When in Dinner Doubt, Add an Egg

My grandmother made this for years..so comforting?

I’ve been eating this (and thinking about it!) all the time! Thank you for the recipe. :)
the one thing I’ve changed is that because the noodles can be kind of dry after cooking and the egg can tend to be not enough liquid, I stir some butter and garlic salt on the noodles before adding the egg!

Hi Jo!
I really wanted to love this and I am going to try it one more time. My initial attempt was a disaster. I failed to recognize that as much as my family loves garlic, this would have been better with less. One or two small to medium cloves crushed or sliced garlic and very lightly browned then removed from the oil.
I consider myself to be a very experienced home cook with a well developed palate. That being said, for inexperienced cooks and those of us with the occasional lapse in good cooking judgement, you might consider a slightly more detailed ingredient list.
Thanks Jo.

whaaaaat?! Why have I never heard of this?! It sounds amazing!!!

You can add a fried egg on anything and it will taste better. In Argentina, where I am from, you can request any food item you order in a restaurant “a caballo” (on horseback), and the kitchen will know to top your dish with a fried egg. People do this even on lunch sandwich orders. Lomitos a caballo, a steak sandwich with a fried egg, lettuce, and tomato, are an Argentine classic. The combination of steak, a runny yolk, and fresh bread is heavenly.

I think I am one of the few people who does not love eggs, looking at runny yolks makes me queasy. :)

I’ll have to try this the next time my husband goes out of town. (Eggs at dinner aren’t his thing.) I’ve recently been using dehydrated garlic. It works really well and a jar lasts for a long time.

Would love to see some low carb/low sugar recipes for those of us who don’t/can’t eat grain or sugar and need to keep a low carb kitchen!

‘Put an egg on it’ – much more widely applicable than ‘bird.’ But I count more than three ingredients!

this. sounds. fantastic. i’m newly married and always looking for new recipes to try (especially while not wanting to go over the top). thank you for sharing; can’t wait to try!

I LOVE this series. Thanks for a fantastic recipe idea!

This looks incredible. I have all these ingredients and may have to make this for dinner tonight!

I love this! Thank you.

We make so many variations of this meal, 1. pasta with Costco pesto, topped with a crispy fried egg and panko bread crumbs fried in olive oil, 2. pasta with pesto made with parsley and basil, walnuts and a spoon of tomato paste, topped with egg, 3. garlic fried in olive oil with lemon squeezed in, poured over pasta, topped with egg, finally, 4. pasta coated with cream and parmesan, topped with cherry tomatoes and green onions and garlic sauteed in butter, topped with egg and panko crispies.

I could eat some version of this dish every. single. night.