Fried Bacon and Egg Sandwich (homemade Egg Mcmuffin)
Traditional dish with muffins, sliced in half, bacon, eggs.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- advanced
- USA
Ingredients
- 2 english muffins, sliced in half
- 4 strips bacon
- 2 eggs
Steps
- Get your English muffins ready to toast.
- Over medium heat, fry bacon in one layer, turning often until browned and crispy to your taste.
- Lower the heat if the bacon fat starts to spatter.
- Remove the bacon to a plate lined with paper towels.
- Pat the bacon with another sheet of paper towel to remove some of the excess fat.
- Pour most of the remaining fat from the pan into a teacup, leaving most of the brown bits in the pan.
- Wash and dry the pan.
- Put it back on the heat.
- Pour about a tablespoon of the bacon fat back into the pan.
- Start toasting the English muffins.
- Crack the eggs into the pan.
- Add salt and pepper.
- Fry for about 2 minutes.
- Break the yolks, spreading them over the whites.
- Flip the eggs.
- Fry for another minute.
- Assemble your sandwiches with the English muffins, bacon, and fried eggs.
- Serve.
Adapted from “Fried Bacon and Egg Sandwich (Homemade Egg McMuffin)”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.