Huevos Motuleños with Smoked Duck and Mushrooms a la Cazuelita

Preparation info
  • Makes

    8

    Servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Convivir: Modern Mexican Cuisine in California’s Wine Country

By Rogelio Garcia

Published 2024

  • About

Huevos motuleños—tortillas topped with beans, salsa, ham, cheese, and fried eggs—are named for the town of Motul, Yucatán, where an annual festival is held to celebrate the dish. In July 2018, an article in Yucatán Magazine put forth two different origin stories, both with a Lebanese connection. One credited Lebanese-Yucatec chef Jorge Siqueff, who, according to Evelia Sánchez, a Mayan cook from Motul, created it in the early 1920s to serve to Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Diego R