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Huevos motuleños

"eggs Motul style"

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WEH·bos moh·too·LEH·nyos

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Spanish huevoseggs+motuleñosfrom Motul, Yucatán

What Huevos motuleños means

Huevos motuleños is a Mexican main dish name of Spanish origin meaning "eggs Motul style". It is built from Spanish huevos (eggs) and motuleños (from Motul, Yucatán). It is pronounced WEH-bos moh-too-LEH-nyos, and it is most associated with Yucatán.

Motul is a Yucatecan town whose Maya name is older than the dish. The attribution to a particular cook there in the 1930s is local tradition rather than record.

This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The plated dishes, most named for a cooking method or a place. Cochinita pibil is pork cooked in a píib, the Maya earth oven. Barbacoa gave English the word barbecue. Chiles en nogada is named for the walnut sauce that covers it.

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Huevos motuleños means eggs Motul style

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