Bacon & Egg Breakfast Cups
Summary
Ready in 30 minutes, this easy, bite-sized breakfast is a great way to give you energy all day with its spinach and sun dried tomato base. The crispy bacon perfectly compliments the runny egg yolk, and is only enhanced by the baked feta topping the whole thing. It’s a low effort, high reward breakfast that’s perfect for a weekend or weekday!
Even better, is how affordable this breakfast is! We went through and did a price breakdown based on our local grocery store in USD:
Sun-Dried Tomato: $4.99/8.5oz = $1.17
Feta: $6.99/16oz = $0.87
Garlic Oil(homemade) = $0.02
Bacon: $7.49/lb = $2.50
Brown Eggs: $2.07/18 = $0.70
Spinach: $2.00/bunch = $1.00
Total Cost: $6.26
Cost per Serving: $1.04
Bacon & Egg Breakfast Cups
Simone Peironnet | 7/20/2021
- prep time: 10 minutes
- cook time: 25 minutes
- total time: 35 minutes
Servings: 6
Ingredients:
- 6 Eggs
- 4 Slices Thick-Cut Bacon
- 1 Small Handful Spinach, washed and destemmed
- 1/4 Cup Sun Dried Tomatoes
- 2oz Feta
- 1 Tbsp Garlic Chili Oil
- Black Pepper
- Chives, for garnish
Special Equipment: Muffin Tray (link),
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 375°F/190°C.
- Spray or grease your muffin tins. Take your bacon slices and line your first 4 muffin tins. Cut the excess bacon off so that there is no overlap. If there is overlap, the bacon will be too chewy and won’t cook correctly. Using your bacon off-cuts, line the remaining 2 muffin tins.
- Pop your bacon-lined muffin tray into the oven for 5 minutes, or until the fat is just rendering.
- Bake your skillet for 40 minutes, then broil on High for 2 minutes.
- Remove your bacon from the oven and put a thin layer of feta in each muffin tin. Once lined with feta, de-stem your spinach and layer on top of feta. Layer sun dried tomatoes on top of spinach. Crack an egg in each muffin tin. Top with remaining feta. Crack black pepper over each breakfast cup.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until egg white is set. If you shake the muffin tray, your yolk should not wiggle much.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before removing from tins. I recommend running a toothpick around the bacon and the tin of each breakfast cup to help with easy removal.
- Top with garlic chili oil and chives. Serve hot and enjoy!
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