Steak and egg breakfast skillet

June 12, 2016 by Caroline's Cooking

Treat someone to this steak & egg breakfast skillet with sauteed radishes, carrots and radish green pesto - it's a delicious balance of flavors, & easy too.

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I'm not sure quite why, but when I read the theme for this week's Sunday Supper as being recipes that either are your dad's favorite or that your dad would like, I struggled to decide. It was deja vu from when I made pavlova for the mother's favorite-themed Sunday Supper a few weeks back.

The things that came into my head didn't help - my dad loves going to the game butcher to see what he can find, but we don't have one locally and the game I can find is more suited to wintery cooking.

I debated a tongue-in-cheek sausage roll recipe after the time he and I were home alone when I was a child and he somehow managed to mess up cooking ready-made sausage rolls for our dinner (he enjoys his food but isn't exactly a cook). I thought about what I had made when my parents visited a few months ago but much of it was things I have already shared.

In the end, I decided to go with the sort of thing I think he would like - a hearty, flavorful breakfast skillet with steak, egg, sautéed carrots and radishes and topped with some radish green pesto. It may be a mouthful of a name, but it's a delicious many mouthfuls of a dish. And why should the brunch tradition be reserved for moms (or 'mum' to us Brits)?

The inspiration for this breakfast skillet

This breakfast skillet is partly inspired by a couple of things I had recently involving radishes that pleasantly surprised me. When I was at a conference there were some roasted radishes served as part of brunch one day that were really tasty.

Then more recently, as I mentioned when I shared my own version on Friday, I had an appetizer locally that had a nice radish green pesto. Given I received radishes, with greens, in our most recent vegetable box it seemed like fate that I had to do something with them.

How it's made

I decided to sauté the radishes as I didn't really want to put the oven on for a smaller amount, especially this time of year, and the flavor is similar. I added in carrots for a hint of sweetness plus they're nice and colorful. It seemed only right to have steak in there since this is a meal for dads after all, and it does go really well with the vegetables anyway.

You can either cook the steak in the side of the pan or separately, then take it out to rest while you add in the egg. Slice up the steak, add it back on top then drizzle over a bit of the radish green pesto. The pesto has a slight sharpness to it that balances out the carrot's sweetness and goes well with everything else. Plus, it adds to the color of the dish too.

This steak and egg breakfast skillet is all pretty easy to make and is a delicious combination of colors and flavors, fit for any dad or anyone else you want to spoil with a delicious, hearty breakfast/brunch. Or just make it for yourself, as why not. Whoever eats it, they'll enjoy it and be back for more.

Try these other delicious brunch recipes:

Eggs Royale (smoked salmon eggs Benedict)
Bacon lobster omelette
Breakfast strata with bacon and date
Bubble and squeak (a kind of veggie cake of mashed potato, other veg and bacon)
Plus get many more breakfast and brunch recipes in the archives.

Treat someone to this steak & egg breakfast skillet with sauteed radishes, carrots and radish green pesto - it's a delicious balance of flavors, & easy too.

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