Huevos Rancheros inspired Breakfast Tostadas featuring crispy tortillas, seasoned refried beans, fluffy eggs, and a mountain of tasty toppings. Breakfast is served!
How do you like your eggs?
Scrambled? Sunny-Side up? Fried to crispy perfection? Or maybe soft and swirled with cheese?
Well when it comes to these baller breakfast tostadas… ANYTHING GOES!
Since I’m queen of indecision, I made both fried and scrambled eggs for this tasty tostada recipe.
Breakfast Tostadas
The recipe is CRAZY simple and gloriously customizable.
For the tostada shell itself, you can buy them pre-crisped at the grocery store in the tortilla aisle or make your own using soft corn tortillas.
Once we have a crispity crunchity base, we’ll cover it with creamy refried beans seasoned with a blend of garlic, cumin, chili powder, and cayenne. And as a speedy shortcut, you can even use pre-made taco seasoning here!
Next we’ll whip up a fresh and tasty Pico de Gallo using ripe tomatoes, onion, cilantro, and lime juice — the perfect topping for our fried or scrambled eggs!
All that’s left to do is choose your favorite “extras” and dig in!
If you’re one of my T-Rex friends, feel free to add your favorite protein to the mix. Chorizo, breakfast sausage, shredded chicken, pulled pork, etc… are all excellent additions!
tasty topping and optional extras:
- chopped cilantro or green onion
- grated cheddar cheese
- jarred salsa
- black bean salsa
- corn salsa
- pickled red onions
- guacamole or sliced avocado
- shredded lettuce or slaw
- sliced jalapeños
- hot sauce
The possibilities for these bad boys are endless! Keep things SUPER SIMPLE for a speedy and satisfying breakfast or take a build-your-own-brunch approach with a table full of toppings everyone can use to customize their own tostadas.
Breakfast Tostadas
Ingredients
- 4 crispy tostadas (see notes for a DIY version)
- 1 cup vegetarian refried beans
- ½ tsp chili powder
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp ground cumin
- ⅛ tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 cup pico de gallo
- 4 large eggs
- salt and pepper to taste
TASTY TOPPINGS: Choose your favorites!
- fresh cilantro
- chopped green onion
- grated cheese
- salsa
- hot sauce
- guacamole
- sliced avocado
- shredded lettuce or cabbage slaw
- Everything bagel seasoning
PICO DE GALLO
- 3 plum/Roma tomatoes
- ½ cup finely diced white onion
- ⅛-¼ cup fresh chopped cilantro
- 1 TBSP fresh lime juice plus extra to taste
- ½ tsp salt plus extra to taste
Instructions
FIRST MAKE THE PICO
- Core the tomatoes where the stem used to be and cut each tomato in half. Scoop out the seeds and finely dice. The smaller you dice them the better! Peel and finely chop white onion.
- Combine with fresh lime juice and fresh chopped cilantro. Season with salt. Adjust lime/cilantro/salt recipe to taste if desired by adding extra of your favorites. For an optional something extra, feel free to add a drizzle of avocado oil at the end if you have some handy.
SEASON THE BEANS
- Add spices (chili powder, garlic powder, cumin, and cayenne) to refried beans and mix well.
- Feel free to make the beans mild, medium, or spicy. For extra saucy beans, you can even stir a little salsa or hot sauce into the season beans if you'd like. It's super tasty!
BAKE THE TOSTADAS
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Spread seasoned refried beans onto each tostada then arrange on a prepared baking sheet. Bake for 3 to 5 minutes until tostada is crispy and beans are nice and hot.
FRY OR SCRAMBLE THE EGGS
- While the tostadas bake, cook eggs via favorite method. You can scramble them with a little cheese or pan-fry them until crispy and sunny-side up! Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Once the tostadas are ready, top with your eggs, pico de gallo, and choice of toppings. Dive in while they're hot and crispy!
Notes
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Lightly spray both sides of the tortillas with all-natural cooking spray and place them in a single layer on a baking sheet spritzed with oil.
- Sprinkle with a teeny pinch of salt and bake for 10 minutes, flipping them over at the 5-minute mark to nicely crisp both sides.
Nutrition
more breakfast favorites
Jazz things up with a bowl of Breakfast Cauliflower Fried Rice! This tasty cauliflower rice is sautéed with colorful veggies, fluffy eggs, and crispy bacon, then drizzled with a homemade yum sauce for a totally irresistible breakfast bowl!
Meal prep like a superstar with a batch of make-ahead Breakfast Burritos.
If you get a chance to try these baller breakfast tostadas, let me know!
Leave some love in the comment form below or tag your photos with @peasandcrayons on Instagram so I can happy dance over your creation. I can’t wait to see what you whip up!
Questions & Reviews
These are so tasty! I agree them for a solid week after I found this recipe on Instagram.
So glad the recipe was a hit! Thanks Viki!
Absolutely delicious and super easy!
Two of my favorite toppings are pickled jalapenos chopped very fine, and sliced black olives, not necessarily together. I also like to add fresh lime juice to my beans.
These are SO delicious! Full of flavor and a fun way to switch up breakfast!
So glad you’re loving them Taylor – thanks!
just made this. incredible!! thank you!
Yay!!!! So glad you enjoyed them Lauren! xo