Portuguese Breakfast Egg Skillet
by Connie DeSousa
Skillet fried farm fresh eggs, chouriçe, sourdough all cooked in a skillet in our wood fire oven or over a grill.
Connie grew up on this breakfast dish with her Portuguese family and enjoyed it every Sunday.
Cook Time
15 min
Servings
4
Ingredients
- 8 farm fresh eggs
- 1 loaf Sourdough bread
- 2 Tbsp Olive oil
- 1 Tbsp Portuguese pepper sauce
Sausage Recipe:
- 1 lb ground pork
- 1 tsp Kosher salt
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/4 tsp white pepper
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1/4 tsp chili flakes
- 1 Tbsp white wine
- 2 Tbsp Portuguese pepper sauce (heaping)
Instructions
Sausage Preparation:
- Make sure pork is cold, add to mixing bowl and mix in all dry ingredients
- Slowly add white wine and Portuguese pepper sauce and mix well with hand until pork becomes tacky on side of bowl and looks like it has a little bounce. (Approximately 5-7 minutes)
- Form into one large patty about 1.5 inch thick and place on parchment lined sheet pan and put in fridge until ready to cook
Putting it all together:
- Start up your wood fired grill to about 400F (it's ok to not use a wood grill but it won’t be as amazing!)
- Place the cast iron pan on the grill to pre-heat
- Once it has been on for about 5 minutes, add 2 Tbsp of the olive oil to pan
- Place the sausage patty to pan and cook until it is caramelized one the one side
- Flip over and cook for 3 more minutes then crack eggs and spread around the patty.
- Cook eggs until yolks are still soft but whites are fully cooked
- Drizzle eggs with the 1 Tbsp of Portuguese pepper sauce and serve while its hot
- Serve with a whole loaf of sourdough bread, it is meant to be ripped apart and used to soak up all the delicious sausage fats, egg yolks and Portuguese pepper sauce