Baked Egg, Nested in Avocado

This is a healthy, highly nutritious breakfast that's very easy to make. It requires pretty much less than five ingredients: the avocado, the egg, and whatever spices/sauces you want to flavour it with. For this one, I used salt, pepper, pesto and Sriracha sauce.

Here's a link to some of the healthy benefits of the avocado. Read here.

I made this for Easter Sunday breakfast at home, a few weeks ago. I served the avocado with some Green Tea & Chocolate Waffles with berries. It was a very interesting contrast in taste and texture: the crispy edges of the waffle with the creaminess of the avocado; the subtle sweetness of the chocolate in the waffle, with the tartness of the berries and spicy, savoury flavour of the toppings on the avocado. If you'd like to see the recipe for the waffles, click here.

BAKED EGG, NESTED IN AVOCADO
Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 ripe avocados (Note: The avocados I get here in Singapore are quite small; about 3 inches in length)
2 eggs
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
A few teaspoons of store bought pesto
Sriracha sauce

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven to 350F. Slice the avocados in half, and remove the pit.

2. Put the sliced avocados on a baking dish. Scoop out some of the flesh in the centre of the avocado, so that more of the egg can fit in. But do NOT throw the flesh that you have scooped out! Put it in a ramekin. (I hate wasting food, so I'm going to put this in a ramekin and do the same thing).

3. Season the avocado with the spices that you have chosen. In this case, I put salt, freshly ground pepper, pesto and sriracha sauce.

4. Break the egg and put it into the avocado holes. You will find that depending on the size of your avocado, one whole egg might be too much so apportion it accordingly. In this case, these avocados were pretty small (3 inches in length), so I ended up dividing one egg for two avocados. Make sure you get some of the yolk into both avocados too by scooping out part of the yolk with the shell.

Do the same for the avocado flesh that you put into the ramekin. Break an egg on top of it after you put all the seasonings.

5. Place the baking dish into the oven, on the top 1/3 of it so that the top will be cooked quickly. Bake until the egg is cooked, according to your desired level of doneness (soft boiled or hard boiled).

Serve hot. A truly delicious and healthy breakfast indeed!