Fresh, filling, super simple and perfect for when you have more than 2 minutes to make breakfast. Mexican is one of my favourite cuisines for breakfast, lunch, dinner and tequila. 'Tostada' is Spanish for 'toasted' and in this recipe, tortillas get toasted in a hot frying pan until they're crisp and then piled high with fresh ingredients and a fried egg.
Who needs plates when you have a toasted tortilla?
Total time to make : 15 minutes Time to prep : 5 minutes
Time to cook : 10 minutes
Servings : 2
Ingredients
2 tortillas, I used 6" corn
2 tsp olive oil
80g tinned black beans
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1/2 tsp salt
40g cheese, grated
1/2 avocado
2 eggs
Salsa, store-bought or I use this salsa fresco
1/2 lime
Fresh coriander, to garnish
Method
First, roughly mash together the black beans with the smoked paprika and salt and set to one-side
Heat a non-stick frying pan with 1 tsp olive oil over a high heat then place in one (or both if you have a large frying pan) tortilla, moving it around the pan to mop up the oil. Once it's crispy and starting to go golden on the bottom, flip it over
Whilst your tortilla is still in the pan over a high heat, pile on the black bean mash and the grated cheese and leave over the heat for about 2 minutes whilst the cheese begins to melt and the bottom of the tortilla turns golden
Remove from the heat and slide the tortilla out (repeat the above steps if you're toasting each individually). Once both are ready, keep the pan on the heat and add another tsp of olive oil into the pan and crack in the eggs, frying for about 2 minutes until the egg whites are cooked and the yolk still has a wobble to it
Finely slice and fan out the avocado on top of the melted cheese and black beans, then pile on a heaped tbsp of the salsa and top with a good squeeze of lime juice, the fried egg, salt/pepper to season and coriander to garnish if using
Nutritional Information
(per tortilla)
360 calories
16g protein, 24g carbs, 22g fat