Breakfast & lunch

Low-Carb Full English

Name: Low-Carb Full English
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 sausages, 90% meat or more (about 230g); 4 rashers of bacon; 4 eggs; 150g mushrooms, halved; 2 tomatoes (about 170g), halved; 1 tbsp butter (about 15g) or a little olive oil; Salt and pepper, to taste

The weekend fry-up, minus the toast, beans and hash browns. You won't miss them.

Serves 2Prep 5 minCook 20 min

7gcarbs
per serving

About 7g of carbs per serving. Everything in the list. Add a slice of toast and it's about 17g more. How we worked it out

You'll need

4 sausages, 90% meat or more (about 230g)
4 rashers of bacon
4 eggs
150g mushrooms, halved
2 tomatoes (about 170g), halved
1 tbsp butter (about 15g) or a little olive oil
Salt and pepper, to taste

Method

Put the sausages in a large frying pan on a medium heat with no oil. Cook for about 15 minutes, turning often, until browned all over.
After 5 minutes, add the bacon to the pan and cook for 3 to 4 minutes each side until crisp.
Push everything to one side. Add the mushrooms and tomatoes, cut side down, and cook for 5 minutes, turning the mushrooms once.
Check the sausages are cooked through (see Food safety below), then put everything on warm plates.
Wipe the pan, melt the butter on a medium heat and fry the eggs for 2 to 3 minutes, until the whites are set.
Season the eggs and tomatoes and serve straight away.

Tip

Keep the cooked bits warm on a plate in a low oven while you fry the eggs.

Swaps

Scrambled or poached eggs instead of fried.
Add a handful of spinach wilted in the pan at the end.

Storing it

Best eaten straight away. Leftover sausages and bacon keep in the fridge for up to 2 days.

Air fryer

Cook the sausages at 180°C for 6 minutes, add the bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes and cook for 6 to 8 minutes more, until the sausages are cooked through. Fry the eggs in a pan.

Air fryers vary, so check early the first time.

Food safety

Mince, burgers and sausages must be cooked all the way through. No pink in the middle, juices clear and steam rising when you cut one open. Burgers shouldn't be served pink at home.

How we worked out 7g of carbs

Ingredient	Weight	Per 100g	Carbs
Sausages, 90%+ meat Typical UK supermarket label	230g	3g	6.9g
Eggs UK government food tables (trace)	200g	0g	0.0g
Mushrooms UK government food tables	150g	0.3g	0.5g
Tomato UK government food tables	170g	3g	5.1g
Butter UK government food tables	15g	0.6g	0.1g
Total			12.5g
÷ 2 servings, rounded up			7g

Meat, fish, oil, salt, pepper and water have no carbs, so they're left out. How we count carbs.

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