Tepita-Style Migas

Migas Tepitana

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Dos Caminos Mexican Street Food

By Ivy Stark

Published 2013

  • About

At Dos Caminos, we serve this classic Mexican breakfast like they make them in Mexico City: a bread-egg sopa (or soup), rather than the Tex-Mex version with scrambled eggs and tortillas. This dish is often made as a hangover cure using leftover bread, a reminder of its humble origins. (Migas means “crumbs.”) I first tasted migas in Tepito, a blue-collar barrio in the Colonia Morelos section of Mexico City, where there have been open-air markets since pre-Hispanic times. There are lines of s