American
Fried Egg and Toast
Fried Egg and Toast is American home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tbsp butter
- 4 slices sandwich bread
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Melt the butter in a nonstick skillet over medium heat.
- Crack in the eggs and fry until the whites are set and the yolks reach your liking, about 3 minutes.
- Meanwhile toast the bread until golden.
- Season the eggs with salt and pepper and serve alongside the toast.
Serve it with
A American breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Fried Egg and Toast, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Fried Egg and Toast carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Gluten | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Egg, Grains, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Fried Egg and Toast takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on egg, bread, and butter.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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