Recipe Story
I have developed about 30 different baked egg recipes. I'm not sure why but it's such a great concept to work with. Anyhow this is a play on a topping I use for risotto sometimes - it worked very good under baked eggs and hollandaise sauce...
:) Nikko
Ingredients
For the base 4 slices of smoked bacon - 1 cup quartered small brown mushrooms - 2 diced shallots - 4 eggs - 2 crumpets (or english muffens) For the hollandaise sauce 1 stick butter (use real butter) - 2 egg yokes - 3 tbl lemon juice - dash cayenne pepper
Directions
Start by prepping two ramekins - Basically rub them well with butter or spray them with some type of cooking spray. Put them in a water bath and set them aside. For the base - crisp up the bacon in a medium saute pan - add the mushrooms and shallots and cook over medium heat until the mushrooms are to your liking. Divide the mixture into the ramekins. Put two eggs in each ramekin and top with a spot of cream or milk. Bake in the oven at 400 for 10 - 15 minutes. While the eggs are baking - melt the stick of butter - whisk the egg yolks - temper the egg yolks with a spot of the butter then add back into the butter mixture and whisk until thickened. Add in the lemon juice and cayenne and throughly mix in. To present - Toast the crumpets - unmold the eggs onto the crumpets - cover with hollandaise and enjoy...
