What to make with eggs and cheese
Eggs and cheese is the original 5-minute dinner. Done right, an omelet, a grilled cheese with egg, or a cheesy scramble is the kind of food that ruins restaurant breakfast for you. Built by a working chef.
Four ways to cook eggs and cheese tonight
- French omelet with gruyère. Beat eggs hard, pour into hot buttered pan, scramble briefly then let set, fill with gruyère, fold and serve.
- Cheesy scrambled eggs on toast. Low-and-slow scramble eggs with butter, fold in cream cheese and chives off the heat, pile on toast.
- Eggs in a basket with cheddar. Cut a hole in toast, crack egg into the hole, fry, flip, top with cheddar until melted.
- Cacio e uova. Toss hot pasta with eggs, pecorino, parm, and pepper — a faster, simpler cousin to carbonara.
The one thing chefs do that home cooks skip
for scrambled eggs, pull them off the heat when they're still slightly wet. Residual heat finishes them — overcook by 30 seconds and they go to dust.
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