Œufs à l'Américaine (Eggs American Style)

Ingredients

• On the dish:
• eggs
• 4 thin escalopes of lobster tail prepared à l'Américaine
• sauce Américaine
• Fried:
• 2 eggs
• 2 slices of Bacon
• 1 tomato

Instructions

1. On the dish: line the dish with 4 thin escalopes of lobster tail prepared à l'Américaine.
2. Break the eggs over them and cook.
3. Surround with a ribbon of sauce Américaine.
4. Fried: cook 2 eggs in the pan — Escoffier's 'fried egg' here means the egg cooked in the pan.
5. Slide them onto a hot plate.
6. Set 2 slices of grilled Bacon on one side of them and a grilled tomato on the other.