Italian Baked Eggs Recipe - Baked Eggs in Marinara Sauce

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Baked eggs are my favorite. I have tried this recipe so many times and it has never failed me. It is perfect for breakfast or for brunch…

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The key for this recipe is to get the marinara sauce perfect. It has to be acidic and sweet at the same time. My recipe for marinara sauce is perfect and it has a little kick from the chili flakes as well. And the topping of the parmesan cheese which turns little crispy when baked is just delicious. If you don’t have parmesan cheese you can use cheddar cheese as well..

Make sure you have few slices of toasted buttered bread to dip into that eggy tomato juice. And the baking time depends on you, if you really want the eggs to be runny then 10 mins is perfect, for soft boiled kind of eggs 12 mins is best, for a fully cooked egg, bake it for 15 mins or more..

And for the marinara sauce use the best quality tomatoes you can afford, I chose the Family Farmed Redpack Tomatoes , which worked great for me. You can use the Redpack Tomatoes with basil, garlic and oregano. It adds more flavor to the recipe. Otherwise, you can use the Redpack Crushed Tomatoes like I did.

The reason why I use Redpack Tomatoes is because their quality tomatoes come from family farms. Redpack also provides peace of mind to their consumers by being Non-GMO project verified as well as having the safest packaging by using non-BPA/BPS lined cans. Above all the taste is what matters, I really enjoyed the fresh taste of these tomatoes a lot. Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

Preparation Time : 5 mins
Cooking Time : 15 mins
Baking Time : 10 to 12 mins
Serves: 2 to 3

Ingredients:

Olive Oil - 2 tblspn
White Onion - 1 large size chopped finely
Garlic - 4 cloves chopped finely
Crushed Tomatoes - 1 can (I used Redpack Crushed Tomatoes)
Red Chilli Flakes - 1 tsp or to taste
Dried Basil - 1 tsp
Coriander leaves or Parsley or Basil - 3 tblspn finely chopped
Eggs - 2 to 4
Parmesan Cheese as needed
Salt to taste
Sugar - 1 tsp

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degree C.

Heat olive oil in a pan, add in onions and cook them till onions starts to turn light golden.

Now add in garlic, red chili flakes and dried basil and sauté for a min or so.

Now add in tomatoes and cook them down til the sauce is thick.

Now add in salt, sugar to taste and mix well. Now add in parsley or basil and give a good mix.

Take a baking dish and spoon this sauce in to the baking dish.

Use the back of the spoon to make wells for the eggs. Crack open eggs in each hole and sprinkle the top with parmesan cheese and cilantro or basil.

Bake for 10 to 12 mins. Now remove it and serve with crunchy toasted bread.

Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients

heat olive oil in a pan

add in onions

cook them down till it starts to get lightly golden

now add in garlic

add in dried basil and red chilli flakes

mix that around

add in tomatoes

mix that through

you have to cook this down till it thickens

add salt

and a little sugar to balance the acidity in the tomatoes

cover the pan with a lid and cook

now it is done

add in parsley or basil

mix well

take a baking dish

spoon the sauce in this

use the back of a spoon to make wells

crack open eggs in it

sprinkle the top with parmesan cheese

top with coriander leaves

bake as per your liking

Serve

dont miss some toasted crunchy bread

Comments

deeps

February 10, 2016 at 11:43 am

This looks very yummy aarti. If ww use fresh tomatoes, we need to boil them and then crush them? The way we make a soup?

Aarthi

February 15, 2016 at 4:26 pm

@deepsyes u can use fresh, first blanch them in boiling water, peel the skin and chop them up and add

Anonymous

February 23, 2016 at 6:01 pm

Hi..Aarthi..I m a big fan of your recipes.Every recipe I have tried till now turns out great.
I wanted to try this recipe but not sure that how many
fresh tomatoes should I use in this dish.Please tell me.
Thank you

Anonymous

February 23, 2016 at 6:17 pm

Hi Aarthi..I am a big fan of your recipes.Till now I have tried many recipes..and
All of them turned out great. I wanted to make this dish..Can you please tell
Me that how many fresh tomatoes should I use if not using canned tomatoes.
Thank you ��

Aarthi

February 26, 2016 at 10:42 am

@Anonymoususe 3 chopped tomatoes

Anonymous

March 25, 2016 at 7:39 pm

Hey..pls let me know how can make this in microwave pls.

Aarthi

March 29, 2016 at 1:56 pm

@Anonymousu need convection mode for that or cook for a min in microwave

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