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Home » All » By Ingredient » Corn » Hominy » Mote pillo or Ecuadorian hominy with eggs

Mote pillo or Ecuadorian hominy with eggs

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Recipe for Ecuadorian mote pillo, this traditional breakfast dish consists of hominy sautéed with onions, garlic, achiote, eggs, milk, chives and cilantro or parsley, and served with hot black coffee and slices of fresh cheese.

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Ecuadorian mote pillo recipe

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Mote pillo is a traditional Ecuadorian dish of hominy corn with scrambled eggs. It is the perfect breakfast or brunch dish, but can also be served as main meal for lunch or a side dish for grilled or roasted meat dishes. Mote pillo is very easy and quick to make: the mote or hominy is sautéed with onions, garlic, achiote, eggs, milk, chives and cilantro or parsley.

Mote pillo recipe

Mote pillo is almost always served with hot black coffee and slices of fresh cheese. Mote or hominy is dry corn that has been peeled and then boiled until soft. You can cook the mote or hominy ahead of time, I usually make a large batch and keep some frozen so that it’s easily ready to make this dish.It is very easy to find it already prepared and canned in most grocery stores, usually in the canned vegetable section or in the ethnic section.

Ecuadorian mote pillo

This Ecuadorian hominy dish is a traditional dish from the highlands or Sierra region in Ecuador. The city of Cuenca (and the whole province of Azuay) claim this dish as their specialty. My hometown of Loja is a few hours away from Cuenca, so we also eat a lot of mote or hominy in Loja. To me this is really one of the best comfort foods, like many other dishes from the Sierra it warms me up inside when I eat it.

Ecuadorian mote pillo recipe

Mote pillo or hominy with eggs

Ecuadorian mote pillo consists of hominy corn sautéed with onions, garlic, achiote, eggs, milk, chives and cilantro or parsley, and served with hot black coffee and slices of fresh cheese
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Course: Breakfast, Brunch, Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine: Andean, Ecuadorian, Latin, South American
Keyword: Eggs, Hominy, Hominy with scrambled eggs, Mote pillo
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 1 lb cooked mote or hominy can also use canned hominy
  • 2 tbs butter
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup of diced white onion can also use spring onions (white part only) or leeks (white part only)
  • 2 garlic cloves crushed
  • ¼ tsp ground achiote
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 2 tbs chopped chives or scallions
  • 1 tbs finely chopped cilantro or parsley
  • Salt to taste

Serve with:

  • Queso fresco slices and black coffee

Instructions

  • Heat the butter over medium heat in a large sauté pan, add the chopped onions, crushed garlic, achiote, and salt to make a refrito, cook until the onions/leeks are soft, about 5 minutes.
  • Add the mote or hominy, stir in well and cook for another 2 minutes.
  • Add the milk and cook until the milk is almost all absorbed by the hominy.
  • Whisk the eggs and add them to the hominy, stir well and cook for about 3-5 minutes.
  • Stir in the chives and cilantro and add additional salt if needed.
  • Serve accompanied by queso fresco slices and hot black coffee.

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Making hominy and egg scramble
Cooking hominy and eggs

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  1. Meera says

    April 2, 2021 at 5:53 am

    Just tried this recipe and it was great! I purchased a bag of mote, not realizing that it wasn’t a prepared snack, and had no idea what to do with it. This dish was so yummy—thank you!

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  2. Andr says

    April 5, 2020 at 4:24 am

    Laylita thanks for all the recipes u post. You are my go to place when I need Ecuadorian food becuase feeling a little homesick. When I go to ecuador and need a list of ingredients that I want to bring back to the UK, I use your website to help build my list. Thanks a bunch!!! My non Ecuadorian boyfriend has used your website to surprise me with Ecuadorian food too lol!

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  3. Fatimavh says

    December 10, 2018 at 10:55 am

    Loved the recipe. I’m not Ecuadorian, but my husband is so I have been looking for simple recipes to make for him. So glad I found your Site!

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  4. Maria E. says

    April 5, 2018 at 11:26 am

    Amazing!!!
    I’m so happy to found this page!!!
    I am from Ecuador, and living away from our home town makes me miss a lot of our delicious food!!! I will try every recipe if I can find all the ingredients.
    Thank you for sharing one of the best things of our country!!!

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