red eye gravy oatmeal with fried egg & chorizo
The unintentional honk.
Is there anything worse?
One single, accidental push against the steering wheel and within seconds you have sixteen sets of eyeballs intensely staring at you with rage. Every single person sitting within your car’s radius thinks you honked at them……only, you didn’t.
You immediately begin apologizing through weird gestures that no one will understand because your car doesn’t come with subtitles. The more you throw up your hands and slowly say, “I’mmmmm…..soooooooorrrryyyyy….I maaaaaaadeeee a misssssstakkkkke” is when folks start to get real concerned and continue to stare.
The gestures continue thinking to yourself that someone has been here before and knows the unintentional honk sign language. Finally, the light turns green, folks turn away, press on the gas, and your Oscar performance is now a distant memory. You think to yourself, “MOTHER TRUCKER as you gather yourself. Next time, I’ll just stare back.”
So, to cope with your unintentional honk this Monday morning, I’ve made a savory, delicious breakfast. There are zero hand gestures involved so you can put those away. All you need is some egg, oatmeal, chorizo, and tomato juice. For those of you not familiar with the red eye gravy, it’s your usual gravy suspects with the addition of tomato juice and coffee if you like.
Pour the gravy over some chorizo oatmeal and slap an egg on it, boom! Breakfast of road warrior champions.
Red Eye Gravy Oatmeal with Fried Egg & Chorizo
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 lb ground chorizo
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 teaspoon prepared coffee
1/2 cup tomato juice
2 large eggs, fried
1 cup old fashioned oats
1.5 cups water
Chives, garnish
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Preheat a skillet to medium heat. Add the oil and chorizo. Saute chorizo until cooked through about five minutes and set aside. Next, preheat a small saucepan to medium heat. Melt butter, add flour, and whisk for about a minute. Pour the tomato juice and coffee into the saucepan and whisk until thickened like gravy, about 3 to 4 minutes.
In a medium saucepan, bring water to a boil. Add the oats with a pinch of salt. Reduce heat to a simmer, stirring so the oatmeal doesn't stick. Remove from heat and divide between two bowls. Top the oatmeal with tomato gravy, chorizo, and fried egg. Garnish with chives!
adapted from Cooking Light Magazine
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Absolutely awesome, what a perfect breakfast!!
Thanks, Matt!
This is a great recipe! I can’t wait to try this for breakfast!
Thanks, Amanda! Definitely a current fav!
What a satisfying and comforting breakfast! Will definitely have to try out this recipe with a gluten-free flour! xo
Oooooohhhh….that’s a great idea Phoebe. I may need to try that myself!
OK after looking at this breakfast and the one that I had this morning with you it’s time to make my own fried egg bowl breakfast.
Your breakfast was off the chizzarts! Missssssss you!
Yum! I also imagine this would also go quite well with a nasty hangover….
HA! Exactly. xoxo
i think i died and went to heaven!
Thanks, Cheryl!
This might be the best breakfast ever! Nom nom nom 🙂
Ooooh I am not familiar with red-eye gravy, but it sounds amazing!! And savoury oatmeal with egg and chorizo?!?! Must have.
LOL about the horn – I’ve done that so many times and when I’m parked up just trying to be lazy and carry stuff from the passenger seat over my lap!!
Hi! I’m a new follower and… wow, this looks really good, only… I have never known redeye gravy to have tomato sauce in it? I mean, it still looks **great** but where did the tomato come from? Just curious… I’m a southerner and LOVE redeye gravy with biscuits and fried eggs (it’s the best and the bomb at 3am after a long night out, at least that’s what I recall from my misspent youth!) but maybe I just discriminate between redeye gravy and tomato gravy? Who knows!
I’m tickled to try a new savory oatmeal breakfast, though! Kudos!
Hi Sunny and welcome! The way I understand it, red-eye gravy is made with bacon grease and coffee. This recipe is just a lightened up version instead of using whole milk, I used tomato juice. I can see where that would be confusing! Let me know if you have any other questions! So glad you stopped by! xoxo
Hee hee! I wasn’t going to mention the lack of bacon grease, because that’s oh so yesterday. 🙂 It does still sound yummy enough to try!
But what if I’m so energized after eating this that I accidentally honk at ALL THE PEOPLE. Hmmm….worth the risk.
Has anyone actually made this? tried it? Liked it?
I would love to try this, but before I wash 4 different pans used making this recipe, for a meal that fits in one mug or bowl? I’d like to hear from someone who actually made it.
FYI:
I’m a southern grandma. Traditional redeye gravy comes from cooking a country ham steak in its own fat in a skillet until browned, then removing the ham and deglazing the pan with coffee. It’s as thin as water and damned good eats, zero carbs and not a lot of fat (if you trim fat on your steak and don’t add butter at the end like some do). Served with grits traditionally.
So oatmeal instead of grits? Might work.