What Can I Make With Eggs and Cheese? 15 Real Recipes (No App Required)

Eggs plus cheese is the most-searched two-ingredient combination in our database. It’s the most-searched because it’s what almost every kitchen has on a Wednesday night. Here are 15 real recipes from the curated CookSnap library that use those two ingredients plus standard pantry staples (salt, pepper, oil, butter, herbs).

The five-minute group

1. Cheesy scrambled eggs. Low heat, butter, fold slowly, fold in cheddar at the very end so it just melts. The dish that proves technique outweighs ingredients.
2. Omelet with goat cheese. Three eggs whisked with a pinch of salt, hot pan, butter, swirl, fold over a tablespoon of goat cheese. Eat over the sink.
3. Cheese-and-egg breakfast taco. Charred corn tortilla, scrambled egg, sharp cheese, a hit of hot sauce.

The under-fifteen-minute group

1. Fluffy ricotta scrambled eggs. Fold ricotta in while the eggs are still wet. Texture changes completely.
2. Cheese soufflé omelet. Separate eggs, whip whites to soft peaks, fold back in, pour onto a buttered pan, finish under a broiler with cheese on top.
3. Eggs in cheese sauce on toast. Make a quick mornay (butter, flour, milk, cheese), poach eggs, plate over toast.
4. Cheese-stuffed Spanish omelet. Spanish omelet base (eggs, sliced potato) with cheese folded in the middle.

The fifteen-to-thirty-minute group

1. Frittata with whatever cheese you have. The dish that takes any cheese in any state. Make in a cast iron pan, finish under the broiler.
2. Cheese soufflé.Yes, you can. It’s 25 minutes and roughly impossible to ruin if you fold gently.
3. Cheesy baked eggs. Crack eggs into ramekins over a bed of cheese, bake at 375°F for 12 minutes.
4. Egg-and-cheese strata.Stale bread, eggs, milk, cheese, herbs — layered and baked. Great for using bread before it goes.
5. Mac and cheese with a cracked egg on top.Five-ingredient mac (pasta, butter, flour, milk, cheese) with an egg cracked into each bowl while it’s still hot enough to set the white.

The slow-and-satisfying group

1. Cheese quiche, the real version. Homemade shortcrust, blind-baked, egg-cream-cheese custard.
2. Italian-style baked rice and eggs.Leftover risotto patted into a baking dish, eggs cracked on top, cheese, baked until set.
3. Cheese soufflé pudding. Sweet variant if you have ricotta and an interest in dessert.

The pattern

Notice how few of these are recipes in the “food blog, ten-paragraph backstory” sense. Eggs and cheese are flexible ingredients; most of the recipe is technique. If you can scramble eggs slowly, make a soufflé base, and fold without panicking, you have a hundred possible dinners already.

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