When I visited my friend in North Carolina we went to a brunch spot and got an eggs benedict with green fried tomatoes and lets just say I haven't stopped thinking about it since! So here we are making our own and luckily my garden is full of tomatoes right now! The fried tomatoes take the place of the meat---but if you still want to throw on some Canadian ham by all means. The tomatoes provide a great crunch and freshness that the creamy hollandaise compliments so well. And don't even get me started about the biscuit that holds it all together!! Its a savory and fresh brunch that you're sure to love, I'd also recommend adding some raspberry jam on the side.
Ingredients:
Eggs Benny:
Fried green tomatoes
Hollandaise
3-4 eggs (poached)
3-4 Biscuits ( I usually make bisquick)/ 3-4 English muffins
Paprika (to garnish)
Fried Green Tomatoes:
3-4 Green tomatoes (preferably a beef steak)
½ cup flour
½ tsp paprika
½ tsp kosher salt
½ tsp pepper
½ cup panko bread crumbs
2 eggs
½ cup canola oil
Hollandaise:
8 tbsp softened butter
3 egg yolks
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp water
Instructions:
Eggs Benny:
Start with your biscuits, I usually just make bisquick ones (they're fast and always good), from the dough I’ll make 3-4 larger sized biscuits they cook for about 12-15 minutes.
While your biscuits cook, make the green fried tomatoes, and start boiling your water for the poached eggs.
Once done with your tomatoes, grab a sauce pan and whip up the hollandaise sauce.
While the hollandaise cooks--- poach your eggs. Put a couple eggs in the boiling water for 2-3 minutes. Then scoop them out when they are all done.
Now assembly. Slice your biscuit in half (like a sandwich roll), put a layer of hollandaise on the biscuit, stack 2 fried tomatoes on top, drizzle with hollandaise, then add the poached egg on top and again drizzle with hollandaise. You can top this with paprika if you like.
Enjoy!
Fried Green Tomatoes:
Slice the tomatoes into ¼” slices.
Crack the eggs into a bowl and whisk them. Mix the flour, paprika, salt and pepper in a second bowl, and then pour the panko into a third bowl.
Form an assembly line, first dip the tomato slices into the egg, the flour, egg again, then the panko. Set them aside on a plate while you coat the rest.
Heat the oil in a pan, then fry the tomatoes for 1-2 minutes on each side (until golden).
Set aside for assembly.
Hollandaise Sauce:
In a saucepan add the egg yolks, lemon juice, and water, whisk over low heat until yolks thicken and double in volume.
Next add the butter 1 tbsp at a time, continuously whisking (still on low heat). Eggs will get thick, pale and fluffy. The whisk should leave trails in the sauce---takes about 10 minutes.
Add salt and pepper to taste
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