Fried Eggs (olive Oil-basted)
Traditional dish with extra-virgin olive oil, egg.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
Ingredients
- ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 egg
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
Steps
- Heat olive oil in a frying pan over a low-medium heat (you will break the olive oil if you heat it too much).
- Crack open one egg into the pan.
- Let fry while basting the yolk with hot oil in order to cook the top.
- If the egg begins to bubble, lower the heat.
- Serve, adding salt and pepper to taste.
Adapted from “Fried Eggs (Olive Oil-basted)”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.