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Fried Egg

Name: Fried Egg
Total time: 7 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 2 eggs; 1 tbsp olive oil; Salt to taste; Black pepper to taste

Eggs cracked into hot oil or butter in a pan and fried over medium heat, sometimes covered, until the white is set and the yolk still soft; also in a hole in a slice of bread.

⏱ 7 min

⚖ Pareve 🥬 Vegetarian 🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

1
Heat the olive oil in a pan over medium heat.
⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
2
Gently crack the eggs into the pan.
Stove
💡Crack the egg into hot but not smoking fat: in fat that's too hot, the white burns at the edges before it sets near the yolk.
3
Season with salt and black pepper and fry 3–4 minutes, until the whites are set and the yolks still soft.
Stove

66calories

3 gprotein

0 gcarbs

6 gfat

● protein 19%● carbs 1%● fat 79%

Per serving (28 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

Eggs: measured in pieces: one ≈ 50 g · 143 kcal per 100 g · More about Eggs →
Olive oil: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 14 g · 884 kcal per 100 g · More about Olive oil →
Salt: 1 tbsp = 18 g · 0 kcal per 100 g · More about Salt →
Black pepper: measured in pieces: one ≈ 0.5 g · 251 kcal per 100 g · More about Black pepper →

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)

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⚙️ What you can change

Possible additions: In a slice of bread · Sliced garlic · White cheese for serving · Tomatoes for serving · Mint · Butter too · Toasting the bread before the egg (minutes) (1–2) · Paprika on top · Toast for serving · Cheese melted on the egg · Flip and fry briefly (1 minute)
Swaps: olive oil or butter or Oil
Frying time (minutes): 3–4
Doneness cue: the whites are set and the yolks still soft
Frying vessel: in a pan
Heat level: medium

Fried Egg

👨‍🍳 Method

⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

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