Huevos al Comal

This is the simplest Oaxacan dish of all time. It almost doesn’t even need a recipe. Sure, Oaxacan food can be heavy, but then it is balanced with dishes like this one, essentially an egg toasted in a pan, with absolutely no oil, on top of Oaxaca’s sacred leaf, hoja santa. The egg gets a little crispy on the edge and soaks up all the flavor of the leaf. From the naturally occurring fat on its own, the flavor is so pure. We grew up eating this every single day in Oaxaca. There were days when