What do you get when you combine two favorite meal times, with two absolutely delicious meals? Yes, believe it or not, a Breakfast Portobello Mushroom Eggs Benny Pizza! Make tonight's dinner breakfast, or bring dinner to your breakfast table!
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For the Breakfast and Pizza lovers
I have been wanting to do this for a long time! My daughter Alexa loves breakfast and often says she is having breakfast for dinner. So when I was thinking of a recipe for Mushrooms Canada, this came to mind. Why not combine eggs benny with a pizza and use Portobello mushrooms. Guess what, it happened and here it is in all its luxurious splendor!
The four stars of Breakfast Portobello Mushroom Eggs Benny Pizza!
There are four stars to this breakfast pizza:
- Firstly the dough, one of Nicoletta's tried and true recipes that is so simple and rises wonderfully! If you want, you can use store-bought.
- Secondly the mushrooms. Beautiful meaty Portobello mushroom sautéed in garlic and onions and so much more elevating this wonderful earth gem to new heights.
- Thirdly the soft poached eggs. Soft, silky, and furthermore, when cut into it, a lovely slow stream of yolky goodness!
- Lastly, and above all not least, the hollandaise. A rich, buttery, wine-infused, dill herbed cream that just wins your heart over!
Some prep work first!
Before we assemble this wonderful Breakfast Portobello Mushroom Eggs Benny Pizza, a few things we need to prepare:
- To start off, if you're not using store-bought, the dough needs to be done. A simple adding of flour, yeast, water, salt, and olive oil in a food processor. Furthermore, some arm work, and in a few hours you have a dough ready to spread into a pizza.
- The next step is to get those mushrooms sautéed in a pan with hot olive oil, melted butter, onions, garlic, a few herbs, and red chili flakes. More so, for added flavor, a nice steam bath in some clear white Pinot Grigio wine!
- Many are scared of this, poaching eggs. I was one of those people but thanks to food TV I have found my poaching groove! Water and rice wine vinegar into a sauce pan. Bring it to boil, stir the water so it swirls, and then slowly crack the eggs in. End result, a wonderful soft poached egg for those that love that famous runny yolk!
- Lastly the sauce. Who doesn't love hollandaise. Well, maybe there are a few, who knows. As for me, I absolutely love it. I am not an expert at homemade hollandaise, but I am working on it. I used a pre-packaged hollandaise sauce. As you all know I can't just leave it like that, because I am Loreto, Mr. Creative by trade. I added white wine, fresh dill, lemon juice and a dusting of smoked paprika, just because!
Sealing the deal of this Breakfast Portobello Mushroom Eggs Benny Pizza!
Now that we have all our components ready, we can finally put this bad boy, or girl, together. I am all for equality, lol!
- Before we begin, we need to get that oven nice and hot so turn it on to 425 degrees F.
- Time to stretch that dough. Lightly oil a 12 inch pizza pan. I start by stretching the dough a little in my hands. Here comes a confession, I love the feeling of that soft dough in my hands and the way it just falls over my fist as I shape it into a round! Then into the center of the pizza pan and with my fingers I work it to the edges creating a nice voluptuous border.
- Spoon some hollandaise onto the dough and then layer the mushroom onion mixture evenly throughout!
- More so, we want something to bond the eggs to the mushrooms so on goes the lovingly torn fresh mozzarella and then the poached eggs.
- Lastly, some more of the hollandaise, hey not too much, we want to see those mushrooms and egg, with the pools of melted mozzarella! And into the hot oven you go!
I can't wait. It looks so good! Yummy! Maybe a little spoonful of hollandaise can help with that craving!!
Somebody hold my feet, I'm floating!
The aroma and look of this Breakfast Portobello Mushroom Eggs Benny Pizza has me in the clouds. I feel like I am dreaming. I better come down because I need to have a taste.
The buttery/wine smell of the hollandaise is fantastic and paired with the crust so golden, and more so, those lovely earthy aromatic mushrooms, tells me this is going to be a pure delight to eat. Oh wait, just a little more drizzle of hollandaise!
If thoughts could speak about this Breakfast Portobello Mushroom Eggs Benny Pizza!
I think I am hearing a lot of your thoughts right now. Cut into that egg! Cut into that egg! Okay I am going to cut into the EGG!
La crème de la crème!
How's that, all of you, did I pass? I think so! Look at that yolk running all over the melted cheese, mushroom and that crust. Truly excuse me I really need a bite right now! A moment of silence please.............
OMG! I don't know where to start. Okay, well, let's talk about that egg, it is luscious. The yolk rich, golden, and works so well with the crispy crust. Don't you just love when you bite into a slice and you hear that glorious crunch?
The hollandaise is perfect, sweet, acidic. The dill plays wonderfully to bring interest to the sauce, and that white wine, yum. More so, the Portobello mushroom is ultra juicy, so meaty and plump, perfect combo with the crust, the hollandaise and the egg! Sorry I have to go. Furthermore, this is too good not to give it my full undivided attention!
Spice your your breakfast or have a luxurious breakfast for dinner. Either way, this Breakfast Portobello Mushroom Eggs Benny Pizza is the way to go!
Enjoy!
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Breakfast Portobello mushroom eggs benny Pizza
What do you get when you combine two favorite meal times, with two absolutely delicious meals? Yes, believe it or not, a Breakfast Portobello Mushroom Eggs Benny Pizza! Make tonight's dinner breakfast, or bring dinner to your breakfast table!
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: serves 3 people 1x
Ingredients
Pizza dough:
1 pizza dough (store-bought or homemade)
Our homemade pizza dough recipe (makes three):
- 500 g farina 00 (or all-purpose, or better, a mix of the two)
- 300 ml water, at room temperature
- 5 g fresh yeast (2 g dried yeast)
- pinch of sugar
- 35 g extra virgin olive oil
- 10 g sea salt
Mushrooms:
- 2 Portobello mushroom washed, patted dry and sliced into nice profile pieces.
- 1 small yellow onion sliced
- 1 small purple onion sliced
- 2 whole cloves garlic peeled and pressed
- 2 Tbsp evo oil
- 1 pat butter
- ⅛ cup white wine
- Pinch of red chili flakes
- Pinch of oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
Hollandaise sauce:
- 1 package McCormick's Hollandaise sauce
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup water
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- splash white whine
- 1 ½ tablespoon fresh minced dill
- Pinch of paprika
Toppings:
- 3 soft poached eggs
- 1 large fresh mozzarella torn into pieces
Instructions
Pizza dough:
- In a small bowl, add half of the water, the fresh yeast, and a pinch of sugar. Let dissolve.
- In the bowl of a food processor, add the flour, the water/yeast mixture and start mixing on low. Add the salt, then slowly add the rest of the water, and keep mixing. Lastly, slowly, add the oil and mix until the dough pulls away from the sides of the food processor and starts to form a ball.
- Take it out of the food processor and put it onto a floured work surface. Knead it for a few minutes until smooth and elastic. Form it into a ball, cover it with a bowl and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- Once rested, give the dough a small fold: stretch the ends to form a rectangle, take the outer ends and fold into the center, turn it 90 degrees and do the same. Then, form it back into a ball. Transfer the ball of dough into a lightly oiled bowl, cover with cling wrap (better if you oil the plastic so it doesn't stick to the dough when it rises).
- Transfer the bowl to the oven (turned off) with the light on and let it rest for a few hours (2-3) until doubled in size.
- When the dough is ready, divide into 3 even pieces, take each piece, and shape it into a ball.
Stretching the dough:
- Oil a 12-inch round pizza pan and stretch dough until it fills the pan with a nice border. Repeat this with the other dough and set pizza crusts aside. These others you can make some of your other favorite pizzas, or else just place them in plastic wrap and into a freezer bag, and into the freezer. When you want to use them again, oil a bowl place the frozen ball in and cover with plastic and a dish towel. Let it proof for 4-5 hours in a warm place.
For the mushrooms:
- In a large sauté pan bring butter and oil to heat. Throw in pressed garlic and onions and sauté for a couple minutes. Season with salt, pepper and paprika.
- Add in sliced Portobello mushrooms, dried oregano and sauté for about five minutes, tossing occasionally. Pour in white wine and continue cooking on medium heat until liquid has dissipated. Taste for seasoning and adjust if required.
- Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
For the hollandaise:
- In a medium sauce pan melt butter, sprinkle in McCormick's hollandaise powder mix and a take off heat. Blend with a whisk then add the water, lemon juice, splash of white wine, dill, and paprika. Whisk again until well incorporated.
- Place back on medium heat and simmer until it thickens, take off heat and set aside.
- If it is too thick just add more water and whisk.
Assembling the pizza:
- Spoon some of the hollandaise sauce onto the pizza dough and spread it around leaving the border.
- Arrange the mushroom and onions on top of the sauce making sure to discard the garlic.
- Place the torn mozzarella on top evenly. Top with the three soft poached eggs, and drizzle more hollandaise on top.
- Place pizza on middle rack of oven and cook for 12-15 minutes, or until mozzarella is melted.
- Take out of oven, place on a cutting board. Slice and serve!
Notes
I used the pre-packaged hollandaise, however if you have your own hollandaise recipe by all means go for it!
You can use any of your favorite mushrooms.
If you made our pizza dough recipe and only using one dough, freeze the other two balls, separately, well wrapped in plastic wrap.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: pizza
- Method: stovetop/baked
- Cuisine: fusion
Keywords: pizza, eggs benny, hollandaise sauce, homemade, Portobello mushrooms, dill, white wine, breakfast, dinner
I love baking and kneading dough because it takes me to a happy place in my soul.
Ramya says
Sorry just saw this now will be making this soon can i use vegan butter / hollandaise sauce and vegan mozzarella as am dairy free i love pizza and mushrooms sooooooooooo much do you guys have hollandaise sauce on your website so i can make it myself perfect for my brunch in the mornings as am in Singapore will dm you if i make this and let you know how it goes Thanks Ramya
Hi Ramya, sorry we do not have the hollandaise recipe on on our blog, however, if you search vegan hollandaise I am sure you will find a great recipe! Thank you so much for commenting! Have a great day!
Cheers!