Baked Eggs

Name: Baked Eggs
Ingredients: About 1 cup grated zucchini; Salt; 2 teaspoons butter; About 3 small mushrooms, finely chopped; 1 scallion, finely chopped; 3 or 4 teaspoons heavy cream; 1 or 2 large eggs; Freshly ground pepper; Gratings of Parmesan (optional)

9 ingredients

6 steps

Ingredients

About 1 cup grated zucchini
Salt
2 teaspoons butter
About 3 small mushrooms, finely chopped
1 scallion, finely chopped
3 or 4 teaspoons heavy cream
1 or 2 large eggs
Freshly ground pepper
Gratings of Parmesan (optional)

Directions

1

Put the zucchini in a strainer, work 1/2 teaspoon salt into it, then set it over a bowl to drain.
2

Look in your fridge and you may find you have some leftover leafy vegetables, such as spinach or Swiss chard, or some broccoli or its more elegant cousin broccolini, or a winter root vegetable you could mash upany of these would make a fine bed for our baked egg and could be put directly into the gratin dish and heated quickly in the microwave.
3

Speaking of the microwavean instrument of cooking I seldom useone day I had a yen for a baked egg over some leftover ratatouille.
4

After heating up the vegetables in the microwave, I thought Id try dropping the egg on top and microwaving for just 1 minute instead of baking.
5

And it was miraculously good.
6

That dish took less than 5 minutes to put on the table.