Alló, alló, alló... how are you? I hope you're good? Guess what we're having here at Ndudu tales today...
Well if you read the title, you 'guessed' right! Drum roll... Dry fried sunny side up!
Resounding applause... lol
In case you're not sure what a sunny side up is, let me try and explain.
This is a picture of sunny side up eggs and toast that I downloaded from Google images
A sunny side up is an egg that is often deep fried in low heated oil (or preferred fat). The egg is broken into the oil and it spreads on its own. Then a ladle is used to gather some of this oil and continuously used to pour the oil over the exposed part of the egg over and over again. This is done till the surface is cooked and if you like your yolk well done and not runny, you'd have to keep doing it for a few more minutes to ensure so. Never turn a sunny side, never. Otherwise, your nice warm Sun (yolk) will look like it's broken hearted and your pretty white cloud (egg white) will be ready to cry. No, never turn a Sunnyside or it'll end up being anything but a Sunnyside
My friend, Sne, taught me how to make a sunnyside.
I loved it! And even loved it when I overheated the oil and got a witchlike looking Sunnyside... lol. Check out this Instagram post to see what I'm referring to. Good character for a horror movie, no? Lol... I mean it doesn't look as good as a proper fried Sunnyside but the extra crisp and oil added to it's fascinating taste.
However, most days, I don't like the fact that the egg seems to drip of oil. To reduce this, I would often wrap it in tissue as much as possible after frying it so it would absorb a good quantity of oil on the surface of the egg.
BUT, but... even that couldn't help me thinking if there was some other way. If there was truly some other way to get my pretty Sun and cloud on my Sunnyside but not cook it in a huge amount of oil...
Introducing a Convo I had with some friends after I discovered how to achieve this...
Now permit me to interject here: I love the word discover. It kinda makes me feel I've found a pot of gold. It doesn't mean other people haven't found a pot of gold themselves or even found the other end of my pot of gold. It just means I have found it almost without much external influence (if you don't count God, lol) and it always sends a thrill down my spine. Even better, when I find out that my discovery already existed, especially in cooking, my days, don't I feel like a genius!
Loololll
Now back to the narration... where was I? Oh yes, the Convo...
Please note that these are excepts from a real Whatsapp chat and individual names and numbers have been concealed to protect privacy. The individuals are colour coded so you can follow the convo in the same vein as knowing their names. Lastly, do forgive the messy colouring, I'm still getting used to my photo editor and may get better with time... lolI... All the same, do enjoy...
Well if you read the title, you 'guessed' right! Drum roll... Dry fried sunny side up!
Resounding applause... lol
In case you're not sure what a sunny side up is, let me try and explain.
A sunny side up is an egg that is often deep fried in low heated oil (or preferred fat). The egg is broken into the oil and it spreads on its own. Then a ladle is used to gather some of this oil and continuously used to pour the oil over the exposed part of the egg over and over again. This is done till the surface is cooked and if you like your yolk well done and not runny, you'd have to keep doing it for a few more minutes to ensure so. Never turn a sunny side, never. Otherwise, your nice warm Sun (yolk) will look like it's broken hearted and your pretty white cloud (egg white) will be ready to cry. No, never turn a Sunnyside or it'll end up being anything but a Sunnyside
My friend, Sne, taught me how to make a sunnyside.
Sne and I
I loved it! And even loved it when I overheated the oil and got a witchlike looking Sunnyside... lol. Check out this Instagram post to see what I'm referring to. Good character for a horror movie, no? Lol... I mean it doesn't look as good as a proper fried Sunnyside but the extra crisp and oil added to it's fascinating taste.
However, most days, I don't like the fact that the egg seems to drip of oil. To reduce this, I would often wrap it in tissue as much as possible after frying it so it would absorb a good quantity of oil on the surface of the egg.
BUT, but... even that couldn't help me thinking if there was some other way. If there was truly some other way to get my pretty Sun and cloud on my Sunnyside but not cook it in a huge amount of oil...
Introducing a Convo I had with some friends after I discovered how to achieve this...
Now permit me to interject here: I love the word discover. It kinda makes me feel I've found a pot of gold. It doesn't mean other people haven't found a pot of gold themselves or even found the other end of my pot of gold. It just means I have found it almost without much external influence (if you don't count God, lol) and it always sends a thrill down my spine. Even better, when I find out that my discovery already existed, especially in cooking, my days, don't I feel like a genius!
Loololll
Now back to the narration... where was I? Oh yes, the Convo...
Please note that these are excepts from a real Whatsapp chat and individual names and numbers have been concealed to protect privacy. The individuals are colour coded so you can follow the convo in the same vein as knowing their names. Lastly, do forgive the messy colouring, I'm still getting used to my photo editor and may get better with time... lolI... All the same, do enjoy...
A summary of the inside joke here, the green-coded lady went on a particular egg frying spree after her discovery of frying unbeaten eggs heavily laced with tomato gravy at my house about 10years ago. She got weary of it quickly and has never been able to have fried unbeaten eggs since then.
A few days after the above convo, our yellow-coded group member tried out the dry fried sunny side up... to my utmost delight...
So this is how we made our sunny side up without it having to take a dip in lots of fat. Though it's still a fried egg, you may think if it as the Sunnyside that got prepared on the wet beach and not in the middle of the fatty ocean. And if that doesn't help, just remember it that dry frying is often healthier than deep frying. Nice!!
So once again, with lots of love from Ndudu tales, we wish you all the best with your next cooking experience and hope you try out our dry fried sunny side up soon! And if you do, don't forget to share your comments below.
Till we meet again, have a wonderful food-loving experience, however you have it, as many times as you do!
Adios!!
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