Prosciutto Pesto Egg Cups

By á-30

Ingredients

• Prosciutto
• Pesto
• Egg
• caramelized onions
• sauteed spinach
• cheese

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400°F
Spray a cupcake/muffin tin with cooking oil
Fold long strips of prosciutto into a cup
Layer in some caraway havarti (or cheese of choice)
Add a generous dollop of pesto
Gently crack an egg in the cup
Add salt and pepper.
Cook for approximately 10 minutes or until done

Above, we've added a slice of prosciutto on the bottom, some caramelized onions and sauteed spinach, cheese, and then the pesto and egg. Below, my boyfriend is carefully sprinkling the cups with salt and pepper. Know why I love this photo? Because he hates cooking and yet he wanted to customize his egg cup (bleu cheese, lots and lots of pesto) and so he was in the kitchen too, fussing over his egg cups.

But they look great in their ramekins. One of these days we're going to serve these for dinner guests. This recipe is quite adaptable.

Preheat the oven to 400F
Throw whatever ingredients you like into the ramekin. We like prosciutto, caramelized onions, cheese, pesto, and egg with salt and pepper.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes to your desired level of doneness.

Trying to see if we could find different temperatures and cooking times that might yield a solid egg white and runny yolk, we turned to the web for other recipes. We never did manage to get solid whites and runny yolks, but we did find two other recipes that gave us more ideas for playing with the recipe. The Culinary Chase suggested caramelizing some onions to add