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Breakfast for 4 (8 slices of toast, 4 sunny side up(s), 4 glasses of orange juice and a portion of baked beans).

Ingredients

- 4 Eggs
- 8 slices of white bread
- Butter
- Ghee (or reuse butter)
- 1 can of baked beans
- Salt & Pepper
- 1L tetra pack of orange juice

Other Requirements

- Frying pan (tava) + Spatula
- Toaster
- Microwave

Steps to Prepare

1. Sunny Side Up

  1. Preheat the pan a little bit. Wait till the air above the pan feels warm.

  2. Add butter or ghee to the pan. Just enough for the area in which the egg will be cooked to be covered with a thin layer of melted ghee / butter.

  3. Hit the egg with a spoon, gently. Hit it in the middle, when horizontally oriented. Form a small dent in the egg, with thin cracks dividing it, but without the egg breaking right away.

  4. Crack the egg open and spill they white and the yolk onto the pan. Make the drop from close to the pan. Don't open the egg too wide open. If done successfully, the white will fall first and begin to cook, and the yolk can be dropped 15-30 seconds later, so that its position can be more central, and so that it will finally remain more runny than the rest of the sunny side up.

  5. Add some salt to taste. Put a little bit of salt across the entire egg.
  6. Cover either the entire tava, or at least the entire egg with a lid or some other vessel. This will ensure that enough heat is reaching the top portion of the egg, which isn't in direct contact with the tava.

  7. Once the edges have become clearly solid, and start to brown (ever so slightly), try lifting the egg up from the edge. If the bottom of the egg has become light brown, or has become solid and is becoming crisper, the egg is done.
  8. Remove the egg from the pan, and place on a plate (use a spatula, and always keep the yolk side facing up. Sprinkle pepper all across the egg, and be generous with the same.

2. Toast the Bread

  1. Toast the bread in a toaster, for a crisper finish. Avoid tava toasted bread. Aim for a light brown crisp finish.

  2. Toast 8 such slices of bread (2 per person).
  3. Butter the bread generously (one side per slice) and ensure that the entire slice is covered.

  4. Aim to butter the bread immediately after it has come out of the toaster, so that the butter immediately melts and blends in (bread should turn golden wettish, and not have a white layer over it).
  5. Do this towards the end, so that the bread remains warm when served (the eggs might not be warm when served).

3. Baked Beans

  1. Use a can of baked beans, open it and empty it into a microwavable bowl.

  2. Place the bowl in the microwave (pay attention to microwaving instructions and settings on the can).
  3. Heat the baked beans for about 2 minutes (or follow instructions on can).
  4. Ensure that this is done right at the end (in parallel with or after buttering bread), so that the baked beans remain wamr through out breakfast.

4. Orange Juice

  1. Serve with a glass of cold orange juice (100% orange juice is best).

Serve with the sunny side up on one slice of toast, and the other slice plain (for baked beans). Serve the baked beans in a bowl (prefereably small bowls for each plate). Beans should be piping warm, orange juice nice and cold (with ice cubes) and bread still warm.