Half a year after switching from Dream Satellite TV to Cignal HD Satellite, and after half a year of Food Network, I now watch more Law & Order: SVU and NCIS reruns than Food Network. Food Network Asia incorporates shows from Cooking Channel but I wish we had Cooking Channel instead and never mind Food Network. If it weren’t for Alton Brown’s Good Eats, Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa and Giada de Laurentiis’ Giada at Home, I’d skip Food Network shows altogether (the Cooking Channel shows are so much better). I’m so quick to press the remote button whenever I see Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay. Any other show would do. Seriously. Even Power Puff Girls is more entertaining.
What I do enjoy with Food Network are the five-minute segments of The Best Thing I Ever Ate between shows. And it was from one of those segments featuring Tyler Florence that I picked up the idea for this dish. The classic bacon and egg combo given a new twist. Instead of fried egg sunny side up, it’s fried and breaded boiled egg — with the yolk still runny so that you get a burst of yellow puddle when you cut through the egg. And, instead of crisp bacon rashers, it’s a crispy chunk of bacon. I had to go all the way to Shopwise Libis for unsliced panchetta to make this. But the trip was totally worth it as it was truly a unique bacon and egg experience.
Recipe: Bacon and egg with pan-roasted onions and peppers
Ingredients
- 1 c. of pan-roasted onions and peppers (get the recipe)
- 2 chunks of slab bacon (doesn’t have to be panchetta but has to be unsliced)
- 2 eggs, boiled (firm whites, runny yolks) and shelled
- 1 egg white, beaten
- 1/3 c. of panko
- about 3 c. of cooking oil for frying
- bread, to serve
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 475F at least 10 minutes before you start anything. Due to the small amount of food to be cooked in the oven, so as not to waste gas, I used the turbo broiler which I still preheated.
- Broil the bacon in the very hot oven until crisp. Depending on the size of the bacon chunks, this can take anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes.
- While the bacon broils, prepare the rest of the components of the dish. Spoon the pan-roasted onions and peppers on two plates. Set aside.
- Heat the cooking oil in a small pan. Why small? So that the oil is least three inches deep.
- Roll the shelled boiled eggs in the beaten egg white then roll in panko. Fry over very high heat for about 15 seconds or just until the panko browns. You’re creating a crust but you don’t want the yolks to get cooked through. A lot of my panko fell off during frying so you might want to flour the eggs before rolling in egg whites. Might help keep the panko from falling off.
- Assemble your dish. Place the egg on top of the pan-roasted onions and pepper. Arrange the crisp bacon on the side. Serve with bread and relish the richness of this dish.
Preparation time: 10 minute(s)
Cooking time: 15 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 2
my goodness! this would be such a diet killer but i’m so drooling over this! a whole chunk of fried bacon…my words just left me.
The bacon was mind blowing awesome hehehe
>>you said:
>>I’m so quick to press the remote
>>button whenever I see Rachael Ray
>> and Bobby Flay
Rachel, she has that pushy, smart a** remarks during her cooking shows which I feel annoying and distracting. Bobby, well he’s a smart a** all together, he he.
Re Rachael Ray: Annoying is a mild way of putting it. Her cooking is sooooo sloppy.
Re Bobby Flay: does anyone really believe that the results of Throwdown aren’t already pre-determined?
Hi Miss Connie. Why do you think Rachael Ray’s cooking is sloppy?
Because I’ve watched her and she is.
Hi Miss Connie,
“Roll the shelled boiled eggs in the beaten egg white…” – why shelled? is the shell supposed to be eaten as well?
Shelled means shell has been removed. Unshelled is the term for “shell on”.
Just like the words “peeled” and “unpeeled” for vegetables, right?
Yep.
Hi Connie, how do I get the egg to be boiled firm on the outside but yet still have the eggs runny? I’m not very good at judging how fast food cook. =( I just overcooked my attempt at pork chops over the weekend and the meat turned out too tough.
Click the boiled eggs link above. It’s all there.
How did I miss that? Thanks Connie! =)
oooh… this really seems heavenly! i just need to get my cholesterol level down before i get to try this…
Hi, can i also deep fry the bacon?
Oh yes.