Sicilian Eggs

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 2 eggs
• 1 onion
• 1 knob butter
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomatoes
• salt
• pepper
• 1 pinch sugar
• 1 pinch dried herbs
• 2 slices bacon

Recipe

• 1 hard boil the eggs for 10 minutes. cool them in cold running water. shell them, rinse clean, slice thickly and arrange in a greased, heat-proof dish.
• 2 peel and slice the onion, and fry it in the butter in a small saucepan over a moderate heat, until soft (about 5 minutes). add the tomatoes, salt, pepper, sugar and herbs, and cook gently for a further 5 minutes. heat the grill.
• 3 pour the tomato mixture over the eggs, top with the de-rinded bacon rashers and place under the hot grill until the bacon is cooked.
• 4 if you do not have a grill, fry the bacon in the pan with the onions, remove it and keep it hot while the tomatoes are cooking, then top the tomato mixture with the hot, cooked bacon.