PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — In this edition of The Dish, we’re making breakfast tacos with Tex-Mex flair from Taco Heart in South Philadelphia.
They just won the People’s Choice Breakfast of Champions award at The Tasties.
The trick to their most popular breakfast taco, the Migas, might surprise you.
“I didn’t grow up with this food,” says Mount Airy native and owner, Nano Wheedan. “I moved to Texas in 2004 to play music.”
The Dish: Tex-Mex breakfast tacos from Taco Heart in South Philadelphia
That’s where a Tex-Mex breakfast sandwich changed his life plan.
“I found breakfast tacos, fresh flour tortillas,” he says. “They changed my life. I knew that I really wanted to bring it back to Philly.”
Wheedan opened Taco Heart in 2022. You can’t miss it on the now colorful triangular intersection of 7th Street and Passyunk Avenue.
The Tex-Mex taco shop specializes in breakfast tacos and fresh flour tortillas, which they make in-house.
“We do fajitas. We do fish tacos. We do bowls,” says Wheedan. “I call it Taco Heart because where my heart is, there’s a taco.”
We came for the secrets to the Migas, where scrambled eggs cozy up with crushed tortilla chips.
“The chips go into the scrambled eggs, kind of like give it more body, just have a little crunch to it,” says Wheedan. “It’s like putting potato chips in your sandwich.”
The Migas Breakfast Taco recipe from Taco Heart
Ingredients:
– Eggs
– Crushed tortilla chips
– Diced tomato
– Diced onion
– Chopped cilantro
– Shredded Monterey Jack cheese
– Sliced avocado
– Flour tortilla, warmed
– Pinch of salt
Directions:
1. Season the tomato, onion and cilantro with a little salt and sautee until the onions become translucent.
2. Add the crushed tortilla chips and then the egg.
3. Give it all a quick scramble in a pan, with a little oil.
4. Transfer to a nice warm tortilla and then add shredded Monterey jack cheese and avocado.
5. Wrap it up like a little burrito and enjoy!
Note: To kick it up a notch, add crumbled sausage into the stovetop mixture and garnish with jalapenos and homemade queso.
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