After this filling meal of eggs, mushrooms, and tomatoes cooked in bacon and butter, you could take on anything. In the skillet, Irish soda bread slices are grilled and provided on the side.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
| Yield: | 2 servings |
Ingredients
- 6 thick slices bacon
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 4 eggs
- 2 small tomatoes, sliced
- 1 ½ cups whole mushrooms
- 4 slices prepared soda bread
Instructions
- Lay the bacon slices in a single layer in a large skillet. Fry over medium heat until it begins to get tinged with brown. Fry on both sides. Remove from pan, but save grease.
- Melt butter in skillet. Crack eggs into pan, being careful not to break yolks. Place tomato slices, mushrooms, and bread in pan. Fry gently, stirring mushrooms and tomatoes occasionally. Keep everything separate. Turn bread over to brown on both sides.
- When egg whites are set, but yolks are still runny, dish half of everything onto each of 2 warmed plates, and serve immediately.
- Start your day off the Irish way! You’ll never want cold cereal again. To be really authentic, buy back bacon–it’s much meatier than the belly bacon Americans eat. And it’s absolutely essential that you serve this breakfast with sweet, milky tea.
- Try one of these recipes for
- or soda farls to fry up and serve on the side.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 724 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 54 g |
| Cholesterol | 459 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 35 g |
| Saturated Fat | 17 g |
| Sodium | 1431 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 42 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Didn’t make any toast today. Eggs over easy instead of sunny side up.
I loved the mushrooms for breakfast but there is a lot of grease in this meal. It might be ok at night but to much to start the day. Regular toast and fresh tomato might be better.
I make this all the time. The only thing I do differently is not cook the tomatoes. I have them raw. The sauteed mushrooms make the dish!! There is an English grocery store near me that also sells Irish rashers and sausage. Very good but regular thick bacon is fine too!
Wrong kind of bacon, no potato bread, no black pudding. This is American bacon and eggs with tomato and mushroom.
Nice change to the morning meal. Very easy to prepare. I will be adding this meal to regular dishes.
The Irish do not put milk in their tea. Only the English do. The Irish drink a dark sweet tea, sometimes spiked with a shot of Irish Whiskey in the tea pot. But never milk.
I had to use thick sliced bacon. As an Irish man, ( woman), it brought me back to the old days. Thank you!
Love it. No mushroom for me but so filling. Great White Irish recipe.
This was a hit, made it two days in a row as I had two sets of house guests celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. I made the Irresistible Irish Soda bread from this site to go with it. I kept it wrapped in the fridge and it is still tasty a week later.
I made it and my husband loved it! Almost forgot the eggs but that was a quick fix at the end! Delicious!!
The recipe looked delicious, so no changes were made. Best breakfast I have ever made Thanks so much.
No changes made to it. It was very good. We ate it as a dinner & it was very filling!
I loved this breakfast and so did everyone else. It was not only great but, a lot less fattening and carbs as compared to biscuits and gravy, grits, and potatoes! Just one slice of bread through!
El oh el at all these try hards in the comments. It’s a breakfast. Stop trying to humble brag about your vacation in Ireland.
Make sure you buy thick cut good quality bacon, even if you hand cut the bacon. Plus you can freshen this up by using fresh cut tomatoes versus canned. Toasting the Irish bread adds a nice crisp to the bread. A breakfast like this is a great way to start your day because it keeps you from snacking.
What…where are the potatoes? Good start, but we skip the mushrooms and have potatoes with a little onion instead.
It’s not traditional until you add baked beans. Just plain tomato sauce beans no bits of ham and onion
I’ve died and gone to Irish heaven. I didn’t have mushrooms, but wouldn’t have eaten them anyway. Frying everything in one pan was way too much fun!
American bacon is no match to an Irish rasher and missing to many ingridents
My whole family liked it when I made it for my whole family.
A traditional Irish breakfast always includes beans, which are similar to US baked beans, but not as sweet. It should also include black sausage, and possibly white sausage.