Eggs in Purgatory • Eggs Poached in Tomato Sauce • Uova in Purgatorio

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast adds a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

Add a little bit of olive oil to a skillet.

Add chopped onions and sauté until golden.

Add diced tomatoes to the skillet.

Add salt and fresh basil, breaking the basil into pieces.

Let the mixture cook for 5 minutes.

Create wells in the sauce and crack eggs into each well.

Add more black pepper on top of the eggs.

Cover and let it cook for another 5 minutes.

Turn off the heat under the pan and serve the eggs on a plate with Italian bread.

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