I love eggs benedict and, as I had to create a dish with pasta, I came up with the idea of Italian egg Benedict, where the English muffin would be replaced by pasta, but keeping the presence of bread with breadcrumbs that added a bit of crunch!
My pasta of choice were bucatini from Delverde. I like bucatini, which is thicker than spaghetti.
It is a fairly easy dish to make and it only requires couple of steps!
Step 1- cook the pasta:
Once the water is brought to a boil, add salt (no oil: just stir from time to time) and then the pasta and cooked to the preferred consistency; the instructions say 7 minutes, but, I prefer 10 minutes.
Then strain them in a colander.
Step 2- Cut three stripes of bacon in small slices.
Step 3- in a pan, put 1/4 of a cup of olive oil and put right away the bacon, that way, it will infuse in the olive oil. Once the bacon is brown, add a tea spoon of oregano.
Step 4- put the pasta in the pan with the olive oil and bacon. Stir and cook for five minutes at low heat.
Step 5- prepare the egg.
For the photo, I fried the egg in a ring to give it a round shape. But you can make a poached egg (check out how to make a perfect poached egg!).
Step 6- serve!
In a pasta bowl, put the pasta and the egg in the center. Add breadcrumbs (I added 1 table spoon).
Et voilà! Bon Appétit!
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