Taco de Huevo
Egg taco; scrambled, fried, or in various preparations.
Egg taco; scrambled, fried, or in various preparations.
The taco de huevo con nopales solves the cactus's slime problem the hard way: boiling and rinsing the paddle dry in its own pot before it ever meets egg that is itself still wet until it sets.
The Mexican corn-tortilla taco de huevo con chorizo, eaten over a fonda counter at almuerzo: fresh red chorizo, or Toluca's green chorizo verde, scrambled into the egg as one stained soft mass.
Bought by the dozen for the office and the Sunday after Mass: a soft flour tortilla folded around a hot filling, with the cheap, enormous bean and cheese as the city's yardstick.
Texas breakfast staple; soft flour tortilla with scrambled eggs plus various fillings—bacon, chorizo, potato, cheese, beans. Huge in Aust...
Egg and potato breakfast taco.
Egg and bean breakfast taco.
Mexican chorizo rendered in a dry skillet, eggs scrambled straight into the fat, folded into a warm flour tortilla. A South Texas morning staple, and the filling that set off the 2016 taco war.
Egg and bacon breakfast taco.
Barbacoa breakfast taco; weekend specialty.
Austin's breakfast taco culture; fierce loyalty to local taquerias, flour tortillas dominate.