Healthy pesto eggs on toast
Add to favourite + Print Print

Healthy pesto eggs on toast

By Sara Buenfeld

Try a speedy, low-fat pesto as a delicious alternative to oil for frying eggs – it adds great flavour to the dish, too, to make a perfect brunch or lunch

  • Prep:5 mins
    Cook:15 mins
  • Serves 2
  • Easy

Nutrition per serving

  • kcal 287
  • fat 17g
  • saturates 3g
  • carbs 17g
  • sugars 0g
  • fibre 4g
  • protein 15g
  • salt 0.8g

Ingredients

  • 2-4 thin slices rye sourdough (about 70g total, depending on the size of the loaf)
  • 2 eggs
  • 170g tomatoes on-the-vine
  • 160g baby spinach
  • pinch of chilli flakes (optional)
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 10g basil
  • 1 tbsp pine nuts
  • 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
  • 1 tbsp finely grated parmesan or vegetarian alternative

Method

  1. To make the pesto, peel the garlic clove and put in a small food processor along with the basil, pine nuts, oil and 2 tbsp water. Blitz until smooth, then stir in the cheese. Or, blitz using a hand blender.

  2. Toast the bread and divide between two plates. Cook the pesto in a frying pan over a medium heat for 30 seconds, stirring. Crack the eggs into one side of the pan, put the tomatoes in the other, and fry in the pesto until the eggs are cooked to your liking.

  3. Lift out the eggs and put each one on a slice of toast. Add the spinach to the pan with the tomatoes, turn the heat up to high and cook until wilted, about 2-3 mins. The tomatoes should be soft. Spoon the veg onto the other toast slice and sprinkle with the chilli flakes, if you like.

Suggested recipes from this collection...