Œufs à l'Espagnole (Eggs with Grilled Tomatoes and Fried Onions)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- eggs
- tomatoes
- onions
- flour
- oil
- ordinary scrambled-egg mixture
- 3 half tomatoes
- chopped red pepper
Instructions
- On the dish: grill and season well as many half tomatoes as there are eggs.
- Fry the eggs in the pan and cut them out with a plain round cutter.
- Set each egg on a half tomato and arrange them in a crown on a round dish.
- Season and flour finely sliced onions, fry them in oil, and heap them in the middle.
- Scrambled: empty, season and cook 3 half tomatoes in oil.
- Fill them with the ordinary scrambled-egg mixture.
- Set a large ring of fried onion on each and scatter a pinch of chopped red pepper over the eggs.