Eggs Benedict with Spam

Source: San Miguel Great Food Club

Ingredients for 8 servings:

• 8 slices cheese singles
• 8 slices white or whole wheat bread
• 1/4 cup butter
• 8 pcs eggs
• 1 can spam, sliced crosswise into 8

Hollandaise Sauce

• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 3 pcs egg yolks
• 1/2 cup butter cut into cubes
• 1/2 tsp salt

For the Hollandaise Sauce:
1 Place yolks and lemon juice in a double broiler. Beat with a whisk until well blended. Cook over hot (not boiling) water until lemon colored.
2 Add cubes of butter one at a time, while continually stirring the mixture.
3 Add salt just before removing mixture from heat. Keep warm.


1 Pan fry Spam slices over moderate heat, 1 minute per side. Set aside.
2 Poach eggs to desired doneness. Keep warm.
3 Pre-heat oven/ toaster (oven to 350 F)
4 To assemble, lightly spread butter on one side of each piece of bread. To with cheese singles and bake until bread is lightly toasted and cheese has melted.
5 Remove from heat then top with Spam slices and poached eggs.
6 Pour Hollandaise sauce on top and sprinkle with freshly ground pepper.



Tip: There are ready mix Hollandaise Sauce available in Supermarket if you want to skip the sauce preparation. Try MasterFoods Hollandaise Sauce.



I was inspired to do this for breakfast because of this book I just read a month ago by Sophie Kinsella about a top-notch lawyer who accidentally became a househelp. Knowing basically nothing on house chores especially in the kitchen, she was asked to prepare eggs benedict and she was like, "i cannot make bloody eggs benedict?!" Funny 'coz I didn't even know something like it exists until I read it there! Ignoramus moi! LOL


Darwin's Verdict: 3 stars

Comment: It's good but the Spam slice is salty.

My Verdict: I may have mastered the art of cooking eggs but poaching is an exemption. I just can't manage to make it form a perfect circle when I cook it in water! So what I did with my eggs here is I pan fry it in very small amount of oil and I didn't turn it over so I won't break the yolk.

Yummy but I agree with Darwin, the Spam is salty. The Hollandaise sauce though is a winner. This is a very healthy breakfast. Just garnish it with fruit slices on the sides before serving and enjoy!