Barbara Taragna
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Breakfast Crostatas
Make delicious mini bread bowls from Pillsbury™ refrigerated French bread, then fill and bake with an irresistible breakfast combo: eggs, cheese and ham.
Breakfast Crostatas
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 40 min
- Ingredients 8
- Servings 4
Ingredients
- 1 can (11 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Original French Bread
- 1 1/2 teaspoons basil leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon rosemary leaves, crushed
- 1 1/2 cups diced ham or Canadian bacon
- 1 1/2 cups (6 oz) shredded Gouda cheese or Cheddar cheese
- 4 eggs
- Dash salt, if desired
- Dash ground black pepper
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Spray cookie sheet with Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray. Carefully cut loaf lengthwise and then cut each piece in half crosswise to get 4 equal pieces. Press each piece of dough into square on cookie sheet. Sprinkle dough squares with basil and rosemary. Top dough squares evenly with ham and cheese. Make small well in center of ham and cheese on each square.
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Step2To form crostatas, fold edges of dough up 1 inch over filling, making pleats and pressing dough firmly. Carefully crack open each egg and drop into well in each crostata. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
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Step3Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until bottoms of crostatas are golden brown and egg whites and yolks are firm, not runny.
Nutrition
500
Calories
23g
Total Fat
35g
Protein
38g
Total Carbohydrate
5g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 500
- Calories from Fat
- 210
- Total Fat
- 23g
- 36%
- Saturated Fat
- 11g
- 56%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 290mg
- 96%
- Sodium
- 1640mg
- 68%
- Potassium
- 310mg
- 9%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 38g
- 13%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 5g
- Protein
- 35g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 10%
- 10%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 35%
- 35%
- Iron
- 20%
- 20%
Exchanges:
2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 1 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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