Eggs

Pastrami egg and cheese sandwich is a deli sandwich moved to breakfast. Pastrami, Swiss and soft scrambled eggs go into pretzel bread with red wine cabbage and horseradish cream cheese. The whole thing then gets griddled like a toastie. The recipe comes from Idiot Sandwich, Gordon Ramsay’s sandwich cookbook. Its argument is simple: pastrami usually …

Steak and egg sandwich, done properly. A rib eye rubbed with coffee and paprika, onions caramelised in its own fat, two basted eggs on garlic-buttered ciabatta. Makes two, takes half an hour. The recipe comes from Idiot Sandwich, Gordon Ramsay’s sandwich cookbook. The coffee is the bit that surprises people: two teaspoons of ground coffee …

Gordon Ramsay egg sandwich stacks soft folded eggs and crisped corned beef between two slices of milk bread. It makes two and takes twenty minutes, most of that on the eggs. Cornflour is the trick, and it comes from the diners of Hong Kong. Two teaspoons slaked in water go into the beaten eggs, holding …

Gordon Ramsay’s fried egg is cooked in oil and butter, basted until the whites are crispy and the yolk stays runny. The technique comes from Secrets and takes about 3 minutes for a hen’s egg. In his TikTok, Ramsay calls frying an egg “quite an art.” He turns off the gas before the egg is …

Gordon Ramsay’s scrambled eggs are six eggs cracked into a cold pan with diced butter, stirred on and off the heat until soft curds form. Never whisked, never seasoned early, finished with crème fraîche and chives. The recipe comes from Make It Easy and takes about 5 minutes. Ramsay says he learned to make scrambled …

Gordon Ramsay’s boiled eggs with anchovy soldiers is a soft-boiled egg served with sourdough toast spread with rich homemade anchovy butter, ready in under 10 minutes. The recipe comes from Ultimate Home Cooking and the eggs cook for exactly four and a half minutes. In the YouTube video, Ramsay calls a boiled egg “something that’s …

Gordon Ramsay’s mushroom omelette is a golden, puffed fold of wild mushrooms, Gruyère and parsley, finished under the grill in 10 minutes. The mushrooms go in first so they colour and lose their water before the eggs touch the pan. The recipe is from Bread Street Kitchen, where Ramsay writes “try to use fresh wild …

Gordon Ramsay’s omelette is a soft, creamy three-egg fold with butter, olive oil and Gruyère, ready in under 5 minutes. The outside is pale golden while the centre stays rich and barely set. I make this at least twice a week because nothing else comes close. In Gordon Ramsay’s Secrets, he gives one strict rule: …