From Moonstruck · 1987 · Reconstructed
Moonstruck Eggs
Serve when
Serve them the morning after the moon — Rose at the stove, frying eggs in bread while the household's romantic chaos assembles around the kitchen table.
In the movie
Theatrical
- ~00:22:15 Rose Castorini's Brooklyn kitchen: thick slices of Italian bread with a hole cut in the center, an egg fried inside each, topped with fried red peppers — breakfast served to Loretta with the day's hard questions.
Rose makes this while asking her daughter the movie's real question — why men chase women — and the dish became so identified with the film that food writers just call it "Moonstruck eggs" now. Egg-in-a-hole exists everywhere; the fried red peppers on top are the Castorini signature.
Ingredients
Method
- Cut a hole in the center of each bread slice with a glass — save the rounds.
- Fry the pepper strips in a little olive oil until soft and blistered; set aside.
- Melt the butter in the pan, lay in the bread (rounds too), and crack an egg into each hole.
- Fry until the underside is golden and the white is nearly set, flip carefully, and give it 30 seconds more — yolk still soft.
- Top with the fried peppers, season, and serve with the toasted rounds for dipping.