Creamy Eggs With Tomatoes and Peppers, Basque-Style

This crockery could beryllium served for breakfast, brunch, luncheon oregon dinner. It's bully capable to deploy arsenic a staple successful summer, erstwhile peppers and tomatoes are plentiful.

You mightiness wonder: If it's fundamentally eggs, bacon and vegetables, wherefore does it instrumentality 40 minutes to prepare? Technique. Cooking the eggs slowly, with the rootlike base, yields the creaminess referred to successful the title. A fewer minutes of stirring implicit debased heat, arsenic opposed to the accustomed scrambling, elevates the ingredients.

And astir immoderate of those ingredients: The onion, tomatoes and doorbell peppers are cooked with olive oil; this is called a piperade. Pancetta is simply a cured, rolled bacon that is not smoked; it is disposable (sliced) astatine ample Giant stores and astatine Whole Foods Markets. Piment d'espelette is simply a sweet, coarsely crushed mentation of dried Basque reddish peppers, and it is disposable astatine La Cuisine successful Alexandria (703-836-4435) and done online purveyors.

Serve with multigrain toast.

Adapted from Sur La Table's "Eating Local," with Janet Fletcher (Andrews McMeel, 2010).

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

• Calories

  170

• Fat

  10 g

• Saturated Fat

  3 g

• Carbohydrates

  9 g

• Sodium

  190 mg

• Cholesterol

  295 mg

• Protein

  14 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Sur La Table's "Eating Local," with Janet Fletcher (Andrews McMeel, 2010).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.