Recipe: Texas Style Toad in the Hole Fried Egg & Toast
This is one of the most fun recipes to teach children as they learn to cook for themselves and to serve their family at meals. The name is from the English dish, but the American version could not be more different. This simple breakfast favorite includes a fried egg cooked into the middle of a piece of toast and garnished with fruit. The Boy Scouts introduced our family to this dish as they needed a quick way to make a delicious hearty breakfast over a campfire. We’ve upgraded this to cooking on the stove, so enjoy a much quicker but still easy delicious protein-rich breakfast that is sure to please every Texan and egg-lover alike!
Prep time: 5 mins.
Cook time: 10 mins.
Total time: 15 mins.
Makes 1 serving
Substitutions: Use any kind of sandwich bread. Substitute any fruit as preferred; however, berries are excellent to eat in the morning as they add water to your organs.
Note: If you freeze your bread like we do, make sure it’s thawed before cooking
Special Tools: Texas shaped cookie cutter
Ingredients:
One slice of toast
Large egg
Salt and Pepper, to taste
Butter
2 - 3 fresh strawberries
Handful of fresh blueberries
Directions:
- Rinse and pat dry fresh strawberries and blueberries. Remove hull and slice the strawberries on a cutting board in half lengthwise to get beautiful cross-section slices. Set fruit aside.
- Using a Texas cookie cutter, cut the shape of Texas out of the center of bread by placing the bread on a cutting board and firmly pressing down and wiggling the cutter.
- Very gently lift out the state of Texas and place to the side.
- Heat a 10” sauté pan on medium high heat. Once hot, add a pat of butter (1 T) to the pan, swirling it and covering the bottom with the butter.
- Add the main body of the bread into the pan and allow it to cook in the butter about 1 minute. Turn up the heat slightly. Crack an egg and drop into the center of the toast. It should bubble and pop with the heat and butter.
- Once the egg is fried on one side (about 2-3 minutes), flip gently, adding a bit more (1/2 T - 1 T) butter to the pan before flipping so the other side will cook evenly.
- Once cooked, remove fried egg and toast from pan and plate it. Take the state of Texas cutout and add to the hot pan, cooking it in the butter on both sides until toasted brown.
- Lay the state of Texas cutout on top of the fried egg dish and garnish with the fruit.
- Enjoy!