For an ultra savory breakfast treat, try topping toasted rustic bread with Sherried mushrooms and eggs. This Spanish style eggs and toast breakfast with mushrooms comes together easily for a feel-special breakfast experience.
This recipe was first published May, 2011 and updated December, 2020 with new photos.
About This Recipe and Why It Works
My Sunday mornings are reserved for spending time in the kitchen to serve up a tasty breakfast. An over easy egg is more than likely to make an appearance.
This feel special eggs and toast breakfast with mushrooms was inspired for one I found over at Food and Wine and it’s been bookmarked for quite sometime as a “must try”.
The dish starts off with a slice of chewy toasted rustic bread. It’s topped with a mixture of mushrooms and shallots, which have been caramelized in olive oil and sherry.
Finished with a fried egg, it’s a savory treat that makes you feel like you’re dining in a fancy restaurant right in your own kitchen.
Mushrooms for breakfast combined with sherry and shallots is deep, earthy, elegant and pungently delightful.
The rustic bread makes a wonderful base sopping up the rich juices from the mushroom mixture.
And with just a few ingredients, it comes together pretty quickly and with little fuss.
Verdict? We loved the combination.
Let’s take a look.
Ingredients To Make This Recipe
- Dry Sherry: I love cooking with Sherry. Sherry is a fortified wine with a sweet aroma and nutty flavor. It hails from Spain. It pairs very well with the flavor of mushrooms for this Spanish Breakfast food inspired treat.
- Portabello Mushrooms: With a delicate texture and earthy taste, once sauteed, they take on a buttery nutty flavor.
- Shallots: I like shallots better than onions for this recipe. They offer a milder flavor with hints of garlic. Plus they cook quicker.
- Rustic Bread: Either a loaf from the bakery section of your favorite bakery labeled “rustic”, or the “take and bake” rustic bread selections from the grocery store are a good choice for this recipe.
- Eggs: Grade AA large eggs. You’ll fry them to top those mushrooms on toast.
- Butter: This recipe calls for unsalted butter to fry the eggs.
Ingredient Substitutions and Swaps
- Sherry: Dry vermouth is always listed as a good substitution for sherry. However, with the delicate simple flavors of eggs and toast, I’d recommend substituting white wine for the sherry. It will produce a more delicate flavor than vermouth.
- Portabello Mushrooms: Plain white button mushrooms will work fine for this recipe. And remember, buying pre-sliced mushrooms will save you time.
- Shallots: If you don’t have or can’t find shallots, substitute a sweet onion, sliced as thin as you can slice it or diced. A sweet onion like Vidalia is a great choice here.
- Butter: I rarely use butter to fry eggs. I love my little non-stick skillet simply sprayed with PAM, a non-stick spray product. It fries eggs beautifully and saves on calories. Save that butter to make French Omelettes.
How To
- The recipe is straight forward. Starting with simply sauteeing sliced mushrooms in a bit of olive oil for about 4 minutes.
- Then add the diced shallots and cook until they’re soft. Another 3 minutes.
- Then season with dry Sherry, cooking for 1 minute to evaporate the alcohol.
- In the meantime, slice and toast the bread. You can either slice and toast the rustic bread in a toaster, or brush it with some olive oil and toast it in a 400 degree oven for a few minutes.
- In a separate non-stick skillet, fry the eggs until the eggs have reached that sunny-side up stage.
- To serve, place a slice of toast on a plate, top it with the mushroom mixture and then with a fried egg. Dig in.
Recipe for Sherried Portabello Mushrooms and Eggs and Toast
I hope you give this recipe for mushrooms and eggs on toast a try. And if you do, please come back and give the recipe a star rating and scroll down and leave a message about your experience with the recipe.
And if you have a recipe you like for mushrooms for breakfast, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.
And if you’re big breakfast fans like we are, don’t miss my Breakfast Category. You’ll find lots of sunny side up ideas including the most popular breakfast recipe on my site for Home Fried Potatoes with Ham.
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Eggs and Toast Breakfast With Mushrooms
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil plus more for brushing
- 3/4 pound portabello mushrooms baby bella, button or cremini, sliced 1/4 inch thick
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 medium shallot diced
- 1/4 cup dry sherry
- 4 slices rustic white bread 1/2 inch thick
- 1 Tablespoons unsalted butter save calories and spray a non-stick pan with PAM
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley fine chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°.
- Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add the oil. When the oil is shimmering, add the mushrooms and season with salt and pepper. Cover and cook over moderate heat, stirring a few times, until softened, 4 minutes.
- Add the shallot and cook, stirring occasionally, until the shallot is softened and the mushrooms are browned, about 3 minutes longer.
- Add the sherry and cook until almost evaporated, 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from the heat, cover and set aside.
- Arrange the bread slices on a large rimmed baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Bake for about 6 minutes, until toasted. Transfer the toasts to plates.
- In a large, nonstick skillet, melt the butter over moderate heat. Cook the eggs, sunny-side up, until the whites are firm and the yolks runny, about 5 minutes.
- Spoon the mushroom mixture onto the toasts and top with the fried eggs. Garnish with the parsley and serve.
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Eggs and Toast Breakfast with Mushrooms … It’s What’s for Sunday Breakfast.
I can see why you marked this as a must try. I’ll be trying this too, it looks delicious, although I could easily make this a weekday dinner. Sounds like a plan!
Well, I’ve just decided what I’m having for breakfast for the next year 😉
Mushrooms, booze, chewy bread, eggs . . . this is my idea of a great weekend breakfast!! This is nice enough to serve for a fancy little brunch. It looks delicious – and nice action shot! 😉
Gotta get those action shots in. And by the way, love your summary of the meal… shrooms, booze….
This is a perfect Sunday morning breakfast. You cooked your egg just the way I like it so it makes a little sauce for the toast. Come to think of it this is a great Tuesday morning breakfast as well.
Between the sherry in the mushrooms and that luscious yolk on top…I feel like I can almost taste this! And I’m liking it! Delicious.
Thanks Joanne. 🙂
That’s just wonderful looking. I love everything in it, sherry, mushroom, fired eggs. And together? Perfect.
Looks wonderful. I found your blog as I was cruising another and she mentioned you and your Tex-Mex recipes. Do you have a recipe index? I couldn’t find one. But I read alot of your blog and I like it and plan on returning. Keep up the good work for us food blog addicts out here!
I love the beautiful plates, the perfect backdrop! I might love the recipe more however…anything with sherry, mushrooms and a perfectly cooked egg is a winner in my book! Looks fabulous!
Might be over-kill, but i’m thinking a dollop of ricotta with maybe a lemon juice on top of the egg. I’m stuck in a ricotta rut right now … and it’s in my head that a teaspoon on top of a fried egg goes perfectly with anything. Anything, I say, anything. Cheers!
I’m liking that idea. Have you ever tried to make your own ricotta? I’m going to give it a try one of these days. 🙂
Or lunch, or even dinner! This looks wonderful, Lea Ann. I’ve done something similar, but it had sour cream in it, making more of a sauce. I like the simpler version. Of course, the bread HAS to be rustic!
I’m liking that sour cream sauce idea Barbara. I agree, the rustic bread is the most important thing.
I’m back. Just wanted to say that since I subscribe to your blog by email, I can take a post like this one that I want to save and drop it in my recipe folder in email and I’ll have it for later.
As Ina would say, how easy is that?
Sam
Maybe that’s what I should have called my “No Recipe Required” posts. 🙂 Thanks Sam
When I see the word “sherry” in a recipe, I instantly know I’m going to love it. Not sure why – perhaps it brings such depth of flavor to a dish. I only have the plain old dry sherry too. Will definitely give this a try Lea Ann.
Sam
I bet the flavor is entirely different with their sweet sherry. I do have to try it one of these days.
Another great fried egg sandwich. FYI, we had fried egg, bacon, avocados sandiches this a.m. and I thought of you. Can’t wait to try this one.
Andrea, I’ve got a avocado baked egg thing that I’ve got up my sleeve.
Bookmarking this!!!!
Thanks Pam!
This sounds like a great combo, Lea Ann! I can almost taste it from your description…I’d eat this anytime of the day!
There is just something about a beautiful photo of an egg that makes me hungry! This does look so appetizing. Thanks for the recipe.
Thanks Karen. I’m always hungry, I’m going to start blaming it on a photo of an egg. 🙂
Mushrooms+Eggs+Anything=Yum!
I agree!
Mmmm… I love anything with mushrooms in it. The sherry is just an added incentive!
Liz, we really thought this was goo-ood
Looks delicious Lea Ann – I’d eat it in a heartbeat, except I believe the recipe is for TWO servings :-).
🙂 You don’t like to share?? Me either in this case.
Very beautiful. I can imagine Kate and Will having this in the morning!
Very possible Russ! Now you’ve got me craving a damn crumpet!