Hello you lovely people! Right, I'm in my Test Kitchen at work where I am pretty
much every day writing and developing and with my main man Santi in the
background who we've worked together for so many years it's unbelievable, 20 years.
So, look we're going to do some eggs simple baked egg. A brilliant
alternative to your usual fried scrambled or poached eggs. It's always
nice to have another egg recipe they're so quick. And it's a really really sort
of thing just to kind of get you into that sort of breakfast weekend brunch
kind of vibe. And what I'm going to do is just show you the basic preparation.
So, look first up get yourself a little dish. Get some butter and just rub it around
the edge. This is for a straight baked coddled egg. Now of course, you can season
it but that also means you could put spice in it, could be some curry powder.
Think kind of like Indian eggs or remove that. You could have like truffles if
you're in France a little bit posh. So essentially rub your butter and then get
your eggs and you bake it. Cook it pretty much as you would any other eggs that
you like. If you like it cooked through, cook it through, if you like it a little
soft, cook it soft. So you can whack these in the oven and you can keep an eye on
them and you just kind of like touch them and see how they're doing.
But this is your basic coddled egg. This one santi we can just whack that
straight in the oven. If you want you can get a little bit more adventurous. So,
what does that mean? Well, you could use things like avocado, you could use things
like cherry tomatoes, you can use things like mozzarella. So okay, let's do an
Italian coddled egg, let's do that. So, I'm gonna grab a nice dish. We're not going
to use butter, we use olive oil. We'll have a little rub up, salt and pepper
again. Nice! Then we're gonna go some lovely eggs. On the story of eggs, of
course, you could have beautiful goose eggs, chicken eggs, you can use
a little quail eggs the ones down here, really really nice. These are duck eggs
here. Look at the size of those beautiful so these are take about four minutes -
five minutes in the oven. And then what I want to do is just pair these up with
the classic combo. Right, so beautiful cherry tomatoes. We'll cut those in half.
So, the eggs are only going to cook for like, lets say, four minutes. So, you need
to think about that when you're putting anything with it, the cherry tomatoes.
If you think they won't get cooked enough. You can go into quarters.
The mozzarella that'll probably ooze in four minutes, nice. So, in we go with the
beautiful cherry tomatoes. We can take a little mozzarella and just a little bit,
we'll just put little bombs of mozzarella in and around this. But for
Sunday brunch that in the middle of the table
just heated your ciabatta up, you know, maybe some prosciutto, maybe a little
Prosecco, come on it's Saturday. It's Sunday. It's the weekend! Do you know what
I mean. So, I think that's what I'm trying to get out of this little session, is the
idea, instead of frying, scrambling or poaching eggs, there is other things.
Then even simple things like chilli. If you like to spice it up a little bit.
Very very nice. We're going with some olive oil. Cracking
those eggs over the top of the chilies. Bold, brave, they're not particularly hot
but they look amazing and then the avocado. So, avocado is fantastic cooked.
Just slice it up a little bit of lime juice gives it a fantastic flavour and
that in and around our eggs. Beautiful and literally whack that under the grill
until it's cooked to your liking. So, these are just ideas guys. So, think about
things you like. Have fun with it. So we've got the first one done from under
the grill. Have a little look at that. See the avocados got some nice color there.
A few bits of coriander over the top. By the way, baked avocado is incredible,
Simple coddled egg, nothing else, you can see how elegant that is.
We've got a lovely Italian one here with the melting mozzarella, the tomatoes. Finish that with
marjoram, just colorful exciting. So there you go guys! Very simple baked eggs.
It's just exciting, it's fun but most importantly it's the tip of the iceberg.
What would you do? What's your favorite combination.
Put it in the comments box below. Until later, lots of love from me and the one and
only Brazilian banana... Santos! Ciao!