Mexican Scrambled Egg Tacos Recipe

Name: Mexican Scrambled Egg Tacos Recipe
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 garlic cloves, peeled; Fresh hot green chiles to taste (I like 2 serranos or 1 jalapeño), stemmed, seeded, if you wish, and each cut into 3 or 4 pieces; 1 medium white onion, roughly chopped; 2 tablespoons vegetable or olive oil, fresh pork lard or bacon or chorizo drippings; 1 pound (2 medium-large round or 5 to 7 plum) ripe tomatoes, cored and cut into 1/4-inch cubes; 8 eggs; Salt; 1/2 to 2/3 cup (loosely packed) chopped cilantro; 1 ripe avocado, pitted, flesh scooped from the skin and cut into 1/4-inch pieces (optional); 12 warm corn tortillas, store-bought or homemade; About 3/4 cup roasted tomatillo salsa, or bottled salsa or hot sauce, for serving

If this is a book of simple "foundation" recipes from the Mexican kitchen, this preparation is part of the bedrock on which that foundation is laid. No doubt...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients

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Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Mexican Scrambled Egg Tacos Recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1206Calories

46 gProtein

89 gFat

62 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 16 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Corn Tortilla	1 medium flour (45g)	140
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Lard	1 tbsp (12.8g)	115
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Dripping	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,449 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Onion + avocadotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,653 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Avocado + corntop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together444 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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