Recipe filter: eggs baked in (but not baked eggs)

December 18, 2019 11:51 AM

For allergy reasons, I need to eat food with egg baked in twice (or more) a week. So foods like cakes, cookies, breads are okay, but baked eggs, quiche, etc are not. (Egg pasta is also okay). However, I don’t have a sweet tooth and would prefer things that are more savory. I also avoid dairy but can substitute vegetable oil shortening and non-dairy milk if needed. What can I make?

Links to specific recipes are helpful but not required. Thanks!

posted by robertthebruce to Food & Drink (24 answers total)

Can you have nuts? On the package of Bob's Red Mill almond flour they have a simple recipe for almond-flour pancakes that includes eggs. We make it with about half the banana they call for, and the pancakes are non-sweet, good with salty butter or peanut butter.
posted by LobsterMitten at 11:58 AM on December 18, 2019 [1 favorite]

Custardy popovers taste quite a bit like Yorkshire puddings (not sweet at all) and could be used as a savory bake. I would serve them with any kind of soupy meal in place of a bun.
posted by Sweetchrysanthemum at 12:04 PM on December 18, 2019 [5 favorites]

challah. the more eggs the better, up to 3-4 in a loaf.
posted by fingersandtoes at 12:04 PM on December 18, 2019 [3 favorites]

You can do a thing with baked potatoes where you scoop out the filling, mix with some egg and milk/sour cream/something similar and seasoning and then bake again inside the skins. Is that "baked in" enough?
posted by stillnocturnal at 12:12 PM on December 18, 2019

Muffins and breads can be made savoury and normally this will use eggs.
posted by koahiatamadl at 12:21 PM on December 18, 2019 [2 favorites]

Carbonara seems like it might do.

I also once had a roommate who would basically do the same treatment with rice - whisk up n eggs then let them be cooked off heat by stirring them thoroughly into volcanically hot freshly cooked rice. The rice gets glossy and delicious. Other additions are possible.
posted by janell at 12:22 PM on December 18, 2019 [2 favorites]

Cornbread!
posted by quince at 12:30 PM on December 18, 2019 [1 favorite]

Savory crêpes are delicious. I looked for a recipe online to link, and they all had milk in them. But I like making them with sparkly water instead, or beer, or cider. I never use a recipe, just mix flour, eggs, liquid, salt to a consistency that works, let rest for 15 minutes, bake in a non-stick frying pan. The first one always goes wrong, don't worry.
It's funny your post came up now, because I was thinking of making them tomorrow, with a mushroom filling.
Panettone is a sweet bread, but am also not a lover of sweets, and I love panettone. You can toast it and eat it with ham or cheese on top.
posted by mumimor at 12:50 PM on December 18, 2019

I've been meaning to try this (savory) rosemary almond bread.

Not exactly savory (though not overly sweet), but wanted to give you another way to think about this: baked oatmeal has eggs and also makes a super convenient make-ahead breakfast. Just use the non-dairy milk of your choice. I like this recipe (I leave out the brown sugar, sometimes adding a mashed banana if I do want it sweeter) for pumpkin baked oatmeal.

This cheddar, beer, and mustard pull-apart bread looks tasty. You could replace the cheddar with nutritional yeast and the butter with a non-dairy variety.
posted by CiaoMela at 1:00 PM on December 18, 2019

Can you eat tuna and/or salmon patties that use eggs as a binder? They're easy to put together.
posted by Dolley at 1:15 PM on December 18, 2019

Response by poster: Thanks for the suggestions, please keep them coming! Unfortunately, I must also avoid peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Fish is okay.
posted by robertthebruce at 2:11 PM on December 18, 2019

Is strata too much like quiche? If it's on the allowed list, and I were working with your limitations, I'd add some crumbled cooked sausage, maybe some sauteed veggies (sun-dried tomatoes would be good too) and if cheese isn't completely off the table, a sprinkling of cheese on top.
posted by dogmom at 2:42 PM on December 18, 2019

Savory muffins - specifically, pizza muffins! Example - note that I have not tried that specific recipe. I add lots of veggies and pizza seasoning to mine.
posted by Ms Vegetable at 2:51 PM on December 18, 2019

Here is a delicious savory cake recipe, and really it's a template - you can replace the tomatoes with ANYTHING that appeals to you, just pre-cook or par-cook anything that's prone to giving off a lot of water or needing a lot of high heat, so maybe half-roast butternut squash chunks or broccoli or cauliflower florets, quick-broil or blanch asparagus or green beans, cook and drain spinach, saute mushrooms, etc.

I think it would also enjoy a dusting of crumbled goat cheese over the top (which is something I do to my fritattas, similar principle.
posted by Lyn Never at 2:52 PM on December 18, 2019

This recipe for perfect gougères just turned up on the Guardian. If you can't have cheese, make them without and fill them with something delicious. Maybe a dairy-free salmon mousse? Or guacamole? Or vegan samosa filling?
posted by mumimor at 3:02 PM on December 18, 2019 [1 favorite]

Came in to suggest Brazilian cheese bread, then realized, oh yeah cheese. It looks like there are cheeseless versions with potato and nutritional yeast. You may have to sort of cobble your own version together though, I couldn't find one that used 2 eggs and no cheese in the same recipe.
You can roll the dough into little balls, freeze it on cookie sheets and store them in plastic bags in the freezer. It's easy to just grab whatever you need out of the freezer and bake them.
If you haven't had them before they are very easy to make and oddly addictive.
posted by BoscosMom at 3:36 PM on December 18, 2019 [1 favorite]

Yes, savory cakes are the way to go! Here’s another recipe that gives you the basic cake and instructions. You can vary the fillings: diced ham and chopped olives are the classic, but you can also toss in chopped sun dried tomatoes, diced asparagus, figs and pancetta, I could go on. Specially good in cubes, speared with toothpicks, and eaten along a chilled rosé.
posted by Liesl at 4:40 PM on December 18, 2019

Bread pudding. Stale bread, torn up. A mix of egg and a bit of liquid, traditionally milk, but water, soy milk, etc. Is fine.
Sweet - add some sugar and cinnamon, bake. Maybe top with a sweet glaze, often with bourbon.
Savory (often called strata) - add asparagus or other veg, mushrooms are tasty, seasoned salt, other herbs of your choice, maybe top with cheese, bake.
The proportions after loose, I like it based until well set.

You can make very eggy muffins, they're tasty, also cornbread accommodates extra eggs.
posted by theora55 at 4:58 PM on December 18, 2019

Custardy popovers...could be used as a savory bake.

One important thing missed in that recipe is to heat the buttered muffin tin first and then pour the cold batter into it. This is something my daughter will always eat, though I could never serve her a fried egg.
posted by klausman at 9:14 PM on December 18, 2019

Savory Dutch Baby?
posted by fyrebelley at 10:47 PM on December 18, 2019

We have an egg allergy in the house, too, and make something with baked egg once a week. Our allergist said the flour:egg ratio should be at most 1 cup:1 egg, and stressed that the eggs really needed to be distributed in a matrix and baked for a good amount of time (at least 30 mins, so no pancakes or cookies).

For Thanksgiving we got kind of crazy and made the Bon Appetit's Best stuffing recipe, which uses 1 pound of bread and 2 eggs. It's not flour, but bread that allows a good soak is basically the same idea. It was tolerated quite well and was deliciously savory. You might want to dial back on the sage if it's not your thing.
posted by stripesandplaid at 3:41 AM on December 19, 2019

I'll add that we have to avoid strata because the bread:egg ratio is too low (I've seen recipes that are usually <1 lb of bread and 9 eggs). That might not work for you, but you can certainly dial back the eggs and dial up the milk/milk substitute.
posted by stripesandplaid at 3:43 AM on December 19, 2019

I wish I'd seen this yesterday, but baked oatmeal is a great breakfast item -- you can make it as sweet as you want and throw whatever in. Just heat up a slice in the morning and douse in yogurt.
posted by Mrs. Rattery at 4:10 AM on December 19, 2019

Bran and oat muffins. Plenty of recipes to choose from. The first Morning Glory Muffin recipe I came across had too much egg, but was close enough to encourage research into muffin recipies.

The hamburger buns ( https://www.breadworld.com/recipes/ sans herbs ) I make have 1 egg and 3 1/4 cups of flour. If that's not enough egg, I'm sure two eggs and a little less milk would work fine. I use a bread machine dough cycle for convenience. Bread machines are actually pretty cheap. If you are going to cook something a lot, the cost of special equipment may seem reasonable whether bread machine, stand mixer, or food processor.
posted by SemiSalt at 5:49 AM on December 19, 2019