Hey Pesto! Eggs’tra special ways to make the viral TikTok pesto eggs recipe your own
Don’t deny it, we all love a viral recipe. This latest one, pesto eggs, definitely lives up to the hype! We kick it up with our own sausage pesto eggs brunch recipe.
The latest viral TikTok brunch recipe, pesto eggs, is super simple, you’d not believe the outcome! Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction!
Made viral by Amy Wilichowski, the TikTok video has been seen by over 11.6 million people and more than 1.3 million people have liked it on the app.
I just tried the pesto eggs brunch recipe for myself and it lives up to the hype, unlike some others that go viral on TikTok. (Not mentioning any names, feta pasta bake)
Here’s the way I did pesto eggs, followed by some ideas on ways to spice them up (which I will make and post updates here, so make sure to subscribe and follow):
Pesto Eggs
Ingredients
2 eggs
2 tablespoons pesto
2 halves of ciabatta (or other bread)
butter
cream cheese or ricotta
1 teaspoon red pepper/chilli flakes
pinch Maldon sea salt flakes
pinch white pepper
cracked black pepper
drizzle of honey
Few sprigs of fresh parsley
Method
Heat oven to 180°C. Meanwhile, heat frying pan on medium-low (you don’t want the pesto to burn).
Once oven and pan are up to temperature, add ciabatta halves to oven and set timer to 3 mins, then add pesto to frying pan.
After 1 min, add the eggs to the pesto and fry until cooked to your liking.
Whilst eggs are cooking, remove ciabatta from oven and spread with butter and cream cheese.
Once eggs are done, remove with spatula and place on top of the ciabatta halves.
Top the pesto eggs with sprinkles of red pepper/chilli flakes, Maldon sea salt flakes, pinch of white pepper, crack black pepper.
Finish with drizzle of honey and sprigs of fresh parsley.
Eggstra Special Pesto Eggs Recipes 🍳
Now that I’ve tried the original, simple pesto egg recipe, my mind is racing with novel ways of spicing up the recipe.
I will be trying these A LOT! And I will keep updating this page with new pesto eggs recipes and my thoughts on what works and what doesn’t. Hopefully, finding the ULTIMATE PESTO EGGS recipe 😋
The first thing that come to mind, was another simple, student recipe I used to make all the time when I was in college; sausage and pesto pasta.
So immediately I can see that sausage pesto eggs would be amazing. Here’s how I will do them:
Sausage Pesto Eggs
Ingredients
2 eggs
3 tablespoons pesto
2 halves of ciabatta (or other bread)
1 butchers sausage
1 small shallot, or 1/4 cup of red onion, diced
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
butter
1 teaspoon red pepper/chilli flakes
pinch Maldon sea salt flakes
pinch white pepper
cracked black pepper
1 tablespoon maple syrup
Few sprigs of fresh parsley
Method
Heat oven to 180°C.
Meanwhile, heat oil in frying pan on high and add diced shallot/red onion. Cook until caramelised.
Whilst onion is cooking, cut sausage down the middle and peel off the skin. Break/mash sausage meat up and add to pan. Fry until browning and crisping.
Crush fennel seeds with your fingers in the palm of your hand and add to pan and mix into sausage meat.
Add 1tbsp of pesto and mix well. Cook for a further 1 min and move pesto sausage meat mixture to one side of the pan, slightly off the heat.
Lower frying pan to medium-low (you don’t want the pesto to burn).
Once oven and pan are at desired temperature, add ciabatta halves to oven and set timer to 3mins and add remaining pesto to frying pan.
After 1min, add the eggs to the pesto and fry until cooked to your liking.
Whilst eggs are cooking, remove ciabatta from oven and butter.
Once eggs are done, spoon pesto sausage meat on to the toasted bread, then remove pesto eggs with spatula and place on top of the pesto sausage meat.
Top the pesto eggs with sprinkles of red pepper/chilli flakes, Maldon sea salt flakes, pinch of white pepper, and crack black pepper.
Finish with sprigs of fresh parsley and drizzle of maple syrup.
More Eggstra Special Pesto Eggs Recipes 🍳
Other creative, delicious ways that come to mind to try:
Pesto scrambled eggs: scramble eggs in pesto instead of frying them
Pesto eggs with smoked salmon: same basic pesto eggs recipe at top of page, lay slice of smoked salmon on bread after spreading cream cheese
Pesto eggs with tuna: same basic pesto eggs recipe at top of page, spread some tuna mixed with apple cider vinegar on bread in place of cream cheese
Pesto Eggs Benedict: same basic pesto eggs recipe at top of page, topped with hollandaise sauce
Pesto Eggs Benedict with ham
Pesto Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon
Basically, anything you can do with Eggs Benedict, you can do with pesto eggs!
🥑 Smash avocado onto the toast after cheese
🧀 Substitute cream cheese with ricotta, mozzarella, or provolone
Substitute green pesto for red pesto
🍅 Dice up sun dried tomatoes and top pesto eggs with it to serve
🥓 Candied bacon pesto eggs: copy the sausage pesto eggs recipe, but replace the sausage meat with candied bacon.
OR, don’t sub out the sausage meat at all and spoil yourself with sausage and candied bacon pesto eggs 🥱😛