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Spicy Tomato Skillet Eggs with Prosciutto

by Chrissy Teigen from Cravings: Recipes For All the Food You Want to Eat

Easy

Serves 3 - 6

This easy recipe for eggs poached in tomato sauce packs a flavour punch, thanks to the addition of parmesan and prosciutto. It’s a perfect Italian-themed brunch dish.

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Introduction

I am the busiest lazy person on the planet. I don’t even know how it’s possible to be both, but oh, I manage. I also regret every plan I’ve ever made. Did I invite you over for brunch? I’m dreading it. But luckily, I ALWAYS have the ingredients for this divine, painfully simple crowdpleaser.

Sopping up the eggy tomato sauce with focaccia almost makes me not regret inviting someone into my home/getting out of€ bed. (Oh, and by the way, if I’m calling you, be a doll and please don’t. Ever. Answer. Send me to voicemail. It is the greatest gift.)

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Ingredients

1lPerfect Tomato Sauce (see ingredients and method below)
1 tspred pepper flakes, or more to taste
6eggs
Flaked salt
8thin slices of prosciutto
2 tbspextra virgin olive oil
1 tbspchopped fresh oregano
Buttered toast, for dipping
For the Perfect Tomato Sauce (makes 1.5l):
120mlextra virgin olive oil
2medium onions, diced
4cloves of garlic, finely minced
1.5kgjuicy, ripe Roma (plum) tomatoes, diced, or 1 large can chopped tomatoes plus 1 large can crushed tomatoes
2 tbspchopped fresh oregano
2 tbspchopped fresh thyme
1 tbspchopped fresh rosemary
1 tspflaked salt
½ tspfreshly ground black pepper

Method

First make the Perfect Tomato Sauce.

In a 4-litre saucepan, heat the oil over a medium heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring, until translucent and beginning to turn golden, about 13 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, 1 minute longer. Add the tomatoes, oregano, thyme, rosemary, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook until the sauce thickens slightly, 25 to 30 minutes for fresh tomatoes, 20 to 25 minutes for canned.

The sauce is now ready to use. Time for the rest of the dish.

In a heavy 12-inch frying pan, combine the tomato sauce and red pepper flakes and cook over medium-high heat until the sauce is bubbling. Form 6 wells in the sauce and crack an egg into each well. Reduce the heat to medium, season the eggs with salt, and cook until the whites are set but the yolks are runny, 8 to 9 minutes.

Midway through the cooking, tear the prosciutto and form it into little bundles, then tuck them into the sauce all around the pan.

Drizzle everything with the olive oil, garnish with the oregano, and serve with toast.

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