American

Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich

Name: Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich
Total time: 12 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 english muffins; 4 large eggs; 4 cheddar slices; 2 tbsp butter; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Carol Jean @grandma_carolj

Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich is American home cooking, eaten at breakfast and dinner. 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.

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Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 english muffins
4 large eggs
4 cheddar slices
2 tbsp butter
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Split and toast the english muffins, then butter the cut sides.
Melt a little butter in a nonstick skillet over medium heat.
Crack in the eggs, break the yolks, season with salt and pepper, and cook until set, about 3 minutes, folding each into a neat square.
Lay a slice of cheddar over each egg to melt in the last minute.
Sandwich an egg between each muffin and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich

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

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Serve it with

A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Corn
  
  8 min
What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 min

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. Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Gluten	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
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: 320 kcal
Protein: 16 g
Carbs: 28 g
Fat: 16 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 520 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

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

When to cook it

Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich takes about 12 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.