Green Eggs & Ham
By Today's Parent
Makes
4 Adult Sized Servings
* PLUS Cooking time: 15 minutes
Recipe by Eshun Mott, Photo by Andrew Grinton
Aside from the Dr. Seuss reference, bacon is the secret to getting your kids to try this dish.
Ingredients
-
142 g
baby
spinach
-
4
large
eggs
-
salt
, to taste
-
black pepper
, to taste
-
2 tsp
butter
, plus 1 tbsp for cooking
-
2
slices
bacon
-
1/4 cup
fresh
bread crumb
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Melt 1 tbsp butter in a large frying pan on medium-high heat. Add 142 g baby spinach and cook, stirring for 1 to 2 min or until wilted. Remove spinach to a cutting board and coarsely chop.
- Divide spinach between 4 buttered ¾-cup ramekins and make a well in the centre. Crack one large egg into each ramekin, season with salt and pepper and top each egg with about ¼ tsp butter.
- Place filled ramekins into a baking dish, and pour in hot tap water until ramekins are ¾ submerged. Carefully transfer to the oven and bake for 12 to 15 min or until eggs are done to individual preference.
- While eggs are cooking, coarsely chop 2 slices of bacon, and sauté in a frying pan for 3 min. Add ¼ cup fresh bread crumbs to pan and cook for 2 min or until bacon and crumbs are crisp. Reserve.
- Remove ramekins with cooked eggs from baking dish. Sprinkle tops with bacon mixture and serve.
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 181,
- Protein
- 8 g,
- Carbohydrates
- 3 g,
- Fat
- 15 g,
- Fibre
- 1 g,
- Sodium
- 206 mg.
Tip:
Ramekins will be hot when they’ve just come out of the oven. Wrap a clean tea towel around the outside to give kids
something they can safely hold.