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Egg in a Basket Recipe for Brunch

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This Egg in a Basket Recipe is a fun way of serving up eggs and toast, and if you use fancy bread and colorful breakfast sides, you can even pass eggs in a basket off as an upscale brunch dish. I like to cook my egg toast with a lot of butter, because this makes the bread rich and crispy like a crouton.

What You Need for this Egg Recipe

1 large EGG
1 slice BREAD
1-2 Tbsp BUTTER

Egg in a basket is a super simple breakfast dish to prepare, and a fun way to cook up breakfast for kids. But if you jazz the egg recipe up a bit, it can easily transform into a fancy brunch meal for anytime of the day.

How to Make an Egg in a Basket

  • Use a nice bread. In the video, I use a Thyme and Olive loaf. It’s super tasty all on it’s own, so it’s naturally going to elevate a simple egg in a basket dish.
  • I like to buy a whole bread loaf and slice it myself. A nice rustic cut of bread makes a dish fancier.
  • Cut your bread slices about ½ an inch thick, and don’t cut the egg hole in the bread TOO BIG. You want the egg to fill the hole, and not stretch out too thin. And you want enough bread surface around the hole to toast up.
  • Heat a skillet on low-medium heat. Add butter and melt.
  • Add in the bread slice and coat butter on one side, then turn the slice and butter up the other side. Let the bread grill for a minute or so until it begins to brown, then flip and let the other side grill.
  • Break an egg into the hole in the toast. Let the egg cook long enough to set, then flip the toast and let the egg cook on the other side.
  • Once the egg is cooked to your desire, remove the egg bread from the skillet and serve hot.
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A good skillet is essential for this kind of egg dish. You can check current prices for a shiny new Non-Stick Skillet on Amazon.

This is a cool recipe to serve over a salad, or anything you like, especially if you’re like me and enjoy over-easy style eggs. A runny yolk makes a great sauce! Also garnish your egg bread with cilantro, parsley, or your favorite fresh herbs, and this simple childhood dish will instantly become a fancy treat.

Do you have a favorite salad dressing or sauce? Drizzle a bit over egg in a basket, because that’s what they’d do in a hipster restaurant, and then charge you $20 for “Eggs al Basquet”.

For another fancy egg and bread dish, try an Egg Bread Bake Recipe.

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Fancy baked eggs to impress friends and family

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Poached Egg Recipe for Rich People

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Try a fancy poached egg recipe with smoked salmon, spinach and fennel. This recipe looks great, and tastes even better, and is super quick to prepare. Breakfast doesn’t get much fancier than this–it’s like a 5-star breakfast in your own home.

Fancy Poached Egg Recipe (serves 2)

4 EGGS
2 Tbsp WHITE VINEGAR
2 cups SPINACH
½ cup FENNEL BULB thinly sliced
1 GREEN ONION chopped
3-4 oz SMOKED SALMON
1 TOMATO sliced
¼ tsp GARLIC minced
¼ tsp GINGER minced
¼ tsp LEMON ZEST minced
1 tsp LEMON JUICE
2 tsp OLIVE OIL
SALT and PEPPER to taste
And fancy-pants BREAD for toast

How to Make Poached Egg with Salmon and Greens

  • Firstly, make the dressing. In a bowl combine the lemon juice, olive oil, lemon zest, ginger, garlic, salt, and pepper and then mix well.
  • Add in the spinach leaves, chopped onion, and thinly sliced fennel and toss with dressing.
  • On two plates, arrange 1 to 2 oz of smoked salmon, and top with the greens. I like to serve toast as a side with this dish, but you can build the salmon and greens on toast if you prefer. Now your breakfast is mostly made, you just have to poach the eggs.

How to Poach Eggs

  • Fill a nonstick skillet almost to the top with water. You will want the water between 1 and 2 inches deep.
  • Place the skillet on the stove top and add in the vinegar and stir.
  • Now heat the water until it begins to form bubbles on the bottom, almost to a simmer.
  • Crack your eggs into a smaller cup, and gently add them to the water.
  • Cover and poach eggs for about 3 minutes, or a little more or less depending on how runny you like the yolk.
  • With a slotted spoon, loosen the eggs from the skillet and remove from the water.
  • Set eggs a paper towel to drain. And that’s how to poach an egg!
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To finish your fancy breakfast, just top the salmon and greens with your poached eggs and that’s it! Garnish with a sprinkle of paprika or black pepper or chopped green onion and then serve hot while your yolks are saucy.

So, you love poached eggs but don’t want to poach them? Try steaming them, because it’s super easy and you can check out the current prices for a Rapid Egg Cooker on Amazon. I tried this gadget out and really liked it.

Give this fancy-pants salmon/fennel poached egg recipe a try and let me know what you think! And for another impressive breakfast/brunch idea, try this Fancy Oven-Baked Egg Recipe.

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Baked eggs are an easy way to impress folks for breakfast.

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