Spiced fried toast transforms egg in a hole into something exceptional

[Celerity]

Spiced Bread Egg in a Hole

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/05/12/spiced-fried-toast-transforms-egg-in-a-hole-into-something-exceptional/



So many dishes start with warmed olive oil in a skillet: You could be sautéing garlic and onions, frying an egg, searing chicken or fish or shrimp. You could be blooming spices, toasting nuts or making tortilla chips. In this way, olive oil is a great unifier: It’s a moment in cooking that connects so many things we want to do, and as a result, allows us to multitask. For instance, let’s take two of the most basic of foods: eggs and toast.

You know how to make toast. In a toaster, in the toaster oven, something like that. You might butter it before or after toasting. But the ideal toast resembles a giant crouton: golden outsides with a center that still gives. So, if you make your toast how you make your croutons, good things happen: By sizzling the toast in warm olive oil, the outside gets crispy-crackly while the middle softens and warms. Whereas butter risks burning at high heat, olive oil can stand it, and your (fried!) toast is better for it.

The same goes for eggs: Frying eggs in butter is your low-and-slow weekend route. Because butter will burn at a high temperature, you’ll coddle your egg over a lower temperature and end up with a soft, tender egg. In a medium-high pan of hot olive oil, an egg’s cook time is so fast that the white cooks without the yolk having a chance to cook through. It stays warm and runny, which is ideal for mopping up with your toast-size crouton.

You could salt and pepper your olive oil-fried egg and toast, learn — again — how useful olive oil is, and be happy with breakfast. But that olive oil in your skillet can work harder yet. Olive oil is not just a cooking medium that happens to have a silky feel and fruity flavor. It also can carry flavor. When whole or ground spices — or other aromatics, such as garlic and onions — settle into warm oil, they bloom.

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[Backseat Driver]

1. Oh, Celerity, the photos of the ingredients alone are so beautiful and

egg-in-a-hole one of my favorites! Is it cross-posted to the Cooking & Baking group?

[Celerity]

3. cross-posted. and the ingredients pics were added by me, I very often enhance my Lounge posts with

added pics from other sites

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1157117191

[WheelWalker]

2. Learned to call them "Gas House Eggs" growing up.

Highly favored!

[UTUSN]

4. A remnant hippie from the'70s did the egg/hole thing, not the rest parts.