Creole Eggs Recipe

Ingredients for Creole Eggs Recipe

• 3 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 8 hard-cooked eggs
• 2 cups tomato pulp
• Salt, pepper, and paprika to taste
• 1 small chopped onion
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 blade mace
• 2 cloves
• 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
• Pinch of powdered thyme
• Slices of cooked ham
• Breadcrumbs

Instructions

1. Fry onion, pepper, and parsley in vegetable shortening until tender; add cloves, thyme, bay leaf, and mace and cook for three minutes.
2. Stir in flour and tomato pulp and bring to a boil while stirring. Strain.
3. Quarter the hard-cooked eggs and season with salt, pepper, and paprika.
4. Put layer of tomato sauce in a greased baking dish. Layer the ham, eggs, sauce, ham, and eggs, and a final layer of sauce.
5. Cover with breadcrumbs and dot with vegetable shortening.
6. Bake ten minutes in moderate oven.