Eggs Dominick

I’ve reinvented the brunch classic Eggs Benedict with Italian bacon, fried spinach and Italian salsa. It will leave your mouth smiling. Pancetta is a featured ingredient in this recipe. It's Italian bacon that is salt cured (American bacon is smoked) and seasoned with nutmeg, fennel, peppercorns, dried ground hot peppers and garlic, then dried for at least three months. Pancetta is often used in pasta dishes like carbonara and can be substituted for most recipes calling for American bacon.  You will enjoy it's savory flavor in anything you prepare with it. You can find it in the deli department of many mega marts.

Eggs Dominick

Italian Salsa Ingredients

2 Roma Tomatoes (diced)

5 Fresh Basil Leaves (chiffonade)

1 tsp Chopped Fresh Italian Parsley

1 tsp Balsamic Vinegar

1 tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil

¼ tsp Table Salt

Ingredients

6 slices Thick Cut Pancetta (~1/4 lb) *

18 spinach leaves (optional)

3 English Muffins

6 Large Pasteurized Eggs *

Put up the water for your egg poacher. I purchased an insert to one of my pots that holds 6 poachers and makes it simple to poach eggs. You can also purchase silicone poachers. If you don’t like poached eggs you can substitute fried eggs for the poached eggs.

Prepare the Italian salsa.

1.    Dice the roma tomatoes

2.    Chiffonade the basil (roll the leaves together and cut them so that you form thin slivers of basil)

3.    Chop the parsley

4.    Mix the diced tomatoes, basil, parsley, salt, vinegar, and olive oil together in a bowl

Heat up a large frying pan over medium high heat and cook the pancetta until crisp – drain on paper towels. Using the grease left in the pan from the pancetta, fry the spinach leaves until they start to crisp up. Drain on paper towels.

Split and lightly toast the English muffins.

Cook the eggs.



Pancetta



While the eggs are cooking, place 2 English muffin halves on a plate and top each with a slice of the fried pancetta and 3 fried spinach leaves. Place a poached egg on top of the fried spinach leaves. Top the eggs with the Italian Salsa.

* PRONTO SUBSTITUTES

Pancetta – You can substitute Canadian bacon directly for the pancetta or you can remove the casings from ½ lb of Italian Sausage and fry it until it’s cooked.

Eggs – I use pasteurized eggs because I like my yolks to be runny. If you cook your eggs fully you can substitute regular eggs

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