How do you "dress" your fried eggs?

[ipsedixit]

Regardless of how you make your fried eggs (basted, over easy, hard, whatever), do you put anything on them?

Salt? Salt and pepper?

Some sort of dry seasoning?

Butter?

Ketchup?

Something else?

Nothing perhaps?

If I'm just having fried eggs alone, then I like a bit of soy sauce and some sea salt.

But if it's part of a breakfast plate with other stuff (e.g. pancakes, bacon, etc.) then it's just salt.

Never ketchup, even though I love the stuff on scrambled eggs.

[debbypo]

I love my fried medium eggs (cooked in evoo) on a bed of steamed baby kale (or spinach) and topped with sriraccha.

[scubadoo97]

I love topping greens with a fried egg. When we belonged to a CSA we had lots of different kales to work with. I really like to use beet greens as well as Lacinato Kale

[mariacarmen]

salt and pepper and/or:
sriracha
habanero sauce
aleppo

or lately, as part of the finishing-cooking, a drizzle of balsamic that blends with the browning butter (if i'm browning butter).

[kaleokahu]

Hi, ipse:

Every try Loco Moco? The totality is greater than the sum of its parts--rice, hamburger patty, brown gravy and fried egg on top.

Aloha,
Kaleo

[njmarshall55]

Salted butter and a dash of pepper in the fry pan. A modicum of Rooster Sauce on the plate.

[SherlockNoms]

I like my fried eggs blackened: Salt, pepper, cayenne, garlic, and paprika. Sometimes with a squeeze of lemon juice, and maybe some lebneh.

[laliz]

over medium with coarse salt and freshly ground pepper cooked in oil and or butter. If over hash browns, then I need ketchup on the side.

however, new to me is over sauteed broccoli and cauliflower mix, and no ketchup required.

[junglekitte]

salt always and sometimes either sumac and/or zaatar.
or
roasted cumin powder.

[SherlockNoms]

Ooh, yes! Zaatar on eggs is delicious!

[lynnlato]

One of my most favorite things in the world is a fried egg (actually any kind of egg).

After reading April Bloomfield's cookbook, "A Girl & Her Pig", I started dressing my eggs w/ Maldon salt, cracked pepper AND coarsely ground piquin peppers or red pepper flakes. They are heavenly.

I also like them over a single pancake or piece of french toast that has been buttered and lightly syrupped... with the salt & pepper & red pepper flakes too. ;)

[scubadoo97]

That sounds really good

[Erika L]

If the egg(s) is/are over a salad or, say, roasted asparagus, I top the whole lot with bread crumbs fried in olive oil with either some dijon or a minced anchovy (or a squirt of anchovy paste).

[princeofpork3]

On top of a rare burger

[Rodzilla]

Salt/Pepper

Maple Syrup

butter for frying sure, but as an additional topping...sinister.

Now Peanut Butter...yes, try it.

[CindyOhCindy]

Over easy with a little salt and lots of pepper, buttered toast for dunking.

[beantowntitletown]

On rice, I like 'em over easy using low heat so the whites set but the yolks are jiggly, then top it all with pepper and oyster sauce.

On toast or grits, over easy, salt and pepper, butter on the toast or grits, top it all with lots of hot sauce.

In a sandwich, over medium so the yolks don't run, salt and pepper, with a swipe of mayo and plenty of hot sauce.

[amznmmdprncss]

Soy sauce and eggs...I'll have to try it.

Anyway, when I fry eggs, I do it in olive oil, and I try to cook the white completely while leaving the yolks the consistency of melted cheddar. I season both sides with salt, pepper, and cumin, and use the rest of the oil to fry whole wheat bread and have it all as a sandwich.

That was a perfect uni, "I have 20 minutes to eat" meal.

[scubadoo97]

Make a fried egg most mornings for breakfast.

Use a spritz of cooking spray to ease movement and flipping for an over easy egg.

Top with S and P but will sometimes augment with a sprinkle of fresh chili powder like ancho or guajillo, za'atar or other spices to enhance the dish with what ever it's being served with.

[foodieX2]

Does it count that I like to top with oatmeal with a fried egg. Old fashion rough cut oats with one of my neighbors eggs? Yummy!

I love a fried egg sandwich. Runny yolk, good cheese and linguica. Hot sauce a plus

In a diner I like mine over easy with home fries. Lots of S&P

[ohmyyum]

I, too, like to top my steel cut oats with a fried egg. One of the best ways to take oatmeal out of the breakfast time slot.

[holypeaches]

I like steel cut oats topped with last night veggies, soy sauce and a over medium fries egg. The egg itself gets salt and tobasco then fresh pepper to finish.

[Puffin3]

I don't 'fry' eggs as such. I use very low heat, clarified butter and I always cover the pan with a glass lid. By now I've got the timing down pretty much to get silky, not runny yolks. It takes time but the texture and flavor is a thing to experience if you like your eggs. I alway have a little dollop of home made aioli on one side and a little dollop of home made ketchup on the other.
I made eggs this way lately for some house guests. Granted the eggs were local free range and they were at room temperature when I put them in the pan. One guest having tasted the eggs said: "This egg tastes like an egg".

[nomnomnoms]

Maggi sauce.

"it improves the taste!"

[Bill Hunt]

We normally serve them with course-ground grits, and I will usually add curry, pepper and some grey FR salt. I have also added Garam Marsala, when I felt like it.

The eggs are fried in Benton Applewood Smoked Bacon grease.

Hunt

[Midlife]

What time is breakfast Bill? ;o]]]

[PenskeFan]

Bacon.

[laststandchili]

One of my favorite variations for over easy is to sprinkle with good grated parm right before flipping. Melting the cheese directly against the pan and creates a magnificent crust. Serve over polenta.

[Cheese Boy]

You would probably like parmesan cheese crisps too.

[mwk]

Usually with a splash of Sriracha or other hot sauce on them. Sometimes I'll sprinkle some Garam Masala on the eggs as well.

I also like making what my mom used to call "rocky mountain toast", where you poke a hole in the middle of a piece of bread, grill it in the pan in butter, and break the egg into the hole and fry it that way.

[magic]

aka "Toad in the Hole".

:)

[ohmyyum]

Aka bird in a nest! :)

[Mer_Made]

So, only my family put a generous dollop of horseradish into the yolk?

[princeofpork3]

hot sauce, hot sauce, hot sauce

[alliegator]

Lately, it's been korean hot sauce and sesame seeds. Yum.

[GutGrease]

Hmmmm, "strictly" keeping with the OP's question my fried eggs are often "dressed" in a flour tortilla straight jacket, accessorized with a little S&P plus cholula sauce

[pretzal]

Nutritional yeast and black pepper, yummmm

[JungMann]

If they're on my breakfast platter it's nothing more than S&P with hot sauce on the side.

If we're having eggs for dinner they're fried with just enough oil to make them puffy and crisp on the edges and topped with scallions, chilies and oyster sauce or drizzled with beaten yogurt, garlic, dill, brown butter and pepper flakes.

[pie22]

dinner sounds delicious! rice on the side?

[Pwmfan]

Fried in salted butter; after removing the eggs from the pan I crank up the heat for as long as it takes to turn the butter a nutty golden brown and drizzle it over the eggs.

[ipsedixit]

Even though I don't like butter that technique sounds awesome.

[sandylc]

??????Don't like butter??????? I think I just swallowed my teeth!!!!! ;-\

[ipsedixit]

Hate the stuff. Never use it, except in baking and then only judiciously (much prefer lard or shortening if given the choice).

[Pwmfan]

Until this post I have always admired you; now I am more than a little afraid of you............

[ipsedixit]

??

You're, um, replying to yourself.

[Pwmfan]

I meant to reply to you; however, the fact that I sent this reply to myself is unsettlingly appropriate.

[biondanonima]

Browned butter and eggs are a match made in heaven. I love to brown butter, then scramble eggs in it. It turns them a somewhat horrendous color but the flavor is sublime.

[eepi]

If it's part of a breakfast plate that includes sausage patties, and there's maple syrup available, the maple syrup goes on the eggs as well as the sausage (I love sausage and syrup). Otherwise, usually just salt & pepper (sometimes just pepper). I don't think I've ever put ketchup on an egg, but might try that sometime.

[sandylc]

On a piece of multigrain toast with smashed avocado and sliced ripe tomatoes. Kosher salt to taste.

[Sinicle]

Usually Tobasco original, sometimes other hot sauce, often add fresh herbs.

[chloebell]

Fried over easy in bacon grease. Salt/Pepper. That's all it needs, the way God intended it to be!!!!

[petek]

Eggs over easy with kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper..(sometimes with a piece of cheese underneath)

[SweetPhyl]

a few shreds of sharp cheddar cheese and a good dollop of LA or Crystal's hot sauce. Unless it's atop a pancake, then just a bit o' salt and the syrup from the pancakes.

[Motosport]

Sunny side up fried eggs with cheese on top and pepper.
Scrambled eggs with pepper and ketchup.

[Cheese Boy]

TABASCO® brand Green Jalapeño Pepper Sauce, or just some fresh cracked pepper.

[macca]

sunny side up with salt and pepper, and a piece of toast for mopping!

[AngelaID]

Fried in butter or bacon grease. Fold back the white exposing the runny yolk, sprinkle with salt and dip my toast in. I only eat the yolks. Grandkids call them "dippy eggs"

[melpy]

Are your grand kids from PA?

[Uncle Bob]

Salt & Pepper mostly. Sometimes a dry seasoning. A little sprinkle of Zatarain's Crab Boil would be one.

Fried Eggs and Grits!!!!!!

[suzigirl]

+1 on fried eggs and grits. Love them on grits or cheese grits

[MonMauler]

Aren't scrambled eggs fried, Ipse?

S&P always goes on my fried eggs. Sometimes I will use hot sauce. If I have biscuits and gravy, I'll use the sausage gravy on my eggs. Salsa occasionally goes on my fried eggs. Cheese goes with my eggs only if I'm having them in a sandwich or wrap. Mustard often goes on my eggs in a fried egg sandwich or wrap, as well.

Most often, though, it's just the S&P.

[ipsedixit]

Aren't scrambled eggs fried, Ipse?
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Yes, but fried eggs aren't scrambled.

[Cheese Boy]

>> 'fried eggs aren't scrambled.' <<

Ipse, I don't know what she's doing here with the "fried" eggs, but it doesn't really matter. I think I'd eat the shells if she offered me any. LOL. Take a look --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=...

[ipsedixit]

Well, there's a lot of things in that that I would eat before the eggs ... Just saying.

[donovt]

Is it Wong that I watched that video twice? With no volume?

[ipsedixit]

Don't you mean you watched like the first minute of that video with no volume? Twice.

[Cheese Boy]

Ha ... and fast-forward to 5:10 and 7:03 of course too.

[Puffin3]

She can 'fry my eggs' any old time. Actually, she already did. ;))
This Youtube has gone into the 'Nothing interesting here just old recipes' folder. HAHA

[Harters]

Pepper

[GH1618]

Salt, pepper, and Cajun Sunshine hot sauce, all added at the start of cooking (in butter).

[Maximilien]

Fried in salted butter, so, only a little bit of pepper.

[carolinadawg]

salt/pepper/Texas Pete hot sauce and sometimes sausage gravy. I never have eggs with pancakes or waffles...always do them as separate meals.

[southernitalian]

Definitely a big glug of Texas Pete. On all types of eggs.

[pinehurst]

I fry in a salted butter/olive oil combo, and sometimes in bacon drippings, so I have them as is.

[magic]

Fried egg + toasted pita w. oilve oil drizzle + dried oregano + generous salt

Fried egg + quality bbq sauce (just a drizzle)

Fried egg + bacon jam

Fried egg + hot sauce

Fried egg + grated cheese

Salt/Black Pepper always present. Great question!