I love eggs for breakfast but I am far too lazy during the week to make myself anything other than a bagel or oatmeal. On the weekends are when J and I go the extra mile and make each other the best breakfasts. Sometimes he makes waffles or pancakes. I often make poached eggs but I feel like I am running out of ideas. When I saw this recipe for baked eggs I immediate jumped on it. Everything about it I love. Eggs, tomatoes, basil and cheese. Seems to me that this could be perfect and I looked forward to dipping my toast into this little ramekin of eggs.

The recipe is pretty easy as well. Prep all the ingredients throw into a ramekin and bake!

Ingredients

  • Eggs
  • Chopped basil
  • Sliced cherry or grape tomatoes
  • Milk
  • mozza
  • Salt and pepper

 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat a small ramekin with cooking spray.

Place a couple of tomatoes, some mozzarella cheese, and basil into the ramekin. Crack an egg into the ramekin, being careful not to break the yolk. Add the milk, a few more tomatoes, a little more mozzarella, and basil to the top. Season with sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste.

Cook for 5 minutes and then on broiler setting for 5 minutes.

 

 

I don’t know if my imagination got the best of me and set the bar really high for this recipe but I wasn’t overly impressed. I feel like the eggs should have been put in a bain marie because it was not cooking properly as per instructions. I would try cooking at 350 for 20-30 min instead of 5 and broiling. I ended up standing around the oven making sure the outsides wouldn’t burn but the insides would cook and for all that pacing and peaking, it wasn’t really worth it. I would have preferred to just poach the egg. Don’t let my review stop you from trying this. I am a very grumpy/impatient person in the morning so perhaps it’s just me. Let me know how yours turns out.