I'm always looking for tasty good things to prepare. Trying to do more fresh ingredient cooking. More scratch stuff. Well my boss has been eating this concoction for breakfast that just looks so tasty to me and apparently this concoction has been around forever. But it is new to me. It's called Joe's Special. Fixed it Saturday morning and well, it is my new
favorite breakfast food. And pretty healthy I would say. I made it with turkey. Very yummy and I suspect it will make for great leftovers. Leftovers another
favorite!
Joe's Special
• 1 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon butter
• Splash or two of Tabasco or other hot pepper sauce
• 1 pounds lean ground beef or ground turkey
• 1 medium onions, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
• 1/2 pound mushrooms, chopped
• 3/4 teaspoons salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon dry oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 3/4 to 1 pound fresh spinach, trimmed of stems and chopped, or one 10-ounce package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
• 6 large eggs, lightly beaten
• Freshly grated Parmesan cheese, as desired
(and who doesn't desire that?)
Preparation:
Crack the eggs into a small bowl and add the Tabasco, salt, oregano, nutmeg and pepper. Whisk just enough to combine. Set aside.
Warm the oil and butter in a large skillet over medium heat until the butter melts. Add the onion and sauté until soft but not beginning to brown, about 4 minutes. Add the ground beef (or turkey) and continue cooking until uniformly brown, breaking the meat into small pieces as it cooks. Add garlic. Stir in mushrooms and cook for about 2 minutes. Cover with the spinach, place a lid over the mixture, and cook for about 3 minutes, just until the spinach wilts. (If using frozen spinach, cook, covered, for 1 minute, just to take off its raw edge.)
Stir the spinach into the meat, cooking briefly to eliminate excess liquid if the mixture seems watery. Pour the egg mixture over all, stirring with a spatula from the bottom until the eggs begin to set. Remove from the heat and stir a few more times, as the eggs cook through from the residual heat. At this point add the freshly grated Parmesan cheese and combine into mixture. Also, top each serving with the Parmesan cheese. Serve and enjoy!
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| It's good, I'm telling you! |
