St. Patrick's Day Green Eggs Breakfast
Did you know that green eggs were possible with the addition of only one natural ingredient? As huge Dr. Seuss fans, we set out to discover if we could indeed make green eggs and ham! We'd eat these year round of course, but given that St. Patrick's Day is coming up, this would be a fun breakfast to make.
As we were making our Sauerkraut recipe one morning, I realized we had the exact ingredient we need to pull off green eggs and ham. Although, as it was spur of the moment, we didn’t actually have any ham :).
I set aside some of the red cabbage. Then add 1/4 tsp of salt. If you'll be making a lot of eggs, see the recipe below to scale it up to more eggs (there's actually a microwave method too).
The salt will extracted just a bit of the cabbage juice.
This is all I used for one egg. Of course, if you’re making more and not just experimenting you’ll need to scale this up. I could’ve stolen some of the liquid from our sauerkraut but you really should use every bit for the fermentation process.
With the yellow separated from the white, mix the egg white into the cabbage juice.
Give it a mix. It’s starting to turn green! Due to some scienc-y stuff I don’t understand, the colour will change right before your eyes.
It’s ready to cook.
Heat a pan with a ring and pour it in.
Add the egg yolk.
Now, cook the egg as you normally would.
It’s definitely green! But I think next time we’ll add more cabbage juice to see if we can get it a bit more concentrated. Of course, you could get a more vibrant effect with food colouring. But why buy that when we just happened to have some cabbage!
I don't think you can avoid the bubbles and you may notice a slight difference in taste due to the cabbage, but it’s certainly fun to try it out – especially if you make sauerkraut like we do!
One day, the stars will align and we'll do a full on green eggs and ham. If you're a Seuss fan like us, you could eat this year round but, if not, with St. Patrick's Day coming up, give it a try!
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St. Patrick's Day Green Eggs Breakfast
Recipe details
- 1 egg
- Prep time: 20 Minutes Cook time: 4 Minutes Total time: 24 min
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