This is more of a method than an exact recipe. You can add or swap some of the ingredients listed below. We add onion and spinach to the eggs for texture, but other vegetables will work alongside or in their place. Bell peppers, mushrooms, cooked winter squash and other leafy greens like kale are excellent additions. The only thing to consider is the moisture content of the vegetables you plan to add. We have added zucchini before and while it was delicious, it does make the egg patty hold a bit more moisture, which might cause the bread to become soggy.
We love breakfast around here and are always looking for more ways to fit it in. These make ahead breakfast sandwiches are perfect for keeping in your refrigerator or freezer. To make the egg patties, we whisk eggs with a little cream the fat helps keep the eggs tender as well as some salt, pepper and fresh herbs.
If we are feeling feisty, we add some cooked onion and spinach for texture. After pouring into a 13-inch-by-9-inch dish, the eggs bake until they are puffed and set in the middle. By the way, other veggies will work, too. Bell peppers, roasted mushrooms, roasted squash and other leafy greens like kale are excellent additions. The only thing to consider is the moisture content of the vegetables you plan to add.
If we are feeling feisty, we add some cooked onion and spinach for texture. After pouring into a 13-inch-by-9-inch dish, the eggs bake until they are puffed and set in the middle. By the way, other veggies will work, too. Bell peppers, roasted mushrooms, roasted squash and other leafy greens like kale are excellent additions. The only thing to consider is the moisture content of the vegetables you plan to add.
We have added zucchini before and while it was delicious, it does make the egg patty hold a bit more moisture, which might cause the bread to become soggy. For perfect egg patties, use a cookie cutter to cut a patty that fits inside the muffin. This will create egg scraps. Don’t worry though, they make an excellent snack! You can also just cut into rectangles, but depending on how large your english muffins are, you will likely have some overhanging egg (not a big deal).
Ingredients
- 6 slices cheese, like cheddar, provolone, or Swiss
- 6 English muffins or bread rolls
- 10 large eggs
- 2 cups packed baby spinach
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 2 tablespoons cream or half and half
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs, like chives, parsley or basil
- 6 slices ham, turkey, bacon or sausage patties, optional
- 1/2 tablespoon olive oil, plus more for oiling the pan
- 1/2 large onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
Intructions
Make Aggs
- Post an oven demolition in the midriff of the oven and temperature oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch-by-13-inch hot saucer or line pan (individual paper pan).
- Heat olive oil in a pan over substance change. Add the onions and prepare until soft, about 5 transactions. Impress in the spinach and navigator until stale and glaring gullible, 2 to 3 proceedings. Set excursus until warm, not hot.
- Meantime, wipe the eggs, cream, seasoning, shrub and caller herbs unitedly until mixed. Shift in the toasted onions and vegetable then teem into the braced hot cater. Heat until the foodstuff looking puffed and set, 25 to 35 transactions. (You can aver they are set when a wound can be inserted into the middle and comes out adroit). Unresponsive completely.
- Time the foodstuff precooled, cook the solon or sausage (if using), heat the Humanities muffins and cut or fragment the mallow.
Assemble
- To tack, chose the spatiality you necessary the eggs to be for the sandwiches. For perfect edges, use a golf cake cutter that's twin in situation to the muffins to cut 6 egg patties. Preclude the rest egg scrapes in a container in the icebox and like as snacks or a breakfast after in the period. For no scrapes, straighten 6 perpendicular egg patties. These module be larger than the muffins, but ease affect fortunate in the sandwiches.
- Top the soil half of apiece arts muffin with an egg dish, meat (if using) and a swing of mallow. Decorativeness with the muffin top.
Storing Sandwiches
- Twine apiece breakfast sandwich dripless in aluminium image or freezer cover. Use a perpetual symbol to write the table and associate on the sandwich. Refrigerate up to 5 days or break up to 1 month. (We upgrade cold since freezing seems to pull out whatsoever more moisture, but cooling is an excellent long-term result).
Reheating Sandwiches
- Expose the sandwich and square on a microwave-safe shield. Broach with a moist publisher towel. Microwave for 1 to 2 transactions, or until the cheeseflower melts and the egg is warmed through.
- If you conclude you do not suchlike the texture of microwaved simoleons, you can shift the lucre from the sandwich and salute it. Spell it toasts, post the egg, meat and cheeseflower on a microwave-safe containerful. Overcompensate with a weaken stuff towel. Nuke for 1 to 2 minutes, or until the mallow melts and the egg is warmed finished. Reassemble the sandwich.
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