Portobello mushrooms baked with a fried egg inside, with roasted sweet cherry tomatoes and asparagus

Portobello mushrooms baked with a fried egg inside, with roasted sweet cherry tomatoes and asparagus
 
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Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • 2 large British Portobello mushrooms
  • 2 small eggs
  • 14 cherry tomatoes on the vine, split in half
  • 8 asparagus spears, ends snapped off. - save ends to make soup or stock
  • 2 tbsp olive oil or ghee or butter
  • 2 handfuls baby spinach or baby spinach and wild garlic
  • 1 tbsp chives, to finish
  • Optional 1 tsp harissa paste into the base of the mushrooms
Method
  1. Preheat the oven to 220C/Gas 7.
  2. Gently pull the mushroom stalks off the portobello mushrooms (keep them) and rub some olive oil and salt and pepper on the inside and outside of the mushrooms and their stalks as well as the cherry tomatoes. Place everything in a medium baking tray with mushrooms open side up and roast for 18 mins.
  3. Remove the tray from the oven and slice the asparagus lengthways so you end up with 16 spears and place in any gaps along with the spinach in any spare spaces in the tray, season with a little salt and pepper and tiny drizzle of oil.
  4. Finally with a little bowl nearby, crack one of your eggs and then gently tip the yolk into one of the mushrooms and gently drip in as much egg white as you can without overflowing the mushroom and any extra egg white, drop in the bowl, repeat with the other egg.
  5. Then carefully place the tray back in the oven (so you don’t tip any egg out the mushroom or break the yolk!) and bake for about 3- 4 mins, keep an eye on it after 2 mins, or so until the whites of the eggs have set, the yolks are still a little soft. Scatter over the chives to finish and serve.
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