BreakfastLatin American · 15 min · 1 servingArepa pequeña con huevos pericos

Small arepa with perico scrambled eggs

Name: Small arepa with perico scrambled eggs
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: Latin American
Ingredients: 60 g (2 oz) small ready-made corn arepa; 110 g (4 oz) eggs (2 large); 60 g (2 oz) chopped tomato (about 1/3 cup); 20 g (0.7 oz) chopped onion or scallion (about 2 tablespoons); 3 g olive oil (1/2 teaspoon); Salt to taste

Each serving has 334 kcal, 17.9 g of protein, and 2.6 g of fiber, or 5.4 g of protein per 100 kcal. Ready in 15 minutes; makes 1 serving.

Easy to digest
Nutritious in small servings

Per serving

334 kcalCalories
17.9 gProtein
2.6 gFiber

Calculated ingredient by ingredient from USDA FoodData Central. 5.4 g of protein per 100 kcal.

Prepared by: Alex Gonzalez
Published: September 23, 2026
Sources: 6 primary

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Ingredients

1 serving

60 g2 ozsmall ready-made corn arepa
110 g4 ozeggs (2 large)
60 g2 ozchopped tomato (about 1/3 cup)
20 g0.7 ozchopped onion or scallion (about 2 tablespoons)
3 golive oil (1/2 teaspoon)

Plus, with no meaningful nutrition (not counted in the table):

Salt to taste

Weights are for each food as described on its page: raw, cooked, or drained, as noted. Grams are the reference used for the math; ounces and cups are rounded US equivalents.

Directions

Heat the arepa in a skillet or toaster until golden on the outside.
In another skillet, cook the onion in the oil for 2 minutes.
Add the tomato and cook 2 minutes more.
Beat the eggs with salt, pour them in, and stir over low heat until they set.
Split the arepa and fill it with the perico, or serve the eggs on the side.

Why it is filling

Huevos pericos, eggs scrambled with tomato and onion, are a classic breakfast in Colombia and Venezuela. The arepa is small here so that most of the plate is egg, which is where the protein comes from, and the tomato adds volume and water. It is a soft, warm dish that is easy to eat slowly.

In numbers, each serving has 17.9 g of protein and 2.6 g of fiber, with an energy density of 132 kcal per 100 g of the dish. In the satiety index by Holt and colleagues (1995), the foods that were most filling per calorie were those with more protein, fiber, and water and less fat.

Easy to digest: A soft dish with little fat (20 g or less per serving) and no large amounts of ingredients that often cause gas or nausea. This is an editorial call, not a measurement.
Nutritious in small servings: A serving of 300 g (about 10.5 oz) or less with at least 10 g of protein: a lot of nutrition in a small volume.

If your appetite is small

If a whole arepa fills you up too much, have half with all the perico.
Ready-made arepas freeze well and reheat straight from frozen in a skillet.

Nutrition facts

Values per serving, calculated from the ingredients. Protein per 100 kcal: 5.4 g.
Nutrient	Per serving
Calories	334 kcal
Protein	17.9 g
Carbohydrates	27.3 g
Fiber	2.6 g
Fat	16.8 g
Approximate weight	253 g (9 oz)

How it is calculated

Each ingredient contributes its per-100 g values from the site’s food database, multiplied by the amount in the recipe. Seasonings, water, and lemon or lime juice are not counted. It is an approximation: the actual size of the foods and how you cook them shift the result a little.

What each ingredient contributes to the whole recipe.
Ingredient	Amount	Calories	Protein	Fiber
Arepa	60 g	131 kcal	3.3 g	1.6 g
Egg	110 g	157 kcal	13.9 g	0 g
Tomato	60 g	11 kcal	0.5 g	0.7 g
Onion	20 g	8 kcal	0.2 g	0.3 g
Olive oil	3 g	27 kcal	0 g	0 g

To plan your meals

Daily protein calculator: an indicative protein range per day and per meal, to see how much of it this recipe covers.
Weekly menu for small appetites: seven days of small portions with the protein spread across meals, ready to print.

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Sources

Nutrition values for each ingredient (USDA FoodData Central) and the satiety reference, with the access date.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.USDA FoodData Central: Restaurant, Latino, arepa (unleavened cornmeal bread) (FDC ID 168070).accessed September 23, 2026.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.USDA FoodData Central: Egg, whole, raw, fresh (FDC ID 171287).accessed September 23, 2026.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.USDA FoodData Central: Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average (FDC ID 170457).accessed September 23, 2026.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.USDA FoodData Central: Onions, raw (FDC ID 170000).accessed September 23, 2026.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.USDA FoodData Central: Oil, olive, salad or cooking (FDC ID 171413).accessed September 23, 2026.
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (PubMed).Holt SH, Miller JC, Petocz P, Farmakalidis E. A satiety index of common foods. Eur J Clin Nutr. 1995;49(9):675-90.accessed September 23, 2026.