Breakfast and Brunch Recipes
Eggs in Potato Hollows
Ingredients
- 4 cups cold mashed potatoes
- 1/2 cup crumbled, crisp bacon or diced ham
- 1/4 cup minced onion
- 8 eggs
- 1/4 cup chopped, fresh herbs (tarragon, dill, parsley)
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Bacon fat or butter
- 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1 cups shredded cheese (or Cheddar or jack)
Instructions
- Combine mashed potatoes, bacon, onion, herbs and pepper, stirring until well mixed.
- Grease a shallow baking pan with bacon fat or butter, sprinkle with bread crumbs. Spoon 8 mounds of potato mixture into pan. With back of spoon, make deep depressions, large enough to contain eggs in the potatoes.
- Bake at 450 degrees F for 10 minutes or until potatoes are hot.
- Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
- Break 1 egg into each potato hollow. Bake for 20 minutes or until eggs are set. Sprinkle with cheese.
- Return to oven until cheese melts and eggs are done.