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Gemma's Bold Baking Breakfast Italian Baked Eggs
Hi Bold Bakers! This is the third week of my breakfast series. After today, you'll have
a lot of new recipes to create any breakfast or brunch menu for Mother's Day or any special
occasion. These recipes are guaranteed to fuel you and start your day off right. This
week, we are making Italian Baked Eggs. So let's get started.
So what are Italian Baked Eggs? They are eggs cooked in a marinara sauce. Eggs and tomato
sauce go really well together. It's a little bit zesty. A little bit sweet. We're going
to put some cheese on top and it's going to be gorgeous.
We're going to start out by making our marinara sauce. You want to finely chop some onion.
And some garlic. A little tip when chopping garlic is sprinkle some salt on the
chopping board. Salt causes traction on your chopping board and it allows you to mush your
garlic like this.
It's a really good trick my mammy Stafford taught me many years ago.
Our next step is to gently sauté our ingredients. So in a heavy bottomed pan, we're going to
add in some olive oil and gently saute our onions. Saute means to cook. To get nice and
tender and translucent but not to brown. Once your onions are cooked off well, we're going
to add in our garlic.
You never add in your garlic at the same time as the onions because it cooks so much faster.
So you add it in when the onions are done.
The secret to getting really good flavor in your sauces is cooking off your onions and
garlic really well. It gives it really good flavor and then you can add in the rest of
your ingredients.
Something that's not as traditional, I'm adding some dried chili flakes or you can use fresh
chilies. Chili works really well with eggs. A little bit of spice gives it really good
flavor.
I like to cook in any spices or even herbs directly on the pan before I add in any liquid.
I feel like it releases the flavor a lot better.
Once these ingredients are cooked really well, we're going to add in our crushed tomatoes.
To this sauce right now you can add in some thyme or even oregano. It will taste really good.
So all we're going to do is let this come to a simmer and cook it for a few minutes
and then it's done.
As you can see, marinara is incredibly easy to make and it's not just good for this dish.
It is good for pizza sauce, for pasta, and even for meat sauce. It is so versatile. And
for this, you can make it in advance and just have it in your fridge for whenever you want
baked eggs.
After a few minutes of simmering, our marinara sauce is done.
The very last thing I want to do is just to season it with a little bit of salt and pepper.
I want to give it a little taste just to make sure this seasoning is right. Oh, it's yummy.
One thing it is is a little bit acidic which comes from the tomato so how you can balance
that out is to add a little bit of sugar. Not a lot of people think about sugar as seasoning
but it actually works really well with tomatoes to balance out that acidity.
Give it one more taste. Yes, it's perfect. It has a nice kick from the chili. It's going
to be really good. We're going to set this aside and let it cool down a little bit and
then we're going to assemble our dish.
To cook my eggs, I'm going to do single servings in a little terra-cotta dish that I have.
You can use any dish you want or even one large dish just make sure they're oven safe.
Spoon your marinara sauce into your little dishes. And then make a little well in the middle where
your egg is going to go. Into the center of your marinara, crack in one big lovely egg.
And on the top I like to sprinkle on a little bit of sharp cheddar. But you can add any
cheese that you like.
So one of the reasons that I really wanted to show you how to cook eggs is because they
are the ultimate fast food. They're really inexpensive, you nearly always have them in
the fridge, and you can have them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
This is such an incredibly easy dish to make and yet so rewarding.
So our little eggs are ready for the oven. If you want them a little bit softer then
you can cook them less. It's all up to your preference and how you like your eggs cooked.
The measurements for my recipes can be found below the video on YouTube in the description
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Our timer has gone off so let's check on our eggs. Oh, my gosh. They're bubbling and brown.
And they smell gorgeous. I can't wait to try these. They look fantastic.
I like to serve mine with freshly chopped basil on top it just brings a nice element
of freshness. And of course a little bit of toast to dip into your egg. This dish will be
the perfect start to your day.
This is so delicious. I really hope you guys get to try this out.
Thank you so much for watching my breakfast series. I really hope you enjoyed it. This
is the first time I've done sweet and savory recipes so let me know what your thoughts
are or if you have any other recipe requests. Thank you so much for subscribing to my channel
and I'll see you back here again next Thursday for more Bigger Bolder Baking.