Celebrate World Egg Day by eating at least one egg today. This day falls every year in October on the second Friday. It was first celebrated in 1996 in Vienna, this year marks the silver jubilee of the event. An egg is an incredible powerhouse of nutrients with essential vitamins and minerals required for humans. Eggs with their “sunshine vitamin” have various health benefits: high-quality protein, antioxidants that protect the eyes, improves ‘good’ cholesterol, lower triglycerides, energy production, healthy brain etc.
In this context, let’s look at some of the varieties that can be dished out with the egg.
Eggs Benedict
It is an American breakfast, originated in New York. It consists of two halves of English muffins, topped with a poached egg, Canadian bacon, and a hollandaise sauce. Firstly, boil water with salt and add some vinegar to it and then stir the boiling water. Crack eggs into a bowl and add them to the boiled water. Cook for about three minutes and with a spoon remove them into a plate and then the poached egg will be ready. Then, cook bacon and toast the muffins. Make Hollandaise sauce by melting the butter and adding them in the blended combination of egg yolk, lemon juice, salt, mustard and pepper. Run the blender after adding butter. Later place the muffins on serving plates with the Canadian bacon on top. Place the poached egg above the Canadian bacon and pour some Hollandaise over it.
Pimiento Cheese Deviled Eggs
A wonderful side dish one should opt for eating. It takes only fifteen minutes to cook Pimiento Cheese Deviled Eggs. Boil eggs and cut the egg into two parts, remove the cooked yolks into a bowl. Add mayonnaise, cheddar cheese, pepper, garlic powder, mustard and salt to it. Use a mixer and fill the half-cut egg whites with these fillings on top. You can also add spices as per your wish but sprinkling smoky paprika on top of these fillings can make the delicacy more delicious.
Egg Custard Tarts
Originated in Portuguese, this is a perfect evening treat. It takes approximately 40-50 minutes of cooking time. Ingredients include eggs, plain flour, almonds, nutmeg, milk, and sugar. Mix plain flour, ground almonds, chilled unsalted butter and rub them together until it resembles bread crumbs. Then, stir them in the sugar and add eggs to the mixture. Mix them until it forms a soft dough. Arrange the dough in the form of a disc and wrap them in cling film. Refrigerate them for at least thirty minutes. While boiling milk, stir and mix it into a blended mixture of egg yolk and caster sugar and then sieve them into a jug. Take back the dough from the refrigerator and roll out the dough. Cut them out into small discs. Line them in the muffin tray and add the custard filling. Bake it and cool them off.
