Eggy Bread With Crisp Bacon And Spiked Tomatoes

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 eggs
• salt and pepper
• 4 slices bread, cut in half diagonally
• 12 slices smoked streaky bacon
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 large tomatoes, sliced into four
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons chili oil
• 2 tablespoons basil leaves

Recipe

• 1 preheat the broiler.
• 2 beat the eggs in a large bowl and season well.
• 3 pour into a large shallow dish, dip the slices of bread in the egg mixture and leave for a few minutes to soak.
• 4 meanwhile broil the bacon for 1-2 minutes on each side until crisp. keep warm in a low oven.
• 5 in a large frying pan, melt the butter with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil.
• 6 add half of the soaked bread and fry for 2 minutes on each side or until crisp and golden.
• 7 meanwhile heat the remaining olive oil in a separate frying pan.
• 8 add the tomato slices and sprinkle over the sugar.
• 9 fry for 1-2 minutes on each side or until the tomato slices have caramelized and softened, but still retaining their shape. shake over the chilli oil and remove from the heat.
• 10 to serve, place two pieces of eggy bread, slightly overlapping on the centre of each plate and top each with 3 slices of bacon.
• 11 place a spoonful of the tomatoes to the side of the bread and tear over the basil.
• 12 serve immediately.