Egg in a Nest Recipe
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For a more sophisticated variation, beat the eggs together with fresh minced herbs and rub the bread with a little roasted garlic before you start.
This recipe was featured as part of our Easy Hot Breakfasts in 15 Minutes.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 (1-inch-thick) slices bread
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2 large eggs
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
INSTRUCTIONS
- Cut or tear a 2-inch hole out of the center of each slice of bread.
- Melt the butter in a large nonstick frying pan over medium heat until foaming. Add the bread slices. Crack an egg into each bread hole, season with salt and pepper, and cook until the bottoms are golden brown, about 3 to 4 minutes. Using a flat spatula, flip and cook until the second side is golden brown, about 3 minutes more for runny yolks. Serve immediately.
My mom made these for us growing up all the time. We called them Birds Nests.
Egg-in-the-hole!!! Remember when I learned to make this as a kid and would have as an after school snack. I butter the bread directly on both sides, fry one side, then flip and add the egg, finish it off with one more flip. And yes, the "hole" is the best part...
Cowboy Pancake is the name I grew up with. I make this at least three mornings a week for my 10 y/o and he loves it every time.
grew up calling it "egg in a hole" and the best part was the "tasty toasty" that came out of the hole, mmmmmmmmmmm comfort food---works like a charm.
In DC in the late 50's this was called a 'Wesson nest egg' which I assume meant it was cooked in oil rather than butter (which is what I have used for, well, lots of years.
I call this "Egg in a Frame" and have been making it since I was a kid. It's just so good! I taught a friend how to make it the other day, and she loved it.
I've always known it as "Egg-In-Toast"... Whatever you call it, it is delicious and easy to make. Some pictures of our version here:
http://menuinprogress.com/2008/05/egg...
Also known as 'Bullseye'. What I like to do is use a big slice of San Fransciso Brand Sourdough for the bread...Both sides well coated with soft butter or margarine and sprinkled with some grated parmesean cheese and toasted to a golden brown crunchy consistency. The sourdough and parmesean really kick up the flavor of this old favorite. As a side note. For those who are familiar with the movie Moonstruck...At the end of the movie Olympia Dukakus's charcter is making a Birds Eye/Bullseye breakfast. There's a shot of the pan and it looks like some long slices of canned Italian roasted red peppers have been added to the pan. Or it might have even been tomatoes. Anybody else notice that? Wonder if it's an Italian thing???
Also known as 'Bullseye'. What I like to do is use a big slice of San Fransciso Brand Sourdough for the bread...Both sides well coated with soft butter or margarine and sprinkled with some grated parmesean cheese. The sourdough and parmesean really kick up the flavor of this old favorite. As a side note. For those who are familiar with the movie Moonstruck...At the end of the movie Olympia Dukakus's charcter is making a Birds Eye/Bullseye breakfast. There's a shot of the pan and it looks like some long slices of canned Italian roasted red peppers have been added to the pan. Or it might have even been tomatoes. Anybody else notice that? Wonder if it's an Italian thing???
Always called a "birds nest" where I came from in New York State. It was one of the second things children learned to cook. The first was a bird's nest without the egg - take a piece of bread (don't rip out the center), butter it liberally on both sides, fry it - and call it "army toast." I haven't thought about a bird's nest in a long time - think I will have one tomorrow morning. Yumm.
I bet it would be great if you rubbed the bread with a cut clove of raw garlic, too. At Campanile (LA restaurant) they make this for brunch with olive bread. Yum!
My 11 y/o loves this. i remember the girlfriend who taught me this in college with great affection!
I've always fried both sides of the bread, then added the egg and cooked sunny side up.
we called it "toad in the hole" and the crispy bread bit "taxes" also used garlic salt instead of plain salt. yumm
Oooh, I miss this. My dad called it a "bird's nest." As snarky teens, we called it "egg in the hole in the bread," but loved the novelty none the less. It was always a good Sunday morning when there was EITHITB on the breakfast table.
We called these "Bull's Eye" growing up - ditto the thought on the little piece of bread that comes out of the middle. Add a nice cold glass of chocolate milk and this is the ultimate comfort food breakfast for me.
Thank you for this wonderfully simple recipe. One can easily dress this up with some grated cheese on top and some freshly chopped basil or oregano or cilantro or whatever your in the mood for! I can't wait till Saturday when I can cook this up for breakfast.
A chippy sandwich is pretty much what it sounds like. Although usually called chipbutty in UK. Hot pototo chips,not crisps in bread, and with whatever else you might fancy added in.
The One-Eyed Connelly from my yutes! Arrrrr. Hey weremonkey, I remember chippy sandwiches as potato chips on whole grain bread, usually skooshed together with some sort of rubbery deli meat and cemented with nuclear yellow French's mutard. Could it be what you were thinking of?
Thanks. Now I just need to know what a chippy sandwich is. Anyone grow up with that?
You forgot the BEST part....frying the little piece of bread when you cut out the hole!!....We also call it 'toad in the hole'!
Someone needed a recipe for this?
we called these "frogs in a hole" and have heard "toad in the hole" as well referring to the same thing.
Toad in the hole is an English dish where sausages are cooked in a savoury batter, it is nothing like egg in a nest.