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Pan-fried Bacon with Poached Egg and Balsamic Tomatoes

Guess what? You don’t have to give up your bacon and eggs when you’re dieting – just slightly change the way you cook them. Poaching the eggs and dry-frying the bacon saves on fat and the whole dish tastes just as good. Choose good lean back bacon and avoid streaky.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sunflower and watercress share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pan-fried Bacon with Poached Egg and Balsamic Tomatoes

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

243Calories
13 gProtein
9 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Eggs1 large egg (50g)78
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sunflower + watercresstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Watercress + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sunflower + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Cherry tomato + watercresstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, white wine, vinegar, egg, watercress, pepper):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, white wine, vinegar, egg, watercress, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.