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Baked egg delight

Baked Egg Delight

 Baked Egg Delight , this colorful and delicious dish is so simple to make that its unbelievable and the best thing is that you can play around with the ingredients and alter and substitute a few and  get a different and amazing flavor each time.

Ingredients for Baked egg delight:

1. Three to four slices of a little stale bread
2. two tablespoons crushed garlic
3. 5 tablespoons olive oil and more to drizzle later
4. half cup each of sliced mushrooms and  chopped capsicum
5. a few sliced mushrooms to decorate on top
6. one medium tomato chopped fine
7. half a teaspoon black pepper
8. half a teaspoon oregano ( dried)
9. about half a cup or more of grated cheddar cheese
10. three large eggs
11. a little extra olive oil for drizzling on top

Baked Egg Delight

You could use butter in lieu of olive oil , any other bread in place of the white loaf , red and yellow bell pepper in place of the regular green capsicum , cherry tomatoes in place of the regular tomatoes , you could add a dash of tobasco , you could replace oregano with fresh coriander or parsley , add garlic salt and red pepper flakes in place of black pepper….I mean just do any thing that suits your taste or your style. You could add chicken shreds and sausages , use mozzarella or parmesan....just keep trying a lot of variations and get a different tatse every time.

Baked Egg Delight

• Lets begin by placing three slices of a day old bread kept in the refrigerator overnight in the well greased flat baking dish. The whole idea is to have a little dry bread so that it will soak in a lot of the egg and still be a little firm so that the slices cut well. Read on you will soon understand what I mean.

•  Crush some garlic with a mortar and pestle , use as much as you like, I have used about two tablespoons of crushed garlic.

•  Take about five tablespoons of olive oil in a pan and add the garlic to it. Keep the gas flame at medium.

•  Stir for about a minute to get rid of the raw smell of the garlic and then add half a cup each of chopped mushrooms and capsicum , one small tomato chopped fine. Stir fry for another minute and then add half a teaspoon of black pepper and oregano each.

• Pour half of this mixture over the slices and make sure that the bread slices get drenched with the olive oil.

•   Put some grated cheddar on top .

• Place another three slices on this layer and again follow up by the rest of the vegetables and the cheddar. Drizzle some more  olive oil if you feel that the bread is looking dry.

• Place some more mushrooms cut lenthways .

• Beat three eggs with half a teaspoon of salt and slowly pour the eggs over the arranged slices. Be careful lest the egg might spill off.

• Preheat the oven to 180° and bake for 28 to 30 minutes.

Baked Egg Delight

 Tastes best when it is served immediately. I recommend having "baked egg delight " for breakfast , but I guess i would be a good choice as a comfort food for dinner too.

Baked egg delight