Tuna and tomato scrambled eggs

This is an easy to prepare dish for breakfast or brunch. You can serve it with buttered bread or add bacon, sausages, fried tomatoes, celery and mushrooms as per an English breakfast.  I will start first with a basic plain scrambled eggs then go to adding other ingredients.

A reminder that it is best not to give eggs to children below 1 year and if there is a family history of asthma and allergies, to wait until the child is 2 years old. Also, it is best not to eat too much scrambled eggs because when you cook scrambled eggs, you break the yolks. Since the yolks contain most of the egg's cholesterol, breaking and scrambling them allows that cholesterol to be exposed to much more air and heat than other cooking techniques that leave the yolk intact. The air and heat can cause the cholesterol in the scrambled egg yolks to oxidize before you even have a chance to eat them, potentially contributing to atherosclerosis.

Ingredients for basic scrambled eggs

2 eggs per person

A little milk, salt and pepper

Break 2 eggs into a bowl.

Add the milk, salt and pepper.

For those who are allergic to milk, you can use water instead.

Beat up the mixture so that there is some air bubbles in it which will make the eggs fluffy

Melt a small knob of butter in a saucepan

Put in the mixture and stir until the mixture has set

The eggs has set nicely now.  

Stir it until the egg is slightly brown

Cooking in the microwave oven

Add the knob of butter into the mixture

Cover with a piece of kitchen towel to prevent splattering

After every 15 seconds, stir the mixture so that it will set nicely.

It should cook in about 2 minutes.

Someone enjoying his breakfast

Tuna and tomato scrambled eggs

Adding some other ingredients into the scrambled eggs makes it more interesting and nutritious. Some children don’t like eating tomatoes so I try ‘hiding’ it with other food which they can accept and tuna is one of their favourite.

Ingredients

1 can tuna in water

4 eggs

1 tomato

Remove the seeds from the tomato

Cut the tomato into small cubes

Throw away the water in the can and put the meat into a bowl

Break up the tuna with a fork

Break the eggs into a bowl.

Add the milk, salt and pepper

Whisk the eggs to get air into it

Melt a knob of butter in the pan

Pour the egg mixture into the pan and let it set a little

Put in the tuna and tomato

Stir it so that it is mixed thoroughly and does not become an omelette

Transfer to a serving dish

Using the scrambled eggs to make sandwiches

Halve a slice of bread (this is for 1 child)

Put the eggs on 1 half of the bread

Cover with the other half

Press down and cut into smaller pieces

Bigger children and adults may prefer to have a croissant sandwich with some cut lettuce