If you’ve heard of the dish called arroz a la Cubana, this is a variation. Instead of rice, the ground meat stew, fried egg and bananas are served with flour tortillas. The meat stew is cooked spicy, chili style, and, in lieu of the traditional saba bananas, I used the lakatan (lacatan) variety — very ripe, very sweet and a very pretty yellow-orange.
And just where did the idea come from? From Golden West Cafe’s huevos montulenos which, whether the misspelling is intentional or not, seems to be an American adaptation of huevos motuleños, a breakfast dish from the Yucatan region of Mexico that “consists of fried eggs served on tortillas with refried black beans and a tomato-based sauce, which is often studded with ham, peas and plantains and then sprinkled with cheese.”
Chili, Egg and Banana Breakfast
Ingredients
- 2 and 1/2 cups cooked chili (see notes below)
- 3 eggs
- 3 to 6 bananas ripe
- 3 to 4 tablespoons butter
- 6 six-inch flour tortillas (use only three if the tortillas as much larger)
- chopped parsley to garnish
Instructions
- Heat the chili. Keep covered.
- Melt the butter in a non-stick frying pan. Cook the eggs, sunny side up, and transfer to individual plates.
- Peel the bananas and split lengthwise. Fry in the remaining butter until lightly browned.
- Wipe the frying pan with kitchen paper and reheat.
- Heat the tortillas until blistered.
- To serve: Arrange the fried bananas, chili and tortillas around the fried egg. Sprinkle with chopped parsley. Have a great breakfast.
Recipe Notes
Chili recipes in the archive:
Chinese-style Pork Liver and Spring Onions Stir Fry
Carnitas Tacos With Pico de Gallo
Carnitas: Mexican “Little Meats” Dish
Strawberry and Mango Sorbet
Thanks Panyera. You gave me an idea what to do with all these ripening lakatan and latundan on top of my dining table. Fried bananas for me was only confined to the saba variety.
So fried lakatan and latundan for breakfast tomorrow!
Didn’t know the lakatan would be great for frying! Sarap! Basta fast and furious frying hehehe
Breakfast? Is it because you didn’t sleep? :-P
Looks good for any meal!
Oh yes, I agree, this one is good any time of the day! And a banana is a banana is a banana!!! Energy booster yan!
Nikita, more like because it was the first meal of the day although we had it at 2.00 p.m. hehehehe
Crisma, and here’s the plus of lakatan — I read somewhere that lakatan is richer in betacarotene than other banana varieties. :) Buti na lang cause I’m not a big fan of latundan. :-P
Thank you for sharing. I’ve always wondered how to make this. Looks simple enough for a newbie like me. Just stumbled on your blog and I must say your photos are so enticing I want to try all your recipes =)