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Oeufs Au Plat

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Editor's note: Serve these fried eggs with Chef John Besh's Green Onion Sausage and Shrimp Gravy .

A simple dish like fried eggs can be so good, and because it's so simple it's important to start with the best eggs, butter, and salt you can find. Pay attention to the cooking process and you'll have the most memorable eggs ever.

Ingredients

Makes 1 or 2

2 teaspoons softened butter
2 eggs
2 pinches salt

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    1. Rub a room-temperature 9-inch skillet with the butter. Place the skillet on the burner without turning it on. Crack the eggs into the skillet on opposite sides of the pan from each other.

    Step 2

    2. Turn the heat on to medium-low and cook the eggs until the whites have coagulated and turned opaque. Season the eggs with salt and serve with Green Onion Sausage and Shrimp Gravy , if you like.

Reprinted with permission from My New Orleans: The Cookbook, by John Besh., © September 2009 Andrews McMeel Publishing
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  • I have been frying eggs this way for 50 years, PERFECT.

    • Anonymous

    • Victoria BC.

    • 2/27/2012

  • There might be four forks because the staff of epi found the recipe to be deemed as such. Chances are they wouldn't have added this recipe to the index if they didn't feel it worthy of some attention. I wanna try it, just to see what it does. Who knows, may have found a near perfect egg.

    • treys850

    • sunshine state

    • 9/4/2010

  • why does this have 4 forks when no one has rated it. I haven't made it - too weird of a way to make....duh, fried eggs. There should not be any forks assigned to this until it is actually rated people who have tried the recipe. Personally, I wouldn't bother and don't know why it's even listed. Although the Frend Oefs Au Plat ("eggs on a plate") makes it sound interesting - it really isn't!

    • esiegler

    • 6/26/2010

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