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Butter Poached Eggs in Tomato Basil Sauce

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Dreaming of a hot cooked breakfast this weekend? Well, if eggs are part of that dream then you may want to try today's recipe 'Eggs BEALL' by the Beall Mansion (Alton, IL). This recipe tops a creamy rendition of poached eggs with a tangy and mildly sweet tomato basil sauce. Serve the eggs with breakfast potatoes and toast for a complete meal.

Eggs BEALL

Butter Poached Eggs in Tomato Basil Sauce

8 Servings (2 eggs per person)

For best results, make sauce night before so flavors will marry.

Sauce

4 oz. can tomato paste
1/4 cup water
2 tbl. sugar
1 tbl. basil
1 tsp. Italian seasoning

Combine all ingredients in sauce pan. Simmer for 30 minutes and refrigerate over night. Reheat next morning and adjust seasonings to taste.

Butter Poached Eggs

8 - ½ pats of butter
16 eggs
salt and pepper

Put pat of butter and dash of salt and pepper in the bottom of 8 ramekins. Place ramekins in large shallow pan(s) of simmering water. When butter is melted break 2 eggs into each ramekin. Cover and continue simmering until done.

Assemble

Invert eggs onto individual serving plates and surround with warmed Tomato Basil Sauce. Garnish eggs with fresh sprig of thyme.

Accompany with your favorite breakfast potatoes. We prefer our Mesquite Seasoned - Baked Potato Slices.

About The Beall Mansion

Once the private residence of Senator Edmond Beall - politician, industrialist, and financier - The Beall Mansion is an elegant Greater St Louis Lodging Accommodations for Pleasure and Business Travel, Weddings & Wedding Receptions, Corporate Retreats, Tours.