Egg parcels recipe
by Donal Skehan |
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Served as a breakfast for two, these egg parcels look as impressive as they taste.
At a glance
- Cuisine English
- Recipe Type Snack
- Difficulty Easy
- Preparation time 5 mins
- Cooking time 10 mins
- Serves 2 people
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- 2 Garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
- 50 g (1.8oz) Baby spinach leaves
- 6 Rashers of pancetta (about 90g/ 3.5oz), Sliced lengthways
- 75 g (2.6oz) Goat’s cheese, crumbled
- 4 Large eggs
- 1 pinch Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 Toasted Crusty sourdough bread, to serve
Step-by-step
- Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F), Gas mark 6.
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat, add the garlic and fry for 30 seconds. Add the spinach and cook until it has wilted. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside.
- Line four of the muffin tray hollows with the slices of pancetta. Add a spoonful of the spinach and garlic mix to each hollow and top with a little goat’s cheese. Crack an egg into each hollow and add a generous pinch of black pepper.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes until the white of each egg is set and the yolk still a little soft.
- Serve with some toasted crusty sourdough bread and enjoy for a hefty breakfast.
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Comments
by smurfettes | on 19 March 2012
Oh my goodness, you must try this? So yummy and so easy!
I did not do the spinach and garlic bit but just dropped the egg straight into the bacon nests. Served with toasted granary. A very filling and grown up dippy egg ;.)
by 53245861 | on 30 January 2013
So easy and so delicious - looks fab too!
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