Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza
Tomorrow is the day for the Big Breakfast Pizza Challenge, and I’m a little nervous but mostly excited. It’s the first pizza competition that I’ve ever been in, and I think it will be lot’s of fun! The battle lines have been drawn, and my weapon of choice will be the Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza.
The Eggs Florentine Pizza
Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza
The concept is reasonably simple – a traditional eggs florentine is an English muffin, topped with wilted spinach, smoked salmon, poached egg, with some hollandaise sauce poured on top. The trick is, how do you put this on a breakfast pizza?
Well, this is how I did it…
There will no English muffin of course, that will be replaced by the pizza base. I cover the base with some spinach leaves, and then add some shredded Caboolture cheese over the spinach (it’s better to put the spinach under the cheese, to protect it from burning in the pizza oven).
Then I crack an egg, and carefully spread it around the pizza as best I can. This part is a bit messy, but that’s half the fun of it sometimes!
Putting a poached egg on the breakfast pizza is out of the question I think. If you put a cooked egg on a pizza and then cook it again, it will just end up rubbery and terrible.
However it just occurred to me that you could probably try poaching an egg to place on after the pizza is cooked… I haven’t tried this yet, so I don’t know if it would work that well, but anything’s possible!
Next, I simply cook the pizza for about 5 minutes in my raging hot wood-fired pizza oven (you can cook pizza in a domestic oven at home, as long as the temperature is cranked all the way up, and you have a tray with some greaseproof paper or semolina underneath. Cooking times will depend on your oven, once you have a crispy base and the cheese is nicely melted and starting to brown, your pizza is ready).
The Piece De Resistance…
Once the pizza is cooked, I pull it out of the oven and add some small slices of fresh smoked salmon. I prefer to put the smoked salmon on after the pizza is cooked to retain its fresh flavours. You can cook it on the pizza if you like, but I don’t think you will get quite the same delicious results.
Then I just top it with little dollops of hollandaise sauce that I have already prepared, cut it into slices, and breakfast pizza is served!
Below I’ve added a short helpful video on how to make Hollandaise Sauce…
Mick Reade
December 19th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Hey mick your pizzas rock x
December 19th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Thanks Fiona
December 19th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
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