Rich Cream Cheese Scrambled Eggs
photo by BecR2400
- Ready In:
- 16mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 8 large eggs
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, cut into cubes
- 1⁄3 cup chopped fresh basil (optional)
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Garnish
- fresh basil sprig
directions
- Whisk together first 4 ingredients.
- Melt butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat; add egg mixture, and cook, without stirring, until eggs begin to set on bottom. Sprinkle cream cheese cubes evenly over egg mixture; draw a spatula across bottom of skillet to form large curds.
- Cook until eggs are thickened but still moist. (Do not stir constantly.) Remove from heat. Stir in chopped basil before serving, if desired, and garnish, if desired.
- Note: To lighten, substitute 2 cups egg substitute for eggs and 3 ounces light cream cheese for 3 ounces regular cream cheese. Proceed as directed.
- Sausage-Egg Soft Tacos:.
- Prepare Cream Cheese Scrambled Eggs as directed, substituting 1 seeded and chopped jalapeño pepper for chopped basil. Sprinkle 6 (8-inch) flour tortillas evenly with 1 1/2 cups shredded colby-Jack cheese. Top one half of each tortilla evenly with Cream Cheese Scrambled Eggs and 1 (16-ounce) package cooked, drained, and crumbled ground pork sausage. Sprinkle evenly with 1/2 cup shredded colby-Jack cheese. Fold tortillas over filling. Serve with sour cream and salsa. Makes 6 servings. Prep: 20 min., Cook: 15 min.
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I threw this together for supper tonight, without seeing the recipe. For one (large) serve I melted a little butter in a skillet over medium heat and tossed in three free-range eggs, a couple of slurps of low-fat milk, around ten fresh basil leaves, a mini tub of lite cream cheese, one chopped vine-ripened tomato, sea salt & freshly ground black pepper, blended everything together and stirred from time to time until it was cooked to my liking. I had it on freshly buttered whole-grain toast. Delicious!
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Very delicious! I misplaced my old favorite recipe for cream cheese scrambled eggs, and am happy to find this one posted here on the zaar. Made a few changes: reduced the amount of milk by about half (I used cream), used only 6 eggs, and subbed chopped green onion for the basil (as that was what I had on hand---sauteed the green onion in butter to soften, then added the eggs). Served with buttered rye toast and breakfast links. I think my original recipe had diced cooked bacon added to the eggs. Thanks for a keeper. Becky
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Very delicious! I misplaced my old favorite recipe for cream cheese scrambled eggs, and am happy to find this one posted here on the zaar. Made a few changes: reduced the amount of milk by about half (I used cream), used only 6 eggs, and subbed chopped green onion for the basil (as that was what I had on hand---sauteed the green onion in butter to soften, then added the eggs). Served with buttered rye toast and breakfast links. I think my original recipe had diced cooked bacon added to the eggs. Thanks for a keeper. Becky
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