Cooking Eggs In The Oven

This baked egg dish is a simple way to cook eggs in the oven. Using a little bit of tin foil, you have oven cook eggs ready to eat in under 10 minutes. You can do as many or as few eggs as you need depending on who is round for food.

This post is a very basic quick and simple process to cook some eggs in the oven. All it requires is a small amount of oil and some tin foil.

These eggs make a great accompaniment to a good breakfast or work really well on toasted homemade sourdough bread too.

Contents

• 🍳 Baked eggs in the oven?
• 🍲 Ingredients Required for oven eggs
• 🥕 Oven cooked eggs are the healthy way
• Instructions for oven cook eggs
• ⏲️ Cooking Poached Eggs In The Oven
• 🍽 Cooking eggs in an oven tray
• Cooking Eggs on the BBQ
• 🥘 Air Fryer Oven Eggs
• The Recipe
• Perfectly Paired With...
• Your Comments

🍳 Baked eggs in the oven?

So most people will usually cook an egg in a frying pan or poach in a pan of water. However if you already have the oven on for other food, did you know that you can bake an egg?

Making eggs in the oven has never been so easy so have an oven baked egg quick and easy with this handy tip.

🍲 Ingredients Required for oven eggs

There are only a few ingredients needed:

Eggs - Obviously! Free range are my preferred as they allow the chickens to get out and about in the farms and are not crammed into battery pens.

Spray oil - Previously I've used Fry light as my spray cooking oil of choice. However in recent weeks I've switched to spray Olive Oil. There do not seem to be as many ingredients or preservatives in it, so that feels a healthier choice to me.

Foil - A sheet of tin foil or a lined oven proof small dish with baking paper will be a good alternative. Essentially you need to put the raw egg into an appropriate sized dish that will not stick to the edge.

🥕 Oven cooked eggs are the healthy way

When cooking eggs in a frying pan in regular oil I find that they can be either too over done. Furthermore they are certainly not as healthy when fried in regular oil. This is a nice balance, it uses Olive Oil (but in a spray format so no where near as much) and is just an easy way to cook eggs.

Instructions for oven cook eggs

To start you will need to form a dish shape with foil, or line an oven proof dish with baking paper. You can make a dish out of foil by forming it over another bowl or smaller dish.

Spray the formed foil with the olive oil lightly and then crack the egg in to it. If you don't add the spray, or forget the baking paper then there is a risk of the egg sticking to the foil. It may even burn on so be careful here.

Pop the eggs in the oven at 200C degrees (or 180 if you have a fan oven) for just 8 minutes. They should be cooked through with a delicate centre.

⏲️ Cooking Poached Eggs In The Oven

It is possible to do cook poached eggs using your oven by replacing the oil with water. I'd recommend boiling the kettle initially and pouring about 1cm of water into the dish before putting the egg in.

The water needs to be hot so that the egg can start cooking as soon as it hits the water and goes in the oven.

🍽 Cooking eggs in an oven tray

It's possible to cook these eggs in a tray too so you don't need to make a tray. If you use a muffin tray or a Yorkshire pudding tray, these will work just as well. You will need to add a little oil into the bottom of these too.

Tips for a successful oven poached egg

Before putting the egg in the oven, have a try of water in the bottom of the oven already. This will help create steam in the oven which will cook the top of the egg. If you have a steam oven function, that will be even better if you use that.

Cooking Eggs on the BBQ

You could try doing these poached eggs on the BBQ. You will need to make sure that you have a BBQ with a closing lid as this will be needed to keep the heat in. These come in the form of:

• Kettle Style BBQ like the Weber Master Touch range
• Gas oven with lid BBQ like the Weber Spirit or Weber Genesis
• Griddle style will allow you to cook fried eggs. Check out the Weber slate griddle range too.

Cook over an indirect heat - check out my easy BBQ basics tips post to understand more about setting up different types of heat and temperatures.

Try and avoid causing any smoke as this will taint the flavour of the eggs. To avoid smoke, keep the fat away from the heat source. If you can stop and fat splashing then smoke will be reduced.

🥘 Air Fryer Oven Eggs

Eggs are possible to cook in the air fryer too. Timings are a little different compared to a regular convection oven. Rather than cooking for 8 minutes, drop the time down to 6 minutes and the temperature to about 180C. Make sure to check out my dedicated air fryer recipe category for more ideas.

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