Recipe: Italian Buffalo Breakfast Burger
All the classic Italian flavour pairings in this delicious Italian Buffalo Breakfast Burger
Italian-inspired vegetarian burger with parmesan fried aubergine slices, fresh tomatoes dripped with zingy lemon juice and salt, creamy milky buffalo mozzarella and a perfectly crispy fried egg all wonderfully slathered with a caper-basil mayo. Breakfast, brunch or lunch, it’s now yours to enjoy.
Italian Buffalo Breakfast Burger
Ingredients
- 1 burger bun
- Butter at room temperature
- 1 egg
- Oil for frying
- 2 slices tomato
- Squeeze of lemon juice and sea salt
- 1/2 small aubergine sliced lengthways into 1/2 cm thickness
- 75 g mozzarella
- 2 Tbsp grated Parmesan
- 1 Tbsp capers chopped
- 60 ml mayonnaise
- 1 Tbsp chopped basil leaves
Instructions
- Combine mayonnaise, capers and chopped basil leaves.
- Squeeze a little lemon over tomato slices and sprinkle with salt.
- Heat a frying pan with oil. Brush each slice of aubergine with hot sauce and sprinkle with salt. Fry until golden brown on each side. When the first side is ready, turn aubergine slices over and sprinkle each slice with 1 tablespoon of parmesan cheese. Before removing, turn Aubergine over one last time to crispy fry the parmesan cheese. Remove from pan and set aside.
- Fry egg sunny side up until crispy around the edges. Sprinkle with salt.
- Toast insides of brioche bun then brush with butter
- Spread caper-basil-mayo evenly on each inside brioche bun.
- Layer parmesan aubergine, mozzarella, tomatoes and last of all fried egg.
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