Machacado con huevo explained

Machacado con huevo
Country:Northern Mexico
Course:Breakfast
Main Ingredient:Machaca, eggs, tomatoes, onions and jalapeños or serrano chili peppers
Variations:Salsa

Machacado con huevo, Machaca con huevo, or Huevos con machaca is a dish consisting of shredded dry beef that is scrambled with eggs. Its name means "shredded with eggs" in Spanish. The shredded dry beef, carne seca or "machaca", is said to have originated in the town of Ciénega de Flores, about an hour's drive north of Monterrey, Mexico.[1] [2] The early settlers in the area air-cured beef so that it would be preserved.[3] [4] [5]

The basic machacado con huevo is made with eggs and dried beef. Chopped tomatoes, onions and jalapeños or serrano chili peppers can be added, or salsa can be cooked into it, to create another version. This is a traditional dish in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León that is usually eaten at breakfast, but was also eaten at other meals.[6] In the US, this breakfast or brunch dish is popular in Texas.[7] [8] [9]

History

According to one legend, the dish was invented in the 1920s by Fidencia Quiroga, who was known locally as "Tía Lencha" (Aunt Lencha).[10] Although there is minimal evidence that the dish originated with her, there is little doubt that she popularized it when she began to serve it in her restaurant to construction workers building the nearby Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo highway in 1928.[11] As a result of her association with machacado con huevo, a major manufacturer of the shredded dried beef that is used in it—Productos Alimenticios Tia Lencha SA—is named after her.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: El origen del machacado con huevo . 3 November 2013 . Mitos y leyendas de Homero Adame . Homero . Adame . es . The origin of machacado con huevo.
  2. News: Machacado con huevo, una tradición muy regia . 9 April 2014 . . es . Machacado con huevo, a royal tradition . . 29 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140429050725/http://www.telemundo52.com/mexico/Machacado-con-huevo-una-tradicion-muy-regia-254373381.html . 29 April 2014 . dead .
  3. News: Latino Recipes For The Holidays: Machaca Con Huevos . . 26 December 2013 . .
  4. Book: Kennedy, Diana . The Cuisines of Mexico . Diana Kennedy . . 1986 . 9780061814815 . 244–245.
  5. News: Latino Recipes For The Holidays: Machaca Con Huevos . . December 26, 2013 . Stephen . Chavez . Art . Rodriguez.
  6. Web site: A breakfast of machaca con huevos . August 19, 2014 . Alhambra Source . Stephen . Chavez . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141224205739/http://www.alhambrasource.org/news/breakfast-machaca-con-huevos . December 24, 2014 .
  7. News: On The Range: Machacado Con Huevos . . 25 November 2009 . Chris . Meesey.
  8. News: Machacado con Huevos . . 1 February 2010 . Robb . Walsh.
  9. News: Morning Machaca: This tiny East End restaurant — attached to a dried-beef factory — serves tasty, old-school Tex-Mex classics . . 8 February 2012 . Katharine . Shilcutt.
  10. Web site: La tía Lencha y el machacado con huevo . SabinasHidalgo.net . 1 March 2012 . es . Antonio . Guerrero Aguilar . Aunt Lencha and machacado con huevo.
  11. News: Tía Lencha ampliará su mercado de exportación . El Economista . 22 March 2012 . Armando . Torres . es . Tía Lencha expand its export market.
  12. Web site: Nuestra Historia . Tía Lencha . es . . .