A perfect breakfast dish that you can enjoy any time of the day. It’s the classic sausage-and-egg dish cooked with a twist. The sausages are sliced and browned in a skillet, onions, tomatoes and fresh basil are added, meat and veggies are pushed to create craters, eggs are cracked into the craters and cooking continues just until the eggs are set. Genius, really. And the original idea isn’t mine.
Inspired by a recipe from Sporkme, I cooked this dish for a fast dinner last night. I had been planning on serving it for breakfast but I’m rarely awake early enough to eat, much less prepare, breakfast. So, why not for dinner?
Recipe: Skillet sausage and eggs
Ingredients
- about 200 g. of spicy sausage or sausages (I used Hungarian), semi frozen
- 1 tbsp. of olive oil
- 1 onion, roughly chopped
- 3 to 4 tomatoes, roughly chopped
- a handful of fresh basil leaves
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 3 to 4 eggs
- chopped parsley, to garnish
Instructions
- Peel of the casing of the sausage(s) and discard. Cut the semi-frozen sausage meat into one-inch rings.
- Set the stove to high. Heat the olive oil in a skillet (a.k.a. frying pan).
- Add the sausage rings, cut side down, in a single layer. Cook without disturbing until the undersides are lightly browned. Flip to brown the other side. The sausage rings won’t crumble once they’re seared and browned.
- Add the onion and tomatoes. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables soften a bit.
- Add the basil leaves. Stir.
- Push the meat and vegetables around to create three to four craters, depending on how many eggs you want to use.
- Crack an egg into each crater. Lower the heat to medium-low, cover and cook until the eggs are set. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve the sausages and eggs in the skillet.
Preparation time: 5 minute(s)
Cooking time: 10 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 2 to 4
I love how the freshly-cracked eggs look. They’re so round and sunny-yellow! I got cheered up by it, for some reason. Lol.
Eggs, in any form, cheer me up every time.
This looks do-able
Anyhoo, I just noticed on the 4th photo that there’s a tomato underneath the pan hehe I just remembered how funny it is when I drop food (or soup etc) on our gas range then get into all the trouble of cleaning it up afterwards.
Oh, that happens occasionally. hahaha And the really weird thing? It’s when I’m extra careful not to make a mess that it happens. Life just isn’t fair hehehehe
Does it mean that the recipe is best for 3 persons since there are only 3 eggs? or it is good for sharing already. thanks
Speedy and I shared the third egg. I would have used two eggs only but they’d look kinda weird in a round pan.
I imagine what 2 eggs would look like in the pan, Connie– parang eyes? You need to place a carrot or something to be the nose and then an orange wedge to be the smiling mouth???
haha!
Creepy, di ba, with just two eggs? hehehe
Very creepy, indeed…
sarap, will cook this tomorrow morning….thanks Connie…..
Definitely good enough for dinner. And 3 eggs are just fine for us. Kahit apat kami. The 4th person doesn’t like egg cooked this way. Pero tamang tama yan kay Antonio. Tawag nya dyan ‘tapon-egg’ hehehe
I love eggs, any way it’s cooked. This is one dish with eggs that I’d like to try sometime.
Did this this morning. Yummy! Did it with 2 eggs. Well, i made the craters a little elongated so it wouldnt look wierd! He he he!
Thank you again for the recipes!