Cheese Egg Toast
A crowd-pleasing vegetarian built around bread, cheddar cheese and chives — roughly 60 minutes start to finish, and rated medium to make. You'll find the full ingredient list (with a scaler to change the servings), 7 steps of method, substitutions, and ideas for what to serve alongside.
You'll mainly reach for grill / broiler and frying pan / skillet. At medium difficulty across 7 steps, it's manageable with a little attention. As written, it's meat-free.
What you'll need
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Pantry staples (you likely have these)
Diet: vegetarian — no meat or fish, based on every ingredient listed below.
Contains: Gluten Dairy Egg
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How to make it
- Toast the bread slices until golden and crisp, either in a toaster or under a hot grill, then keep them warm on a plate.
- Crack the eggs into a bowl, add the milk, a pinch of salt and a little black pepper, and whisk until evenly blended and slightly frothy.
- Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a non-stick frying pan over low to medium heat, then pour in the eggs.
- Stir the eggs gently and continuously with a spatula, folding them as they set, and cook until they are softly scrambled but no longer runny, which gives a safe and creamy curd.
- Scatter the grated cheddar over the warm eggs off the heat and stir for a few seconds so the residual warmth melts it into soft, gooey strands.
- Spread the remaining butter over the warm toast, then spoon the cheesy scrambled eggs generously on top.
- Finish with a final grind of black pepper and a sprinkle of chopped chives, and serve immediately while hot.
You'll use: Grill / broiler · Frying pan / skillet · Pan · Blender · Whisk
Ingredient substitutions
- Eggs
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce (baking) · 1 tbsp ground flax + 3 tbsp water per egg
- Butter
- olive oil (¾ the amount) · coconut oil · margarine
- Milk
- any unsweetened plant milk · ½ cup evaporated milk + ½ cup water
Tips & common questions
How long does Cheese Egg Toast take to make?
About 60 minutes from start to finish — an estimate based on the 7 steps and 8 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
What can I use instead of eggs?
Try ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce (baking). See the substitutions section above for more swaps.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes — use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Cheese Egg Toast vegetarian?
Its ingredients contain no meat, fish or shellfish, so it is suitable for vegetarians. Check any cheese for animal rennet if that matters to you.
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Adapted recipe — rewritten in our own wording from an open-licensed community cookbook, not yet independently kitchen-tested by Consomee. How we source, test & correct recipes.
Cheese Egg Toast is adapted by Consomee from the Wikibooks Cookbook, rewritten in our own wording and used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo: Egg and cheese breakfast sandwich.jpg by John Verive, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. We add the serving scaler, ingredient tools, timing and structure — how we source recipes.