Name: Patates me Avga (Potatoes with eggs)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Greek Cuisine
Ingredients: 4 potatoes, cut into ½ inch cubes; 1/4 cup olive oil; 4 eggs; Salt and freshly grated black pepper

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“Patates me avga” is a Greek dish that translates to “potatoes with eggs.” It is a very quick and easy hearty meal, with cubed fried potatoes and scrambled eggs, often enjoyed for breakfast or brunch.

The dish typically involves frying or sautéing the potatoes but recently I have also been using the air fryer to fry the potatoes and then finishing them in a frying pan to add the eggs.

Although this dish sounds like breakfast or brunch food, in Greece we eat it as a main dish with a salad.

Today my husband prepared this dish, together with a Greek Salad and fried halloumi cheese which was a very filling and satisfying meal, not to mention delicious.

I won’t be doing much cooking these days as yesterday when I was going to my painting lesson I slipped and fell in the street and I sprained my left ankle and I can’t do anything.

I am supposed to be lying in bed with my foot up high but I can’t stay in bed and I neither like watching TV anymore. So I am at the computer all day with my left foot on a chair with pillows underneath.

The only thing I can do at the moment since I have a lot of pictures taken from cooking various recipes, I can at least write them down, so it will keep me busy for at least a week.

Cypriot cuisine can be very simple many times and with a few ingredients apart from Patates me avga some other classic traditional Cypriot dishes are prepared the same way but using a few different ingredients and spices make a completely different meal.

There are a lot of recipes we love making with eggs and here are just a few examples, such as:

Agrelia me Avga (wild asparagus and eggs),

Manitaria me Avga (mushrooms and eggs),

Spanaki me Avga (spinach and eggs),

Ntomates me Avga (tomatoes and eggs, in Greece this is called Kagianas or strapatsada),

Loukanika me avga (sausages with eggs),

Pasto me avga (smoked pork with eggs),

Onions with eggs, courgettes with eggs,

Moloches me avga (mallows with eggs),

Wild greens (strouthkia) with eggs,

Agginares me avga (artichokes),

Chicken giblets with eggs etc.

A few of these recipes are included in my cookbook Mint, Cinnamon & Blossom Water, Flavours of Cyprus, Kopiaste!

Ingredients needed to make Patates me Avga:

Potatoes
Olive oil
Eggs
Salt and freshly grated black pepper

Directions:

Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes or wedges. The exact size is up to you, but smaller pieces will cook faster..
Fry them in hot olive oil until they are cooked.
Remove the potatoes and empty the hot olive oil in a metallic bowl.
Return the potatoes back in the frying pan with 1 tablespoon of the hot olive oil and add 4 eggs.
Season with salt and pepper and mix until the eggs are cooked.

Patates me Avga (Potatoes with eggs)

Yield: 4

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Patates me avga is a classic Greek dish that consists of fried potatoes sut into smaller pieces and scrambled eggs.

Ingredients

4 potatoes, cut into ½ inch cubes
1/4 cup olive oil
4 eggs
Salt and freshly grated black pepper

Instructions

Peel and cut the potatoes into very small cubes.
Fry them in hot olive oil until they are cooked.
Remove the potatoes and empty the hot olive oil in a metallic bowl.
Return the potatoes back in the frying pan with 1 tablespoon of the hot olive oil and add 4 eggs.
Season with salt and pepper and mix until the eggs are cooked.

Notes

The calories were calculated after the olive oil was removed, after frying the potatoes.

Nutrition Information

Yield 4 Serving Size 1
Amount Per Serving Calories 353Total Fat 19gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 14gCholesterol 186mgSodium 234mgCarbohydrates 37gFiber 4gSugar 2gProtein 11g

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