German

Bauernfruehstueck (Farmer's Breakfast Potato and Egg Pan)

Name: Bauernfruehstueck (Farmer's Breakfast Potato and Egg Pan)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 1.5 lb waxy potato, peeled and diced; 6 eggs; 1 onion; 4 oz speck (smoked bacon), diced; 2 tbsp chives; 2 tbsp butter

Steffi @steffi_leipzig

Bauernfruehstueck (Farmer's Breakfast Potato and Egg Pan) is German home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb waxy potato, peeled and diced
6 eggs
1 onion
4 oz speck (smoked bacon), diced
2 tbsp chives
2 tbsp butter

How to cook it

Put the diced potato in a pot of salted water, bring to a boil, and cook for 12 minutes, until just tender, then drain and let cool; a day-old boiled potato works even better.
Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat and fry the potato with the chopped onion and Speck for 10 to 12 minutes, turning occasionally, until golden and a little crisp.
Whisk the eggs and pour them evenly over the potato mixture, then lower the heat and let them set undisturbed for 4 to 5 minutes, lifting the edges once or twice so the raw egg reaches the pan.
Scatter the chives over the top, cut into wedges straight from the pan, and serve; the one genuinely substantial German breakfast, and a leftovers dish by design.

Watch how to cook Bauernfruehstueck (Farmer's Breakfast Potato and Egg Pan)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Lieblings Essen: Bauernfrühstück wie bei Oma selber machen. Play the video

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Bauernfruehstueck (Farmer's Breakfast Potato and Egg Pan) carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Bauernfruehstueck (Farmer's Breakfast Potato and Egg Pan)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice)
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham)
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 540 kcal
Protein: 21 g
Carbs: 42 g
Fat: 32 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 550 mg
Saturated fat: 13 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Bauernfruehstueck (Farmer's Breakfast Potato and Egg Pan) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.