Food Feature,  Vannaspice

The Perfect Breakfast Sando

There’s nothing like a beautifully crafted bagel sandwich on a lazy Sunday morning… or any morning, really. Skip the diner chaos and learn the secrets to constructing the perfect breaky sandwich from the comfort of your own home (van).

Photos by Iz La Motte
@izmottephoto

Ingredients:

  • Favorite bagel OR 2 bread
  • 1 egg
  • 2 bacon strips
  • Favorite hard cheese (think parmesan, cheddar, asiago, etc.), grated
  • Fresh cilantro
  • Arugula
  • Avocado
  • 1/4″ thick slab of butter
  • Large mason jar ring
The mason jar ring is CRUCIAL for that perfectly round fried egg

Directions:

  1. Cook bacon and set aside. Call me a sinner but I prefer simply to heat up pre-cooked bacon from Trader Joe’s to keep my van and all belongings smelling like bacon for a week.
  2. Melt butter over medium/high heat and crack egg into the mason jar ring. Once egg is set, remove ring, flip, and sprinkle grated cheese overtop.
  3. While egg cooks, assemble bagel with smeared avocado slices, fresh cilantro, arugula and bacon slices.
  4. Once egg is cooked to desired hardness remove from skillet and add to bagel assembly.
  5. Melt more butter over low/medium heat and fry sandwich until the bagel/bread becomes toasted and crispy.
  6. Write a letter to your local Einstein’s informing them that their breakfast sandwich has nothing on yours.