Weekend Broken-Yolk Fried Egg Sandwich -- Breakfast Recipes (2024)

Surprisingly, due to its incredible simplicity - its wonderful! That’s its beauty - its simplicity! And ease to make, even on a weekday. Didnt even have to toast the bread! Just butter, bread, mayo, and eggs!!!

Going back to the 50's and I have to admit this was one of my Dad's favorites and still is a fav of mine but break the yolk in the skillet (like someone else suggested) and put on a piece of fried bologna snipped around the edges so it doesn't curl then add a piece of cheese slide on toasted rye bread. My family and I still prefer a good St. Louis Rye!

The egg sandwich is my specialty. You need to jazz it up a little with a slice of cheese and a spoonful of pepper and onion relish (preferably Harry & David brand). Fry one egg with broken yolk. After turning add one teaspoonful of the relish and spread evenly over the egg then add the slice of cheese. Cover until the cheese has melted and then remove from skillet and place on your favorite bread with a generous slathering of mayo. I use whole wheat bread but a large sliced and toasted croissant is a great choice too.

Dave April 6, 2015

Fry the egg in bacon grease! Use a good American cheese and enjoy? Been doing that since the 60's

What is old news to some is a revelation to others. If you have already been doing this egg sandwich, no need to say so. Let those who haven't seen it before learn and enjoy! Personally, I'm going to give it a go and love the story of learning to make it in the fifth grade. My version has been to fry an egg, break the yolk once in the pan (If I haven't already done that getting it in there) flip it for just a sec and put on toasted, buttered bread with ketchup and bacon. Been doing that since the fourth grade. Ha!

My new favorite egg sandwiches were inspired by Starbuck's. We equally enjoy a spinach-eggwhite-pico de gallo-feta wrap and a Canadian ham-egg-mustard-gruyere ciabatta sandwich with the eggs cooked as Michael does above. In fact, that's how I usually serve "scrambled eggs". I don't like them all whisked together. I've never had an egg sandwich with mayo, so I'll give that a try soon. Thanks, Michael. I look forward to reading your book!

spot April 23, 2014

Try adding thinly sliced cucumbers to your sandwich, Michael! I have vague memories of having fried egg-mayo-cuke sandwiches in Taiwan when I was a child. I don't know if it was a figment of my imagination, but to this day, I still love that combination.

One of the things I inherited from my ex husband - his "recipe" for an egg sandwich. Broken yolk, like this, but with some Louisiana hot sauce and emmenthaler or jarlsberg melted on top, on toasted (preferable egg) bun, with mayo and romaine. So delish.

of course this is perfect food. and the mayo you have spot on. but dot ya like a little run in the yolk?

toasted bagel, cheese and bacon. nix the mayo.

we used a glass to cut a round hole in the slice of bread, drop in a fresh egg and fry in butter. Yummmmmmm

Wrong mayo. Needs either Duke's or Blue Plate.

By the way, this is a wonderful way to eat eggs on weekdays, too! And thanks for, finally, giving some love to an egg other than the ubiquitous runny yolk, or poached, or softly scrambled one. I've adored the broken yolk egg my whole life, and have always felt like the odd-one-out for preferring my eggs done this way. I must mention however that I like them even better when fried a skillet in which I've just fried up some outstanding bacon, and poured off the fat, and then scraped up the little crispy bits. Heaven! ;o)

Definitely just feels like an advertisem*nt for Hellman's. Don't you have to disclose that sort of thing?

This is my egg sandwich! This is excactly what you get when you ask for one at a Hong Kong - style cafe. There's no butter- it's vegetable oil, and it comes on thickly sliced, crustless untoasted white. I usually ask for luncheon meat on mine. Paired with a Milk Tea- that's always the first thing I get after I land in Hong Kong, at the Honalulu Cafe. If I'm feeling home sick, and making this at home in Toronto - there's always a dab of ( Oh ! The horror!) Miracle Whip! ( My made it that way...)

I’ve always made my fried eggs this way; as a young child, I thought that runny yolks – the options being “over easy” or “sunny side up” in our house – seemed so, well, "gross", to use the common vernacular. Yes, they do have a different taste. It’s easy to overcook them, however, so one must remain attentive.
I made one a broken yolk fried sandwich just last weekend. I put it on this bread, very thinly sliced:
http://food52.com/recipes/4022-buttermilk-oatmeal-bread one slice smeared with a sharp, coarse (whole seed) mustard, along with a half dozen razor-thin slivers of good salume and a couple tablespoons of grated asiago. (The egg always goes on the slice not spread with mustard, to get the buttery egg taste into the bread.) I put the sandwich on a panini press until a crispy medium brown, then ate it out on my deck, slowly, in awe of how something so simple can be so satisfying, no matter how many times one makes it. But I agree, too, that the white bread + mayo + broken yolk fried egg sandwich is a wonderful treat. ;o) P.S. I'm looking forward to getting your new book! Would appreciate data that I could take to my cardiologist, who takes a rather dim view of my enthusiasm (love affair, really) with eggs.

Huge egg fan and I love a simple preparation (for instance, the French regard for a perfect poached egg as serious cuisine speaks to me far more than any frou-frou Foam de Blahblah) ...but I have to agree that this piece feels a bit precious. This is precisely the egg sandwich - 'technique' and all - I've made since pre-history. My kids ate one en route to school countless times. So, I don't know...maybe presenting it as a revelation feels a bit twee. (But it is a fine egg sandwich!)

This has LONG been my favorite, quick fix sandwich. My variations are w/Duke's Mayo w/a bit of curry powder mixed in & maybe a slice of sharp cheddar over the egg as it is cooking. YUM!

Is this a sponsored post by hellman's? That jar seems to perfectly placed.

Umm, this is what every deli in NYC gives you if you order a fried egg sandwich with mayo on white. I love eggs every possible way, except this one. (Now the eggs with vinegar -- that's a great recipe!)