Pan-Roasted Asparagus with Crispy Fried Egg & Herb-Roasted Potatoes

Day 145
A friend posted the asparagus & egg recipe on my Facebook timeline and I thought I would give it a try, because it looked pretty good.

Pan-Roasted Asparagus with Crispy Fried Egg 

& Herb-Roasted Potatoes

Pan-Roasted Asparagus with Crispy Fried Egg

Original recipe here
I followed the recipe pretty closely, but tripled the recipe and made way more of the breadcrumb mixture than I needed. I didn't use the parmesan, but it still made too much, and was still delicious. I'm not convinced it would have been better with parm.

Bread Crumb Mixture (Gremolata)

1 ½ tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
6 tbsp panko bread crumbs
2 tsp grated lemon zest
Pinch of hot red pepper flakes
Pinch of salt
6 tbsp chopped Italian parsley

Cook the oil and breadcrumbs until brown. Set aside in a bowl.

Browning breadcrumbs

Zest the lemon.

Lemon zest

When crumbs are cool, mix in all the other ingredients.

Gremolata

Asparagus

The asparagus was the easy part. Wash the asparagus. Actually, I soaked it in a vinegar/water solution for 10 minutes, then drained it.

Washed asparagus

Sauté the asparagus in olive oil for about 6 minutes, turning a couple times. I did mine in two batches because I cooked the whole package. It was on sale by the way, and I got all this asparagus for like $3.50.

Asparagus cooking in olive oil

Crispy Egg

I couldn't cook the egg the way the recipe said. I did the crispy side, but couldn't resist flipping it to cook the other side for at least 15 seconds until the white part was cooked. I also broke the yolk when I flipped it, so it doesn't look pretty, but it turned out perfectly cooked, for me.

Pan-roasted asparagus with fried egg

Herb-Roasted Potatoes

You all know by now how I feel about potatoes. They really make a meal complete, don't they? I felt like the asparagus/egg needed something else with it so naturally potatoes was my first idea. Herb-roasted ones were Laura's idea. I was just going to boil them.

Potatoes

Ingredients

5 potatoes
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp Italian seasoning
1 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp freshly-grated black pepper

Directions

I just chopped the potatoes, tossed them with oil and herbs, seasoned with salt and pepper and cooked them in the oven until they started to brown and were tender. I cooked them at 400 degrees F for about 35 minutes and they were perfect. I made too many, so we're probably having them again tomorrow. Maybe with pancakes.

Herb-roasted potatoes

Asparagus & egg with herb-roasted potatoes

Reviews/Comments

I would give this an 11 if I could. Amazing. So, thanks for posting, Deb! The lemony crumble was really good. We have lots left and I'm trying to figure out what else it would be good on or in. Pasta?

Laura: Good. Eight. (Laura had her asparagus sans oeuf) Laura also loved that hers was vegan.