hello this is chef john from food wishes kama lib fried cheese egg toast that's
right you want something delicious for breakfast but none of your usual options
sound good which means you're in what we call them the business erupted and don't
feel bad it happens to the best of us but anyway good news if you're currently
suffering through that since fried cheese egg toast is one of my all-time
favorite breakfast rut Buster's plus recipes like this can actually help you
improve your cooking skills and I will attempt to explain why later but for now
let's just go ahead and get started by tossing a small handful of grated
cheddar cheese into this nonstick skillet we've set over medium heat and
I'm using just under 1 ounce which is a little bit stingy probably just over 1
ounces the perfect amount and if possible try to get some sort of rounded
shape unlike mine which was a little random and what we're looking for here
before we add our egg is for that cheese to melt and start bubbling and start to
get a little bit browned around the outside edge and once that happens we're
going to do two things one is optional and that would be to sprinkle down some
hot pepper flakes which brings us to our non optional second thing we will
attempt to place one large egg in the center or somewhere close to it but
before I do I'm going to touch the center of my cheese mixture with the tip
of my spatula for no apparent reason I guess I was trying to make a well for
the egg to sit in but I quickly realized you can't but anyway we'll place our egg
down trying to keep that yolk somewhere remotely close to the center and then
what we'll do once we have our egg positioned is take the tip of our
spatula and poke it through that invisible membrane that sort of holds
the white together which should if everything goes according to plan cause
some of that white to run out and sort of flatten out and it will probably cook
a little bit quicker and more evenly and then besides dealing with a few rogue
pieces of cheese all we're gonna do is hang out and keep an eye on this and
basically we're waiting for that cheese to get beautifully browned as well as
our egg way to cook almost but not quite all the way through and at that point we
will attempt to fold this all up hopefully in a shape remotely close to
the shape of our slice of toast and the reason making something like this
improves your skills is because it forces you to react to what you're
seeing and feeling in the pan okay doesn't matter what the written recipe
says you're gonna have to decide when exactly
fold this up which for me was right here because they could see my cheese was
getting nicely browned and the blade was just about set and at that point we'll
go around with our spatula scraping everything up over the top
somehow in case scenario can that fried cheese which as you can see has been
sort of fused to the egg white and one of the many great things about fried
cheese is that as soon as it comes up off that pan it basically firms up
almost immediately which makes it fairly easy to manipulate and don't worry about
trying to get this perfect in fact this is probably one of the worst looking
ones I've ever made but it doesn't matter because once this is on the toast
it always looks amazing and then what we'll do once all those
sides have been sort of folded up and over is simply wait until we think it's
cooked long enough which is probably only gonna be a couple seconds since
like I said we really do want to keep that yolk runny and for mine I decided
it was perfect right here so we'll pull that off and transfer it onto a piece of
toast and besides pulling off any unsightly
cheese remanence I like topping this with a few green onions and that's it
what we're calling fried cheese egg toast is done and before I tell you why
this is such an amazing breakfast let me have you listen to the reason
oh yeah it is the combo of that crispy fried cheese surrounding that soft runny
egg that creates all the magic here so let me go ahead and dig in and buy dig
in what I mean is take the tip of the fork and bust that egg right in the yolk
and then we'll sort of strategically spread that around so every bite has
some Jochen it all right you might be okay with a couple of yolk list bites
but not me and then before I stick this in my face I'm gonna finish off with a
little pinch of salt and since I hadn't had one of these in a while I actually
forgot how unbelievably delicious they're all right we already talked
about that contrast between the crispy cheese and the runny egg which really is
a hard combo to beat both taste wise and texturally just insanely good and I'm
not sure what thoughts are gonna pop into your brain as you're eating this
but what always pops into mine is why didn't you make two why did you not make
two right you hear people say less is more not with this recipe
more is more oh and speaking of more if you want to add some bacon or diced ham
to this that would be good so feel free to accessorize since you are after all
the hosts of this fried cheese egg toast but truth be told I really do enjoy more
in this primitive state but anyway that's it fried cheese egg toast if this
ends up catching on we might have to come up with a little better name but
for now we'll stick with a very simple uneffective fried cheese egg toast and
whether you're in a breakfast rut that needs to be busted or you just feel like
eating a runny egg with fried cheese wrapped around it I really do hope you
give this a try soon so head over to food wishes com for all the ingredient
amounts and more info as usual and as always enjoy
you