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The Ultimate Egg

Egg Recipes

From the perfectly poached to the extravagantly souffled. Every recipe starts with an egg.

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Classic French Omelette with Fine Herbs

The French omelette is a test of technique, not ingredients. Cooked entirely over moderate heat with constant agitation,…

Prep 5m Cook 2m 1 servings
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Diner-Style Scrambled Eggs

Not the low-and-slow British style. These are proper American diner eggs: cooked on a hot flat-top (or a well-heated ski…

Prep 2m Cook 2m 2 servings
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Eggs Benedict with Proper Hollandaise

The hollandaise is the whole point — a warm emulsion of butter and egg yolk, sharpened with lemon and a whisper of cayen…

Prep 15m Cook 15m 2 servings
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Vegetable Frittata with Goat Cheese

A frittata is an open-faced omelette finished under the broiler — which means it feeds a crowd without requiring you to …

Prep 10m Cook 20m 4 servings
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Soft-Boiled Eggs with Soldiers

The British nursery classic, and still one of the most satisfying ways to eat an egg. A 6-minute boil produces a white t…

Prep 2m Cook 6m 2 servings
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Breakfast Burrito with Chorizo and Scrambled Eggs

A proper breakfast burrito is structural engineering with a tortilla. The chorizo renders its red-orange fat into the sc…

Prep 10m Cook 10m 2 servings
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Shakshuka

Eggs poached directly in a spiced tomato sauce, served in the same skillet with crusty bread for mopping. This North Afr…

Prep 10m Cook 25m 4 servings
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Egg-in-a-Hole with Gruyère

Also called toad-in-the-hole, egg-in-a-basket, or whatever your family called it. The bread toasts in butter, the egg co…

Prep 3m Cook 5m 1 servings
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Migas with Crispy Tortilla Strips

A Tex-Mex breakfast standard built on fried corn tortilla strips scrambled into eggs with peppers, onions, and cheese. T…

Prep 10m Cook 10m 3 servings
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Cloud Eggs

Egg whites whipped to stiff peaks, shaped into nests on a baking sheet, baked until set, then finished with the yolks ne…

Prep 10m Cook 8m 2 servings