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TIP OF THE DAY: Truffled Scrambled Eggs

June 16, 2017 at 8:53 am · Filed under Cheese-Yogurt-Dairy, Condiments, Eggs, Recipes, Vegetables-Salads-Herbs

[1] If you have to ask, you can’t afford it: a bounty of white truffle shaved onto scrambled eggs (photo © George Guarino | Eataly | Chicago.

Truffled Scrambled Eggs
[2] The affordable version (photo © Saveur, along with their recipe to make perfect scrambled eggs).

For the wealthy gourmet, there are truffled scrambled eggs that consist of the richest, butteriest, farm-fresh eggs scrambled and topped with pricey truffle shavings.

You can pay a supplement of $100, $200 or more, depending on the amount of truffle. After all, for the 2016-2017 winter truffle harvest, white Alba truffles from Italy, considered the zenith of truffles, cost a small fortune:

The smallest size were $229.50/ounce, $3,672.00/pound.

Large truffles were $2,880 per ounce, $11,520 per pound.

Extra-large and colossal were even more!

Black Périgord truffles, our personal favorite from France, are a bargain by comparison:

Small Périgord truffles were $100/ounce, $1600 per pound, and up.

Large Périgord truffles were $805/ounce, $3220 per pound, and up.

If you’re drooling at the prospect but lacking in cash, you can feel better because fresh truffles won’t be back until November.

TRUFFLES FOR REGULAR FOLKS

We’ve gotten around our challenged purse for years with the following work-arounds. Delicious scrambled eggs can be made with:

Truffle butter. You can buy it for less than $12 for a three-ounce tub. It provides the aroma of fresh truffles, and some of the their flavor.

Truffle oil. If you don’t want to cook your eggs in butter (but in our opinion, there’s no substitute for butter with scrambled eggs), Urbani white truffle oil is about $30 for 8.4 ounces. Black truffle oil, by comparison, is $18.75 for the same size.

Truffle salt. Replace your regular salt with truffle salt. It isn’t a huge impact, but every little bit helps if you’re using the butter or oil. We use Casina Rossa’s Italian Truffled Sea Salt from Italy. It’s $36.75 for 3.4 ounces. That’s a lot, but since you use a pinch at a time, it lasts a long time. You can split the jar with a fellow cook.

All prices are from Gourmet Food Store.

And of course, each of these products has uses beyond scrambled eggs.

GOT TRUFFLES?

If you’ve been saving a jar or can of truffle shavings, it’s time to put them to good use.Another variation of truffled scrambled eggs follows, courtesy of Maille mustard.

Ideally, you need to infuse the eggs the day before.

RECIPE: TRUFFLED SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH MUSTARD

Ingredients For 4 Servings

6 jumbo organic eggs

2.5 teaspoons Maille Mustard with Chablis white wine and black truffles

2 teaspoons black truffle shavings

1/2 cup sweet almond oil

2 teaspoons silvered almonds

2 teaspoons butter

3.5 tablespoon cream

Pinch salt

¼ teaspoon espelette chile powder*

Bread of choice (we like brioche)

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*Espelette, a.k.a. piment d’Espelette, is from the Basque area of France and Spain. Substitute Aleppo pepper if you can find it: It has the smoky sweetness that espelette brings to the table. Otherwise use cayenne, but the heat and flavor profiles are quite different. Cayenne is much hotter (30,000 to 50,000 SHU) so use less. It is much more neutral in taste, without the smokiness.

Preparation

1. BREAK the eggs into a large bowl at least 1 hour in advance, or overnight. Add the truffle shavings and mix gently. Place in the fridge in a tightly sealed container to infuse. The next day…

2. BEAT the eggs, seasoning them with a pinch of salt and the espelette, add the sweet almond oil and the mustard.

3. ROAST the almonds in an anti-adhesive frying pan until golden, then chop them. Melt the butter in a casserole dish. Add the eggs and cook slowly with a wooden spatula or spoon, so that the eggs do not stick to the pan. When the eggs are scrambled…

4. STOP the cooking with the liquid cream and add the slivered almonds.

5. SLICE the bread into fingers and toast in a non-stick pan with a drizzle of almond oil. Coat slightly with some mustard and sprinkle with black truffle shavings. (Note: We simply made toast, understanding that a short cut means shorter flavor.)

6. ASSEMBLE in the dishes of choice, with the toasted bread fingers.

MORE TRUFFLES

What Are Truffles

Types Of Truffles

D’Artagnan Truffle Butter

[3] The dyed black eggshell is dramatic, but we’re happy serving our truffled eggs on a plate, in a ramekin, or for fun, in a champagne coupe (photo © Maille).