Best morning-after breakfast

Valentine’s, much like Christmas, is a day to step it up, choose the appropriate gift and cook

up delicious food – anything less could be a potential disaster. To pull it off, you’ll need advance planning – you can’t just stroll into your favourite restaurant and expect a table, and those garage forecourt flowers won’t cut it.

Bearing this in mind, I’ve taken some of Jamie’s breakfast recipes and given them the Symmetry Breakfast treatment to get you cooking up a treat for your other half this coming Valentine’s morning.

BEST MORNING-AFTER BREAKFAST

Valentine’s, much like Christmas, is a day to step it up, choose the appropriate gift and cook up delicious food – anything less could be a potential disaster. To pull it off, you’ll need advance planning – you can’t just stroll into your favourite restaurant and expect a table, and those garage forecourt flowers won’t cut it.

Bearing this in mind, I’ve taken some of Jamie’s breakfast recipes and given them the Symmetry Breakfast treatment to get you cooking up a treat for your other half this coming Valentine’s morning.

BEST MORNING-AFTER BREAKFAST

Ingredients

• 2 medium potatoes , cut into 3cm chunks
• sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 150 g good-quality raw iberico chorizo
• 1 red pepper , deseeded and sliced into strips
• 1 large handful of ripe cherry tomatoes
• 6 large free-range eggs
• a few sprigs of fresh flat-leaf parsley , leaves picked and chopped
• crusty bread , to serve

Method

Parboil the potatoes in a pan of salted boiling water for 5 to 6 minutes, or until almost cooked through. Drain and leave to steam dry.

Cut the chorizo into 2cm chunks and place in a large non-stick ovenproof frying pan. Cook in the hot oven for a couple of minutes to render out the fat and give it a bit of colour. Carefully pull out the pan, give it a jiggle and add the sliced pepper. Return to the oven for 1 to 2 minutes, or until the pepper starts to soften. Add the potatoes and tomatoes to the pan and give it a good shake so that everything gets coated in all the lovely chorizo oil. Return to the oven for 2 to 3 minutes, or until everything is cooked through and nicely coloured.

Remove the pan from the oven and use the back of a spoon to make four wells in the mixture. Crack your eggs, one by one, into the wells. Season with salt and pepper, then return the pan to the oven for about 2 minutes (depending on how you like your eggs). Keep a close eye on the pan and pull it out as soon as the eggs are done to your liking. Scatter with chopped parsley, then take the pan to the table for everyone to tuck in. Serve with hunks of crusty bread.

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