Classic NYC Style Bacon, Egg and Cheese Sandwich

I first moved to NYC when I was 18 years old back in 2006 and the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich was one of the first things that I ever ate. My local spot next to my subway station would make you one for only $2.75 back then. It was always a dependable and cheap meal that you could get early morning or late night. It’s a simple sandwich, but it’s a good one!
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Joey
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Classic NYC Style Bacon, Egg and Cheese
Ingredients
Method
- Lay your bacon in a cold skillet and bring it up to medium heat, slowly rendering the bacon’s fat as you go. Flip after about 5 minutes and continue cooking for another 10ish minutes, flipping every few minutes until the bacon is fully and evenly cooked. Lay your bacon on a plate lined with paper towel and set aside for later.
- Clean out your skillet and heat over medium heat. Add in your butter and mix around until melted and foamy. Crack your eggs in the pan and, using the edge/tip of a spatula, make small cuts into each of the eggs, from top to bottom. Season with salt and pepper and let cook for a minute or two. Flip the egg mixture and make 2 stacks, each with 2 eggs. Cut the heat, place a slice of cheese on each of the stacks, cover and move to assembly. Note: If you have a smaller pan or smaller range burner, consider doing this in two batches of 2 eggs each.
- To assemble your sandwiches, cut your rolls in half and stack your eggs with cheese on top of each, followed by 2 slices of bacon each. Break the bacon in half to layer more evenly. Cut in half and enjoy immediately. Note: You can toast your roll a bit if you like but I wouldn’t toast it too much, you want a nice and soft bite. Also feel free to add pickled jalapeños or hot sauce for a kick)
Nutrition
Notes
- If you can’t find a kaiser roll, any hard roll with a soft center will work great.
- Spice it up with some pickled jalapeños or hot sauce.
- Salt and Pepper is generally a good way to go, some like it with ketchup as well!
- For a dairy free option, remove the cheese or use a plant based alternative.
- Try and find a bacon that is not pumped with a wet brine. Look out for sodium erythorbate and for ascorbate in the ingredients.
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Tzatziki and Feta Egg Salad Sandwiches and Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Bring 1 inch of water to a boil in a 3qt saucepan over high heat. Add your eggs in and cover, letting cook for 10 minutes. Prep a large bowl full of water and ice, leaving some space to add in the eggs to cool after they cook.
- While your eggs are cooking, place your sliced cucumbers in a fine mesh strainer set over a bowl and season them with salt. Toss everything around and let sit for later.
- Once eggs are done cooking, add them to your bowl with ice water and let them cool for a minute. Remove them one by one, peeling them as you go.
- In a large mixing bowl, roughly mix together your eggs, Greek yogurt, Feta cheese, marinated cucumbers, dill, garlic, olive oil and lemon juice. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Note: You can use a large serving fork to mash everything up. Add more avocado along with an extra drizzle of olive oil if needed. You can make this egg salad very chunky or more on the smoother side depending on how well you smash and mix everything together.
- To assemble sandwiches: Layer a generous stack of cucumber slices on one slice of bread and season with salt. Top with a generous portion of egg salad along with an extra squeeze of lemon juice an a sprinkle of salt. Close the sandwich with another slice of bread, cut in half diagonally and enjoy! Note: When cutting, use a sharp bread knife and cut gently and in a sawing motion to help keep the sandwich intact. Alternatively, you can wrap the sandwich in parchment paper or cling wrap and then cut it.
Nutrition
Notes
- Choose your own adventure: You can make a sandwich with this egg salad or lettuce wraps using layers of butter lettuce leaves. You can also use romaine spears for a bit more of a bitter crunch.
- I avoid toasting bread with egg salad and always choose a fluffy and soft bread. The reason for this is that it helps to hold everything together so the egg salad isn’t pushed out of the sandwich.
- You can sub out the Persian cucumbers for an English cucumber. If you do so, I’d remove the seeds with a small spoon to help reduce water and concentrate flavor.
- I’m using a 10 minute steamed egg using a steaming insert and a sauce pan with about an inch of water. This boil is basically firmly set but also not chalks at all. This is important because this will enable to egg salad to last for days in the fridge without going bad. Alternatively, you can make this with an 8 minute egg, which will be delicious, but won’t keep as well.
- This recipe will keep for 4 or 5 days in the fridge.
