new favorite brunch recipe. This savory Mexican breakfast dish is comfort food in a nutshell. It’s warm, saucy, savory, tangy, and gooey all at once – really just the most satisfying meal you could ask for. And it’s perfect for a unique weekend brunch with your friends, family, and loved ones.

So What Is Chilaquiles Verdes?

Chilaquiles are a Mexican breakfast food that we like to call “breakfast nachos,” since they’re basically tortilla chips doused in sauce and topped with cheese and other ingredients like crema, onion, beans, or other proteins. But unlike nachos, chilaquiles are eaten with a fork or a spoon since they’re super saucy.

There are many variations on chilaquiles, our favorite being chilaquiles verdes, or green chilaquiles (check out our chilaquiles rojos and decide for yourself!). Our restaurant style chilaquiles verdes recipe is made with a tangy salsa verde, black beans, cheese, and eggs that’s fairly quick and easy to prepare at home. Inspired by a delicious brunch we had in Paso Robles, this savory combination of toppings makes for an irresistible comfort food breakfast that feels super indulgent but doesn’t weigh you down like pancakes or french toast.

And as legend has it, chilaquiles are also said to help hangovers. So next time you party a little too hard, try making this recipe the next day and let us know if it actually helps! 

Key Ingredients

To make our chilaquiles verdes with eggs recipe, you will need to prepare three main components:

• Verde sauce – The best verde sauce is homemade verde sauce. And it only takes 15 minutes to make. 
• Tortilla chips – You can either use your favorite store-bought chips or make some homemade tortilla chips of your own!
• Toppings – The scrambled egg, black beans, and Mexican cheese mixture makes for a flavorful and filling topping.

See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.

How To Make Green Chilaquiles With Scrambled Eggs

Depending on what you choose to make from scratch or use store bought, this recipe can be made in as little as 10 minutes. That means you can have both an easy and decadent brunch.

1. Prep your ingredients – If you are going to make homemade tortilla chips and verde sauce from scratch, you’ll want to get these started first. The verde sauce can cook while you prepare the other toppings.
2. Make your egg and bean mixture – Basically you’ll make some cheesy scrambled eggs and then add the black beans to warm them. 
3. Assemble – Top your tortilla chips with the verde sauce and then the egg and bean topping. 
4. Serve immediately and enjoy – the chips will get soggy if you don’t enjoy these right away!

Note that using a larger plate gives you more surface area to spread out the chips into a single layer. It’s okay if the chips are overlapping a bit, but for the most part you want to be able to drench every single chip in that verde sauce. This is what gives chilaquiles their signature crispy-yet-soft texture!

Serving Suggestions & Notes On Scaling

Our chilaquiles verdes recipe is made for serving 2 people, so it’s perfect for an at-home brunch date with your partner or best friend (check our our shakshuka for two recipe for another great breakfast date). It’s also very easy to scale, so you can make chilaquiles for a larger crowd if needed!

In case you want just one serving for yourself, we recommend making a whole batch of verde sauce and halving the rest of the recipe. The verde sauce stores nicely in the fridge for 1 to 2 weeks, and you can eat it with tortilla chips or use it on eggs, quesadillas, burritos, or enchiladas.

Try our chilaquiles verdes recipe with eggs and let us know what you think by leaving a rating and a comment below! Don’t forget to share if you love it, and check out more of our favorite Mexican recipes here.