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Egg in a Nest

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Instead of serving your egg on toast, try serving it in toast. This breakfast classic, also known as Egg in a Saddle, Egyptian Egg, One Eye, and Bird in a Nest, is a long-standing favorite.

Ingredients:

  • 1 egg
  • 1 slice of bread
  • 1 tablespoon butter

Directions:

  1. Crack the egg into a bowl and set the bowl aside.
  2. Use a 3-inch cookie cutter (circle, heart, star, or flower) to cut a shape out of the piece of bread.
  3. Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Place the bread in the pan and fry it lightly on one side (you can also fry the cutout shape). Flip the bread over. Reduce the heat to low.
  4. Carefully pour the egg into the cut-out hole in the middle of the bread. Cover the pan and cook for 2-3 minutes or until the egg has set in the bread "nest." For an over-easy egg, flip the egg and bread and cook it on the other side. Serves 1.


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Egg in a Nest

add913
add913 says:
August 24, 2009

I love these, except I make them in the toaster oven. I spray the baking sheet with cooking spray, butter the tops of bread, lay the bread on the sheet, make my cut out, place the egg in each cutout, and pop them into a toaster oven at 350-375 and let them cook to desired doneness ( 3-5 minutes) and this way I dont have to stand over them while they cook. Really handy when getting ready for school or work.

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Odwerki
Odwerki says:
June 15, 2009

Other than the shape idea this is an old favorite. Only my family has always referred to them as a toad in a hole.Very delicious. I've also scrambled the egg before since my oldest child doesn't like sunny side up. Dashing a little paprika on the finished product is also yummy.

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Courtney_Cagle
March 09, 2008

I love this idea. It is great and easy to do. My friends and I call them bull's eye's.

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