Egg in a Potato

I wanted to make something nice (and different) to use as sandwich filling for my breakfast. So I came up with this idea of cooking eggs with potatoes. But then I thought why not make it multipurpose. So here we go. Cooking an egg inside a potato.

I stated with two large potatoes. After washing, I cut them along the longer side as shown below.

 I then burrowed and removed the inside of  potatoes with a spoon.

Broke an egg and poured into each potato shell.

Added some salt and chilli powder. Tried to mix them with eggs. At this stage, the realization dawned on me that it probably would have been better if I had whisked the eggs with salt and chilli powder outside and then poured it into the potato shell. You can probably also add some vinegar or lime juice. Will try it next time.  

I then put back the potato cap that was cut off at the beginning and secured with some tooth picks. 

More security with some tightly would thread. Didn't do this very well though. 

Boiled in water for 30 minutes.

As you can see, during boiling, some egg did seep out. But not as much as I had feared.

While the potato/egg was boiling, caramelized some finely chopped onions and kept aside.

After 30 minutes, the potatoes were taken out and allowed to cool.

Then, the skin was peeled off. 

And the potatoes were sliced. You can serve this as such after garnishing with the caramelized onion, some lime juice, salt and pepper if required.

What I did was, I chopped the slices finely, added some salt and pepper and the caramelized onion. And used it as filling for my breakfast sandwiches.

Try it and let me know if you liked it.

Omelette.....rolled over

Like most other recipes recorded here, I have learnt this too from my explorations around YouTube. Actually, none of the recipes here are my own. They are all obtained from YouTube videos. This recipe has been variously described there as Japanese omelette or Korean omelette. 

Materials:

I made the omelette with 5 eggs. The eggs were whisked in a measuring cup. 

The eggs were passed through a sieve. Salt and pepper were added to taste and mixed.

Then, finely chopped tomatoes, onions, carrots, green chillies/jalapenos were mixed with whisked eggs. A pan was placed on stove at medium setting and warmed up. (note here that the traditional recipes use a square pan with high edges. I didn't have one. So, went ahead with a normal pan) Oil was spread on the pan. 

Omelette mix was poured in the pan and spread. Make sure to not pour too much of the mix. The omelette should be thin.

Once the omelette is set, i.e you can move it, roll the omelette over. Press after each roll. Leave out a little bit of the omelette from rolling and let it extend out. Move the rolled over omelette to one side of the pan. It is at this step you realize why it is good to have a square pan. Spread oil on rest of the pan. 

Pour some of the egg mix on the pan. Make sure to pour over the extended part of the rolled over omelette.

Once this is set, roll the omelette over, move to a side of the pan and pour rest of the egg mix. I did it 3 times. You can do it as many times as you want. You will just have that many more layers in your omelette roll. 

Finally when all the omelette has been rolled over, press it from the sides to make it compact. Also try to turn the omelette roll to the sides, if you think necessary. Transfer the omelette roll to a cutting board and let it cool for a little bit for it to set. Cut the omelette to small rolls and serve. 

Try it out and let me know how it turned out.

Toast with an egg inside

Recently I have decided to stop eating meat and limit my animal derived food intake to milk and eggs. My milk consumption is restricted to the many cups of coffee I consume in a day. To make eating eggs more interesting, I have of late been hunting for interesting recipes. I will share some of them here in the coming weeks; hopefully one every week. This week I am going to share something very easy to make for breakfast, a toast with an egg at the center. Most of the recipes that I write about here were originally acquired from watching videos in YouTube and modified to suit my taste.

Start by cutting out a hole, in any shape you want, at the center of a bread slice. You can use any bread you want; I like to eat whole wheat bread. Also it is better to use something with sharp edges to make the hole.

I then spread some oil in a pan and warmed it up.

Placed the bread on the pan and toasted it a little bit and turned it over.

Broke an egg in half and poured at the center of the hole in the toast.

Added some salt

and some powdered black pepper (use chilli powder/red pepper powder/masala if you prefer)

what ever you add be careful not to add too much, like I did here.

If you prefer you can mix and spread the yellow evenly or cook it as such. I did it both ways and was fine with the taste either way. 

Once the egg is nearly cooked turn the toast over 

Then cook for a little more; till you find that it is done on the other side too. Take off the pan and its ready to serve.

I toasted the cut-out centers also. If you want you can dip these circles in egg and make tiny french toasts. 

Try it and let me know in the comments what you think of it. 

Happy cooking.