huevo ranchero
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9.0
- noun
- /ˈweɪvoʊ rænˈtʃɛroʊ/
- US
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huevo ranchero
- For breakfast, I ordered a plate of huevos rancheros topped with fresh salsa.
- serve huevo ranchero
- make huevo ranchero
- huevo ranchero eggs
Examples
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At the popular diner, you can enjoy huevos rancheros served with warm tortillas.
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I wish I were looking at that and eating a nice plate of huevos rancheros chips and salsa and a nice Margarita on a hot day like this is.
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Can your mama make huevos rancheros?
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The special today is huevos rancheros.
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We finished lunch, we had huevos rancheros, and now we're heading to Salva House.
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Hollis is sitting alone in a booth, working on some huevos rancheros.
Fiction book (1996) -
"A few more plates of huevos rancheros," he said, "and I think it'll be time for me to come home."
Fiction book (2000) -
Jesus Maria saw Manuel and Gabriel waiting for her to serve them the huevos rancheros she had made for them.
Fiction book (1990) -
I will run to the store and get eggs and salsa for huevos rancheros, you stay here and whip up margaritas.
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Three weeks later, Keller was eating huevos rancheros at Call Me Carlos, on the edge of Albuquerque's Old Town.
Fiction book (2000)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'huevos' (eggs) and 'ranchero' (ranch-style) make clear that this is an egg dish prepared in a traditional/ranch manner, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer a rural/Mexican-style egg preparation. However, the exact recipe details (tortillas, tomato–chile sauce) are culturally specific and not fully predictable from the words alone, so the phrase is only partially compositional.
Etymology
The dish name huevo ranchero comes from the Mexican countryside: huevo means 'egg' and ranchero means 'from the ranch'. One popular story says ranch workers ate fried eggs on tortillas with a spicy sauce for a quick, strong breakfast, so the name came to mean this Mexican breakfast dish.