Top 10 egg recipes

Eggs: the most versatile of ingredients. We've rustled up ten recipes – both sweet and savoury – to showcase how magical they are.

There are some great tips on Lovefood for how to cook an egg simply – whether boiled, poached, or whisked up into an omelette. But if you're feeling more adventurous, crack on.

Egg parcels

A baked egg, nestled inside a cradle of pancetta and wrapped up in wilted garlicky spinach. The perfect breakfast for two, and very easy to make if you have a muffin tray. Toast some crusty sourdough bread and cut into soldiers for the perfect dipping material.

Rice with marinated soft-boiled eggs

A sophisticated egg dish from Alain Ducasse, which requires soaking soft-boiled eggs in a punchy marinade made from garlic, ginger, wasabi, soy sauce, and aromatic vinegar. Plop your marinated eggs on top of steamed rice with seaweed and flaked vegetables.

Scotch eggs

You can’t have a top 10 egg recipes round-up without scotch eggs. MasterChef Mat Follas makes his so simply, just with eight of his favourite sausages, five eggs, a little flour, and four slices of bread. That will give enough to serve four happy campers.

Huevos rancheros

Add a little Mexican spice to your eggs with dried chillies, paprika, and diced spicy chorizo. Huevos rancheors is ‘ranch-style eggs’, which sees the eggs cracked into a thick, tomato and chilli sauce and then baked on the hob. Serve with tortillas or crusty bread on the side.

Eggs with goat's cheese on ciabatta

This easy breakfast dish is great for a Saturday morning to set you up for a big day. Rich, runny yolks sit on ciabatta, with melted goat's cheese weighing down the whites. Scatter over a handful of walnut pieces, and a splash of parsley sauce makes the whole thing taste even fresher.

Dandelion and potato frittata

The most beautiful, elegant frittata we ever did see, Urvashi Roe picks her own edible flowers – chrysanthemums and dandelions – to make this fragrant brunch or supper. If you have fresh pansies or violas, you can use them too, as they’re also edible. Remember to wash flowers thoroughly first.

Salmon, egg and olive salad

Eggs are great in salads, and they're also a perfect complement to flaked salmon. Ticking all the boxes, this colourful plateful of food also incorporates green and black olives, crunchy green beans and freshly made pitta croutons. A good lunchbox meal to perk you up on a warm day at work.

Almond macaroons

Moist, coconutty beauties, made with ground almonds, egg whites, sugar, apple sauce, shredded coconut, candied orange peel, and a little flour. Macaroons are very low in fat, but very high in taste. This recipe only uses egg white, so you could use the yolks for…

Crème brûlée with cardamom

An Eric Lanlard original, made with vanilla bean paste and ground cardamom pods. Crème brûlées may sound tricky to make, but if you follow Eric’s method to a T you can’t go wrong – if you don’t have a mini blow torch, you can still caramelise the sugar topping by using the oven grill.  

Rooibos tea custard

You could also use your spare yolks in this velvety baked cream custard, which is infused with rooibos tea and vanilla bean, then topped with caramelised apples. Caramelise your apples (recipe author Reuben Riffel recommends using Golden Delicious apples) in a large knob of butter and caster sugar, and be generous with portion sizes.

You might also like

Slow scrambled eggs

Best turkey, quail, goose and pheasant egg producers

Smoked salmon omelette