English breakfast "Fry Up", made in one pan only.

[DetlefK]

This is the main course of the classic english breakfast. The appetizer is a glass of orange-juice and the desert is toast and jam with tea/coffee.



Kitchen-tools:
A deep non-stick pan and a spatula. (I absolutely love silicon-spatulas and silicon kitchen-tongs. They don't scratch your non-stick pan and you can get a good one for $5-10.)

Serves 1-2:
- a few slices of bread and some butter
- 1 tomato
- small handfull of mushrooms
- 2 slices of blood-sausage, cut 1 inch thick
- 2-3 small pork sausages
- 2-3 bacon-strips
- 2 eggs
- half a can of baked beans in tomato-sauce (store the rest in a glass with lid for next time)

1. Pre-heat the pan to medium-to-high. Add a little bit of oil. Lightly butter the bread on both sides. Once the pan is hot, gently fry on both sides. (~5 minutes)

2. While the bread is frying:
Cut the tomato in half, clean the mushrooms (just peel the skin off) and cut the blood-sausage.

3. When the bread is done:
Remove bread from pan. Increase heat to high. Add a little bit of oil. Add tomato cut-side down, add mushrooms round-side down, add blood-sausage. Fry without stirring.

4. When there's juice coming out of the mushrooms:
Flip mushrooms and tomatos, but DO NOT flip the blood-sausage yet. The blood-sausage takes really long to form a crust.
Add pork sausages and bacon-strips. Store fried bacon-strips on top of the vegetables to protect them from the heat.

5. When the bacon is done:
The blood-sausage should have formed a crust by now, so you can safely flip it. Rearrange the meat and vegetables so they divide the pan into two zones. Reduce heat to medium.
Crack two eggs into one zone. Add half a can of baked beans in the other zone.
Fry for ~5-10 minutes.

6. When the egg-white is firm and the yolk still soft:
Dish is ready. Traditionally served all-in-one on one plate (per person).
If you don't like soft egg-yolk, you heathen, simply cover the pan with a lid after adding the eggs.

[northoftheborder]

1. Sounds good (except the blood sausage)!

[DetlefK]

2. Ever tried it? Fried blood-sausage is fantastic.

[JHan]

7. I love it...

in Barbados and Trinidad there are some great blood sausage recipes - key is the seasoning.

when I fry it up I carmelize onions and cherry peppers with it, toss in some thyme and rosemary, and eat it with "fry bake"-

[Warpy]

6. I think it's llkely an acquired taste

but it's not as awful as its name suggests, it's blood mixed with oatmeal (usually) and no worse than scrapple made with liver and kidney.

In fact, about the only thing in an English fry up I like are the veggies.

[Rollo]

3. Serves how many?

Please don't say one!

[Siwsan]

4. The British don't break-fast. They SHATTER it!

I do so love a nice, big traditional Full English Fry Up!

[TlalocW]

5. That's a breakfast that's a bit too big for me

Maybe if I skipped lunch and dinner the day before or had it for lunch. It sounds good though.

TlalocW