Egg in a Hole

Name: Egg in a Hole
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: american
Ingredients: 8 white sandwich bread; 8 large eggs; 5 tbsp salted butter; 1 tsp kosher salt; 1/2 tsp ground black pepper; 3 oz shredded cheddar cheese

A round cut out of buttered bread, an egg cracked into the gap, both fried together in one pan.

Egg in a Hole, plated and ready to serve

Serves: 4
Total time: 15 min
Cost per serving (United States): $5.23

Ingredients

8 white sandwich bread
8 large eggs
5 tbsp salted butter
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
3 oz shredded cheddar cheese(optional)

Method

Cut a round out of the center of each slice of bread with a glass. Keep the cut-out rounds.
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat and lay in as many slices as fit, along with the rounds.
Crack an egg into each hole and season with salt and pepper.
Cook 3 minutes, until the bread is golden underneath and the white has set enough to hold together.
Slide a thin spatula all the way under and flip, adding more butter to the pan. Cook 2 minutes more for a runny yolk.
Serve with the toasted rounds for dipping and a little cheese melted over if you like.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 5 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
Country	Whole recipe	Per serving	Priced from
United States	$20.92	$5.23	5 of 5 ingredients
United Kingdom	£21.95	£5.49	5 of 5 ingredients
Australia	$36.26	$9.07	5 of 5 ingredients
New Zealand	$44.90	$11.23	5 of 5 ingredients
Greece	25,60 €	6,40 €	5 of 5 ingredients
Egypt	‏٩٣٤٫٤٦ ج.م.‏	‏٢٣٣٫٦٢ ج.م.‏	5 of 5 ingredients
Canada	$71.02	$17.76	5 of 5 ingredients
Spain	15,96 €	3,99 €	5 of 5 ingredients
Mexico	$513.30	$128.33	4 of 5 ingredients
Germany	11,45 €*	2,86 €	3 of 5 ingredients
Austria	€ 23,21*	€ 5,80	3 of 5 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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Egg in a Hole

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