The Ultimate Spring Egg Sandwich

The Ultimate Spring Egg Sandwich
Francoise Villeneuve•

If you're a garlic fiend, ramp season is your friend. The wild-growing onion-garlic relative is hot stuff from March to about May every year. A few years ago, at my favorite D.C. Italian restaurant Bibiana, I had my first ramp pesto and it was killer — a fresher, more seasonal incarnation of a classic Genovese pesto. Now I'm hooked, and make it at home every year. I go through pints of the stuff every spring. As happens when your fridge is full of something, you slap the stuff on everything until it's gone, with varied results.

One morning, when I had a god-awful hangover, this sandwich was born. Eggs and bacon are the antidote to the previous night's excesses, and the ramp pesto gives the sandwich both garlic and heat. It has evolved each year, and mushrooms give it that extra umami kick that makes for the ultimate egg sandwich.

The Ultimate Spring Egg Sandwich
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Prep Time
20
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Cook Time
30
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Servings
1
The Ultimate Spring Egg Sandwich
Total time: 50 minutes
Ingredients
  • 2 bunches ramps
  • 1 - 2 cups Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
  • 1 cup pine nuts
  • 1 cup basil leaves
  • 1 cup olive oil
  • 1/2 lemon
  • 1 pretzel roll
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup button mushrooms
  • salt
  • 1/2 bunch ramps
  • 3 strips bacon
  • 1 egg
Directions
  1. In a blender or food processor, mix the ramp leaves, cheese, pine nuts, basil and olive oil until you achieve a coarse paste.
  2. Add the lemon juice, mix and taste.
  3. Adjust the seasoning as necessary with cheese for more salt, and set aside in the fridge in an airtight container.
  4. Put the roll on a serving plate.
  5. Heat half the olive oil in a sauté pan and sweat the mushrooms with salt until cooked.
  6. Add the ramp leaves and cook until they are wilted, then set aside the mixture.
  7. Clean your sauté pan then set it over a medium-high heat.
  8. Add the remaining oil to the pan and when it shimmers, add the egg and fry, seasoning with a pinch of salt.
  9. Smear 2 tablespoons of ramp pesto on your pretzel roll.
  10. Top with the bacon.
  11. Add the egg, and then top with the mushrooms and wilted ramps.
  12. Add the top of the bun and serve.
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