Egg Recipes For Breakfast: Chilli Oil Eggs
Chilli Oil Eggs
7 mins
Cooking Time
Easy
Difficulty
12
Ingredients
Veg
Diet
One of the perfect egg recipes for breakfast, chilli oil eggs (better known as chilli crisp fried eggs) are one of those rare recipes that are so simple yet so transformative that they go viral and change the way people cook eggs forever. This recipe pushes back chilli oil or chilli crisp from being just a condiment meant for drizzling over eggs, astas and more to being the very oil that eggs (in this case) are cooked in.
The magical Chinese condiment of chilli oil is half spicy oil, half crunchy, garlicky, aromatic bits, combined with toasted sesame oil, making for one of the best, but spicy egg recipes for breakfast, out there. What happens in the pan is genuinely mesmerising to watch, as long as the aroma released that will inadvertently fill your kitchen.
As the eggs hit the bright-red chilli crisp oil, the whites immediately begin to bubble and crisp around the edges, turning golden and lacy like delicate fried cheese. The oil-soaked edges turn minglingly crispy, while the tops, the yolks, remain runny and soft. Meanwhile, all those crunchy bits in the chilli crisp from the fried garlic, onions, and salt cling to the eggs, infusing every bite with flavour.
Ingredients
UNITSIngredients
For the eggs:
2Large eggs
1 tablespoon Chilli oil (with oil and crunchy bits)
1 teaspoonToasted sesame oil
a pinchSalt
1Medium onion (thinly sliced)
Optional garnish and serving:
for sprinkling Furikake (Japanese rice seasoning)
for drizzlingSoy sauce or tamari
for garnishExtra sliced onions
For serving options:
1 cupHot cooked rice (Jasmine)
2 slicesCrispy toast or sourdough
for garnishSesame seeds
for servingAdditional chilli oil