Huevos Divorciados (Divorced Eggs)

What You Can Expect From This Recipe

Huevos Divorciados can be found in practically every part of Mexico. The dish name comes from the way the sunny side up eggs are served, which are separated by a serving of refried beans, and each egg is drizzled with a different sauce.

Huevos Divorciados literally translates to Divorced Eggs. The dish is similar to Huevos Rancheros, with the difference being the duel sauces.

For serving, the sauces are spooned around the yolks, covering the white. Refried beans are added to separate the eggs. Serve this with corn chips and grated or crumbled cheese.

This recipe comes together easily once you have the salsa’s prepared. I like to prepare my own salsa’s (sauce) as I have a couple of really good recipes. However, you can purchase Salsa Verde, or Tomatillo Salsa along with red salsas on the Mexican aisle at the grocery.

Huevos Divorciados makes an easy Mexican Food breakfast, and can be scaled up to serve to guests for brunch. If entertaining, serve it with Mexican Micheladas.

This recipe comes from the highly touted cookbook: Mexico: The Cookbook. The definitive bible on Mexican home cooking by one of Mexico’s leading culinary authority, Margarita Carrillo Arronte.

Let’s take a look.

Ingredients You’ll Need

• The Sauces: You can use homemade Tomatillo Salsa (salsa verde), or Homemade Green Chile Sauce. I personally prefer the Green Chile Sauce. Use a raw salsa roja, like this simple Restaurant Style Mexican Salsa. For the red salsa, however added a heaping teaspoon of tomato paste to give it an earthier and richer layer of flavor and deeper color.
• Beans: Using canned refried beans from the store makes this an easy breakfast recipe. But if you’ve made homemade refried beans and have leftovers, this is a great way to use them.

Step by Step Instructions, It’s Easy

1. Step 1: Using butter or oil, cook the eggs to sunny side up stage. Once the oil or butter is heated add the eggs. Use a spatula to separate the whites if they run together. Lower the heat and let the eggs gently cook until the whites have set up. It only takes a few minutes. For sunny side up eggs, you want the yolks to be runny.

How To Serve It

2. Step 2: Spoon a serving of warmed refried beans in the center of a plate. Place two sunny side up eggs on each side of the beans. Carefully spoon green salsa on the white of one egg, and red sauce on the white of the other fried egg. Add some tortilla chips and sprinkle with Cotija cheese, which is a dry, salty crumbling cheese.

Riffs on Huevos Divorciados

• Add some color: Add a couple slices of avocado, or some chopped cilantro.
• Cheese: Substitute Cotija Cheese with shredded cheddar or Monterey Jack.
• Tortilla Chips: Serve Divorced Eggs over a warmed corn tortillas or flour tortillas. Then add the refried beans between the two.
• Condiments: Add a dollop of Mexican Crema, Sour Cream or Guacamole.
• Add a couple of rings of fresh sliced jalapeno pepper, or pickled jalapenos.

Leftovers

More than likely you’ll have leftover salsas. Store any leftover salsa in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week.

• Use them to as a dipping sauce for tortilla chips.
• Make tacos or burritos and drizzle over the filling.
• Or pour it over a block of cream cheese and serve with tortilla chips
• Spoon some over fried potatoes, or hash brown potatoes.
• Sprinkle Divorced Eggs with fine chopped raw sweet onion.