Breakfast Pizza – Vegemite, Cheese, Eggs And Bacon!
Last week I mentioned that I entered a competition to find the ultimate breakfast pizza, and that I would test out a few different kinds. As a big lover of vegemite from a young age, this was always going to be the first place that I would start 
Breakfast Pizza With Vegemite – The Concept
I love bacon and eggs on vegemite toast for breakfast in the mornings (I don’t do it very often, it’s just a special treat for every now and then), and this seemed like a natural progression. It also should be noted that bacon and eggs work really well on a pizza. I’m not sure about whether other countries and cultures would traditionally have this combination on a pizza, but in Australia you can find this just about anywhere that sells pizzas, and it’s known as the Aussie Pizza!
I’ve made all sorts of strange combinations of pizza, most have worked out pretty well, and some have been a total disaster. I’ve even made plenty of dessert pizzas, however breakfast pizza is a very new concept to me – but I’m loving it! (I’m even thinking of adding a new chapter to my pizza cookbook, a whole section dedicated to breakfast pizza).
Vegemite, Cheese, Egg And Bacon Breakfast Pizza – The Result
Breakfast Pizza - Vegemite, Cheese, Egg And Bacon
My excitement was building as I began to put this new concoction together, and I was starting to gather some interested onlookers made up of the restaurant staff who wanted to see what I was up to.
Their initial responses were a bit less than enthusiastic, but I took it all in my stride and carried on anyway.
Anyone who knows vegemite knows that you really don’t need a lot, so I was careful to start with just a thin layer on the pizza base, before spreading the cheese on top. I cut up 2 rashers of bacon into cubes, which were then spread around. Lastly, I cracked two eggs, and spread them around as best I could (Note: 2 eggs is probably too much, one would have been enough).
The result was a spectacular success! At least I think so, and those that were lucky enough (and brave enough) to try it.
I even managed to convince a couple of people who had been a bit apprehensive to give it a go, and all the comments were very positive. Feedback for my very first breakfast pizza ranged from “This is actually alright!”, to “This just has the WOW factor!”.
Anyway, if the picture of my breakfast pizza experiment is not enough to satisfy you, then I strongly suggest you give it a go yourself!
The Ultimate Breakfast Pizza Competition
Oh, and by the way, I was announced today as a finalist for the competition, to be held this Friday. The breakfast pizza that I will be cooking is the Eggs Florentine Pizza, and in the next post I’ll be sharing exactly how that goes…
Mick Reade
December 16th, 2010 at 11:27 am
[...] that I had thought of, and waited to see if I would get a call. There was a breakfast pizza with Vegemite, Cheese, Eggs and Bacon, a full works breakfast pizza, as well as Eggs Florentine and an Eggs Benedict Pizza. At this [...]