Forget Bland Scrambled Eggs – Add This Mexican Meat For An Easy Yet Delicious Upgrade

Scrambled egg cooking mistakes are surprisingly abundant, especially considering what a simple dish this popular nom happens to be. Forgetting to properly season your eggs is a biggie when it comes to goofs that can ruin your breakfast ... and we don't mean just salt and pepper. Ways to improve scrambled eggs include add-ins like spices, milk, or other flavorful liquids, but, in our experience, chorizo is maybe the easiest way to upgrade eggs with one ingredient and transform them into something new and objectively fabulous.

Chorizo is a variety of spiced sausage that takes many forms. In Spain, it's fermented, cured, and so ubiquitous that the word "chorizo" is the root of "salchica," the Spanish moniker for all sausage. Chorizo has spread across Latin America, Asia, and Europe, including Portugal's beloved chouriço. In North America, however, Mexican chorizo is the most commonly available form of this meat. It's typically sold in the casing but can be removed for a loose sausage.

Incorporating chorizo into scrambled eggs couldn't be easier, honestly. You simply fry the sausage (ground or in cubes, depending on which kind you bring home) to render the fat and bring the chorizo to its desired level of crispness. At the point where the chorizo is cooked to satisfaction, simply add your whisked eggs to the skillet and scramble them like usual. It's a "hack" that even novice cooks can master ... and it's an upgrade that's ripe for riffing and experimentation. If you can scramble eggs, you can add chorizo for a flavor kick that's a little spicy, very unctuous, and deeply craveable.

Simply frying chorizo and scrambling eggs on top of it is a sound technique, to be sure, but it's massively customizable. For example, chorizo is a Mexican sausage, so why not go full Tex-Mex with your eggs and incorporate cooked onions and peppers, paprika, canned chilis, fresh salsa, and cheese? Crown these eggs with some leafy cilantro and even more queso (one TikTok creator suggests funky goat cheese as a topper), and you have a drool-worthy skillet ready to be scooped into warm corn tortillas, used as the base of a breakfast bowl with bacon and hashbrowns, or piled high on toast or a biscuit for an unforgettable sammie! Nor are these eggs solely a denizen of the breakfast domain; they're hearty enough to fill your belly after a long day at work.

We might even make the scrambled eggs moreish with our favorite hack of adding extra egg yolk to our bowl for a scramble that's vibrant in color and rich in flavor and texture. Will you stir cream into your eggs to make them fluffy or melted butter for lusciousness? No matter how you prefer the eggs themselves, you are guaranteed to ascend to a new level of cracking shells when you customize scrambled eggs with chorizo ... and maybe some bonus add-ins to turn your ho-hum breakfast into a bonafide sensation.