Makes breakfast for two.
Approximate cooking time: 35 minutes
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Note: Items in photo may be slightly different than recipe.Ingredients
- 6 strips nitrite/nitrate free bacon
- melted bacon fat for brushing tins
- 4 eggs
- 1 small to medium tomato, cut into 4 (1/2 inch) slices
- 1/3 cup onions, chopped
- 3-4 white button mushrooms, chopped
- 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325℉.
- Cook bacon in a skillet over medium heat until it begins to shrivel (about 3 minutes). Remove bacon from pan and set aside.
- Discard all but a shallow film of bacon fat in the bottom of the skillet.
- Brush 4 cups in a muffin tin or 4 small ramekins with bacon fat from the pan.
- Add chopped onions and mushrooms to hot pan with remaining bacon drippings in the skillet and cook over medium heat until softened.
- Meanwhile, place a tomato slice in the bottom of each cup. Circle the inside of each cup with 1-1/2 strips of bacon.
- Break an egg into each muffin cup and season with pepper.
- Add sauteed mushrooms and onions over the egg.
- Fill any unused tins with water to protect from burning.
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
- To serve, loosen the edges of the eggs with spatula and transfer the eggs to plates.
Alternate method: You can bake the bacon as well. Line a baking sheet with foil, and place bacon in neat strips. Place in the oven and turn on the oven to 400 degrees (don't pre-heat oven). After about 13-15 minutes, it'll be perfect to pull out and line the muffin tins. This prevents the bacon from getting too crisp in areas and not bending well enough. However, throw two strips in a pan on medium-high heat, and half-way through cooking, pull them out, dice them up, and then toss them and the onions and mushrooms in all together. Sautee, then sprinkle on top of the cups (as in step 8 above) before you bake them.
9 Comments
Is bacon OK
fatcats51
this is actually pretty good. I would either increase the temp to 375 and keep the time to 20 min or keep the temp at 325 and increase to 30 minutes. 20 minutes at 325 simply isn’t enough to bake the eggs thoroughly.
cshiflett
20 minutes at 350 does the trick for me.
I’ve done a variation of this with chorizo crumbled and pressed into the bottom of the cup instead of tomato. I typically use turkey bacon instead of regular to even out the fat. Delicious and easy!
Also, I make 12 at a time, put these in sandwich bags and microwave for about 20 seconds for the rest of the week. My boyfriend always eats at least 2 at a time, so I make a full dozen.
Allison
Might be a silly question…but are the egg yolks supposed to be runny or solid?
jraleigh
Sorry, I had to scramble the eggs before I put them in. Hehe.
lydaugherty
added some jalapeno to that mix, nomnomnom
lacosteaef
@Jralieigh : mine were runny but i like that. it’s like having a sauce for the whole thing :}
rmckeown77
This was my first paleo meal and it was delicious! My husband gave it 5 out of 5 stars. Thanks for the great start to our lifestyle change.
clconroy
DELICIOUS!!!!! Love that you can make ahead of time & just reheat. This was so good! Thanks for sharing!
Dawn