Peppers And Eggs For A Palo Alto Morning

1 ingredients
9 steps

Ingredients

  • ["4 large eggs", "1 large tomato", "1/4 green pepper", "1/4 red pepper", "1/4 yellow pepper", "1/2 Spanish onion", "3 sprigs parsley", "3 sprigs mint leaves", "1 lemon, juicy", "1 teaspoon olive oil, preferably organic extra-virgin", "2 tablespoons sea salt or kosher salt", "1 pinch freshly ground black pepper, on the \"fine\"" setting""]"

Directions

  1. 1
    Place the parsley and the mint leaves in cold filtered water, salted with the sea salt or kosher salt for a half hour, and follow by rinsing in cold filtered water.
  2. 2
    Dice the tomato,onion, green, red, and yellow peppers and place in a bowl. Add a pinch of black pepper and mix thoroughly.
  3. 3
    Crack open the eggs, eliminate any with brown or red spots,and beat them with a fork until there is uniform consistency.
  4. 4
    Chop the parsley and mint leaves.
  5. 5
    Squeeze the lemon, running the liquid through a sieve to eliminate any seeds. Drench the parsley and mint leaves with the lemon juice
  6. 6
    Heat the olive oil in a 12' diameter stainless steel flat pan, and when it spreads evenly in the pan, pour the egg mixture in and spread it.
  7. 7
    After a couple of minutes, test the egg patty for firmness and when it doesn't yield with a fork, add the tomato-onion-pepper mixture.
  8. 8
    Top it with the chopped parsley and mint leaves, which are now lemon-infused.
  9. 9
    Carefully fold it over and heat it for a minute or two, cut it in half, then serve.

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