Dinner · 12 min · Amounts not specified
Skillet eggs and greens
Wilt greens, nest eggs, cover.
The sheet · 2 plates · 12 min
easyWhy tonight. Wilt greens, nest eggs, cover.
What it needs
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- eggs
- kale
- garlic
- olive oil
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes.
Method
- Kale stripped from the stems and torn, then into a hot oiled pan with a pinch of salt.
- Leave it long enough that some of it crisps at the edges rather than only wilting — that is where the flavor is.
- Garlic in at the end, thirty seconds only.
- Wells, eggs, lid for ninety seconds. Lemon and chili over the top. Ten minutes, one pan, and it does not taste like a compromise.
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardTruly Foolproof Poached EggsJ. Kenji López-AltPoaching without the wispy strands. The trick is what happens before the egg reaches the water.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- kale
- Tough enough to need help.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
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