Scrambled eggs with cream cheese, smoked salmon, and sorrel

Name: Scrambled eggs with cream cheese, smoked salmon, and sorrel
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Makes 2 servings
Ingredients: Salt and freshly ground black pepper; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 5 eggs; 1½ tablespoons butter; ½ cup shredded sorrel; Minced chives for garnish; 3 ounces smoked salmon, cut into ½-inch dice; 4 ounces cream cheese, cut into ½-inch dice

Preparation info

Makes
2
servings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
10 min

Appears in

Simple to Spectacular

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 2000

About

You can substitute spinach for the sorrel here, although it will not “melt” as sorrel does (and of course will taste different too). The cream cheese gains an especially lovely texture in this dish.

Ingredients

5 eggs
1½ tablespoons butter
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Brunch
Breakfast

Method

Combine the eggs, butter, and salt and pepper to taste in a saucepan or skillet, preferably one with sloping sides. Turn the heat to medium-high and begin to beat the egg mixture with a whisk, stirring almost constantly but not too fast; you do not want it to become foamy.
After the butter melts, the mixture will begin to thicken, and then to lump up in small curd