Egg White and Brie… Fried… Things
It’s a Friday in Lent, and since I want to get into heaven, I can’t eat the flesh of a land animal. Since I don’t really count eggs as animal flesh, I invented this pathetic meal to prevent my starving to death. It turned out pretty tasty, so I’m posting the recipe to this food blog I forgot I had.
- White of one egg, beaten
- 2 tbsp brie, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 cup panko bread crumbs
- 1 cup canola oil
Heat the oil in a saucepan. While that’s happening, put the egg whites in one bowl and the bread crumbs in another. Since the desired result is a sort of bubble of poached egg whites with brie in the middle, the best way I could figure out to make that happen was to get a piece of brie on a spoon, dip it in the egg whites so that it’s coated, but also gather some extra egg whites in the spoon, and then pour the contents of the spoon into the panko. It’s pretty good about clinging to the egg whites, and they’re all gelatinous and weird anyway, so once you’ve coated the egg pretty good with panko, scoop the whole blob back up with the spoon and deposit it in the hot oil to fry. Repeat until you’ve used up all the chunks of brie. For me, it made about five croquette-sized cheesy egg spheres that taste like a really meh version of chicken cordon bleu. Which is fine by me, because I’ve got some sort of massive hangover/stomach flu that hasn’t let me keep anything down all day. Bon appetit!
Edit: For added vegetarian delight, these would probably be really good if you mix some pepper and basil into the egg and dip the fried things in some kind of marinara or tomato cream sauce, but I’m too close to death’s door for that kind of behavior right now. If you’re down with chowing on something that used to be alive, add some salt and pepper to the egg and pair some 1/2-in chunks of bacon with the brie, then dip that shit in maple syrup.
