• Saturdays With Rachael Ray – Chorizo-Tortilla Tortilla

  Filed under Breakfast/Brunch, Main Dishes - Pork
  Apr 16
  

  Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by the amount of recipes that you want to make?  I was catching up on a few episodes of the Rachael Ray Show today, and added a few more recipes to my “to make” list.  Now, I already post one RR recipe every week.  But seriously – I could make one of her recipes every night and not make everything on my list!!  Between the talk show, 30 minute meals and her magazine, I’m kept super busy.

  Good thing every once in awhile she’ll make something on her talk show that’s also in the magazine.  Then I’m only adding 1 recipe instead of 2!  Plus, I usually know it’s really a good recipe if she thinks it’s good enough to make on her show and put in the magazine.  This was one such recipe.

  Honestly, I would have probably skipped over this one in the magazine.  But after seeing her make it on her talk show, I couldn’t get it out of my head.  So I added it to the meal plan.  This was seriously good.  Especially adding on some hot sauce.  The tortilla chips really soak into the tortilla, so you don’t have the texture of the chips, but you do have that corn flavor.  The original recipe calls for Spanish chorizo, but it’s impossible to find where I live.  This was a recipe that I could substitute in Mexican chorizo with no problem.  I only have 2 words of advice on this: 1 – don’t overcook it.  Eggs are easy to overcook, and the end product will be quite dry if you cook it too long.  2 – be careful what kind of pan you cook it in.  The original recipe calls for a non-stick pan, but I decided to use my cast iron skillet.  It was a little bit hard to get the tortilla out of the cast iron skillet without it sticking to the bottom.

  This is a great dish that packs a ton of flavor!

  Chorizo-Tortilla Tortilla
  adapted from Every Day with Rachael Ray March 2011

  serves 4

  total time: 30 minutes

  2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  1/3 pound Mexican chorizo, casings removed
  4 plum tomatoes, seeded and chopped
  1 medium onion, chopped
  4 cloves garlic, chopped
  1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
  1 red chile pepper, such as fresno, chopped
  salt and pepper
  a handful of cilantro, chopped
  4 handfuls unsalted thin tortilla chips, lightly crushed
  12 large eggs, beaten
  1 1 /2 cups shredded monterey jack cheese
  hot sauce, to pass around the table

  Preheat the oven to 425°. In a 10-inch, ovenproof skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the chorizo and lightly brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes, onion, garlic, bell pepper, chile pepper, salt and pepper; cook for 5 minutes. Scatter in the cilantro and tortilla chips. Add the eggs and season with salt and pepper. Stir to combine; let the eggs settle, then cook until set at the edges (some of the tortilla chips will pop up).

  Transfer the tortilla to the oven and bake until cooked through, 15 to 18 minutes. Turn the oven to broil. Top the tortilla with the cheese and melt under the broiler. Pass the hot sauce at the table.

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  Saturdays with Rachael Ray rules:

  * You can link any blog post, present or past, as long as it is a Rachael Ray recipe.
  * Your blog post must link back to this post, mentioning Saturdays with Rachael Ray.

  That’s it!! Simple, simple. Just make sure the recipe is a Rachael Ray recipe – it doesn’t matter if it comes from her talk show, 30-Minute Meals, her magazine, or one of her cookbooks. But it must be from Rachael Ray. Any posts that don’t follow these two rules will be deleted from the linky.

  I can’t wait to see what you’ve made!

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  6 Comments

6 Responses to “Saturdays With Rachael Ray – Chorizo-Tortilla Tortilla”

1. 

   Karly said on April 16th, 2011 at 4:12 pm

   Love the new blog design! Gorgeous!

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   Karla said on April 19th, 2011 at 7:05 pm

   Hey there, I’ve been reading your blog for a long while now and I really enjoy the great variety of things you post! I also really like the new design you have going on!

   I have been looking for inspiration for new recipes/challenges and I love Rachael Ray, so I think I will try to health-ify one of her favorites for next weekend.

   Thanks for all the great ideas.

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   Katie said on April 21st, 2011 at 2:46 am

   This looks deeeelicious!

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   grace said on April 21st, 2011 at 6:15 am

   you’re a stronger woman than i if you’re able to withstand her talk show…
   that said, this looks scrumptious. the woman can create a tasty dish, that’s for sure!

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