American Breakfast Plate
Bacon, 2 eggs, buttered toast and hash browns.
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Cooking bacon from a COLD pan is how you avoid burnt edges and raw middles. Bacon needs time to render its own fat slowly. Start cold, medium heat, walk away briefly.
Ingredients
Everything below makes 2 servings.
- 6 slicesthick-cut bacon
- 4large eggs
- 1 largerusset potatoscrubbed
- 4 slicessourdough or white bread
- 3 tbspunsalted buttersoftened
- 1 tbspolive oil
- 1 tspkosher salt
- ½ tspblack pepper
In the app these rescale to however many people you're feeding.
Nutrition
Per serving, as written.
- 1009calories
- 35gprotein
- 71gcarbs
- 65gfat
Swaps move these numbers. A different protein or base changes them.
Instructions
Knife work first, then the stove. Nothing below asks you to chop while something burns.
- Grate the russet potato on the large holes of a box grater. Squeeze out all liquid in a clean kitchen towel - wring it dry.
- Soften butter for the toast.
Cook bacon (start cold)
Lay bacon strips in COLD large skillet, no oil. Turn heat to medium. As fat renders, the bacon will start sizzling. Cook 8-10 min, turning once or twice, until deeply crisp. Transfer to paper towel. Pour off all but 1 tbsp bacon fat into a jar.
9 min · hands onHash browns in bacon fat
Add grated potato to the bacon-fat skillet, spread to a thin even layer, season with salt and pepper. Press flat with spatula. Cook UNDISTURBED 5 min until bottom is deeply golden. Flip in sections, cook 4-5 min more.
10 min · hands onToast and butter
Toast bread until golden. Butter generously while hot.
3 min · hands onFry eggs
Heat olive oil in nonstick over medium. Crack in eggs. Cook 3 min for crispy edges and runny yolks. Season with salt and pepper.
3 min · hands onPlate
On each plate: 3 strips bacon, eggs, half the hash browns, 2 slices buttered toast. Serve hot immediately.
1 min · hands onMake it yours
Every swap here is one Maui already knows how to make, including what it does to the timing.
Cook turkey bacon 3 min/side instead of 4 - leaner, dries faster.
Brown 4 sausage links 6 min total, turning.
Halve some berries / slice an orange for the plate. Adds about 2 minutes.
What keeps
This plate is a fresh-only assembly. Eggs go rubbery, bacon goes flabby, toast goes hard.
Make it; eat it. Hash browns can be parcooked and finished day-of.
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