Cakes & Bakes: Cloud eggs

Cloud egg in a small skillet | H is for Home

In last week’s soft sourdough sandwich loaf recipe, you were introduced to one of Justin’s favourite brunch dishes – a bacon sandwich. This week, it’s mine – a veggie full English breakfast.

Separated egg with whisked egg white | H is for Home

I like it with veggie black pudding, hash browns, mushrooms, baked beans, fried bread… and cloud eggs.

Veggie full English breakfast | H is for Home

It’s lovely on a lazy Sunday. If you don’t want to go to the effort of a full English, or your just not that hungry, cloud eggs are lovely atop a slice of toast with no more than a sprinkling of salt and a grind of black pepper. A very simple recipe for our Cakes & Bakes series… but well worth sharing, all the same!

Cloud eggs
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
5 min
Total Time
15 min
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
5 min
Total Time
15 min
Ingredients
  1. Eggs (one per person)
  2. pinch of saltCloud eggs ingredients
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Instructions
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 175ºC/350ºF/Gas mark 4. Grease a small skillet or frying pan (make sure it doesn't have a wooden or plastic handle as it will be going into the oven)
  2. Separate the white from the yolk. Set the yolk aside and put the egg white and salt into a clean, high-sided mixing bowl (make sure the bowl is grease free as it will affect the volume), whisk the egg whites to the stiff peak stage
  3. Use a spatula to carefully tip the egg white into the skillet - you don't want to lose the volume. Make a small hollow in the middle of the whites before putting the pan into the oven
  4. Bake for 3-5 minutes, remove from the oven and carefully tip the yolk into the pre-made hollow
  5. Put the pan back into the oven and bake for a further couple of minutes - the lenght of time depends on how runny you like your yolk
  6. Remove from the oven and plate it up
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