What's the difference between egg muffins and egg omlette? No one knows until tried but once tried no one cares because there is no charge for awesomeness.
Dice all the ingredients up, halve or quarter the cherry tomatoes.
Mix all the vegetables except the tomatoes, in a bowl. Add a bit of salt too.
Fill the muffin forms up to ¾.
Divide the cherry tomatoes among the muffin forms.
Beat the eggs and add some more salt. Mix in the cream. It can be substituted with milk, water, or 2 more eggs. Obviously, it won't taste the same but it will still be lovely.
Pour the eggs into the vegetable filled muffin cups.
Sprinkle grated cheese if desired.
Place them into a 350°F / 180°C preheated oven and bake until all the muffins set, for 25 - 35 minutes. Muffins on the side in the muffin tray tend to set quicker while the ones on the inside takes longer time. Cut one of the inner ones to see if it's set properly.
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Dice up the bacon, pancetta or guanciale.
Fry them in a skillet on medium heat. Once they starting to get a color lower the heat and slowly render out all the fat. Depending on what cut we use, this can take 10 - 20 minutes. Once all the meat gets a golden brown color, remove them from the fat.
Place the diced onion into the hot fat. Alternatively cooking oil can be used too.
Saute on medium to high heat until the onion gets a translucent / glassy look.
Lower the heat to medium to low and caramelize the onions while stirring every now and then for about 15 - 20 minutes.
Once the onions get the desired golden brown color, add the sliced chives or scallion, garlic, red and green peppers, spinach and saute on high heat until the garlic gets fragrant for about 1 to 3 minutes. Once it is done, remove pan from the heat and let it cool a bit. Don't forget to take the garlic out if it's in one piece.
Beat eggs in a bowl. Mix in the cream. It can be substituted with milk, water, or 2 more eggs. Obviously, it won't taste the same but it will still be lovely.
Mix in the bacon, pancetta or guanciale and the onion vegetable mixture. Salt may not be necessary, depending on what kind of cured meat we use.
Ladle the mixture out into the muffin forms.
Sprinkle cheese on top if desired.
Place them into a 350°F / 180°C preheated oven and bake until all the muffins set, for 25 - 35 minutes. Muffins on the side in the muffin tray tend to set quicker while the ones on the inside takes longer time. Cut one of the inner ones to see if it's set properly.
Notes
Both recipes are for 12 muffins but unfortunately not all muffin forms are made equal. Fortunately, we can always crack up a couple of more eggs and fill the muffins molds if needed.