Breakfast
Country ham with red-eye gravy
The gravy is black coffee poured into the pan the ham fried in, and nothing else — no flour, no cream, no sugar, and it has been made that way in the South for two hundred years.
1gnet carbs
24gfat
26gprotein
325kcal
Per serving20 minServes 2
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Ingredients
For the whole dish · serves 2
- Country ham slices8½ oz
- Butter1 oz
- Strong black coffee4 fl oz
- Black peppera hard grind
Method
6 steps · 20 minutes
- Do not salt anything in this. Country ham is dry-cured and salty enough to season the gravy on its own.
- Fry the slices in the butter over medium heat, 3 minutes a side, until the edges curl and the fat turns translucent.
- Lift them out and keep them warm. Cooked longer than that, country ham goes from firm to leathery.
- Pour the coffee into the hot pan and scrape everything up as it bubbles.
- Reduce it by about a third. It stays thin — this is a sauce you spoon over, not one that coats.
- Grind pepper in and pour it over the ham. It should taste of ham first and coffee second.
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