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Baked Eggs in Tomato Sauce: The Miracle Meal You’ll Want to Memorize

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Baked Eggs in Tomato Sauce is so simple you’ll want to have it memorized for hectic nights.

Baked eggs in tomato sauce

Cast Iron Skillet with baked eggs in tomato sauce on blue background

This simple recipe for baked eggs in tomato sauce has so few ingredients, it’s an easy recipe to memorize.

First, you’ll create an easy homemade tomato sauce by sauteeing onions then adding spices and tomatoes.

After you’ve allowed that mixture to cook down, you’ll transfer the sauce to a cast iron skillet. Crack eggs on top of the sauce then pop into the oven until the eggs are set.

This is a humble meal but it never fails to satisfy.

In Colorado, I can purchase a dozen organic eggs for around $5.  In fact, the ingredients in this recipe can be purchased organically and will still cost you under $10. If you are feeding a family of 4 – that’s only $2.50 a person for an organic dinner.

Close up of baked eggs in tomato sauce baked in cast iron skillet

We love to serve this with a hot loaf of crusty bread. Tear off pieces and use to dunk into the sauce.

A quick, simple salad makes this a complete meal.

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Baked Eggs in Tomato Sauce

Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 small chopped onion
  • 2 cloves of garlic minced
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 tablespoon paprika
  • 1 28 oz can whole tomatoes or 2 (14) oz canned diced tomatoes
  • 8 large eggs
  • pinch salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Heat olive oil in pan. Add onion and cook until translucent - about 6 minutes. Add garlic, cumin, and paprika and cook an additional 2 minutes. 

  3.  If using whole tomatoes, pour tomatoes in a bowl and chop. Add chopped tomatoes to the cooking onions. Turn heat to medium low and allow to cook down for about 20 minutes.

  4. Spread tomato mixture in the bottom of cast iron skillet or a 9x9 pan.

  5. Crack eggs on top of tomato mixture. Place in oven and cook for 24 to 26 minutes.

Eggs in tomato sauce is a perfect fit if you are trying to eat healthy and trim money from your grocery budget.

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Comments

  4. Pammypam

    Ok noy sure about eggs in tomato sauce, however i love the ingenuity of it! Also love the meatless monday theme. I try and fail to be vegetarian so this will give me ideas! Thank you!

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  11. staycee

    I’m not big on eggs or tomato sauce other than my grandmas but think my family would like something like this. Thanks for sharing your recipe

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  13. ConnieFoggles

    I have a thing about eggs. I’ll only eat them if they’re scrambled or I’ll just eat the whites. So this won’t work for me 🙁 I do know that scrambled eggs and tomato sauce is delicious though. I guess I could try it that way and cook a shorter time.

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  15. Jessica

    just wanted to chime in that you can do this on the stove top too, in a large skillet (which makes it a really quick meal) by sautéing your onion etc adding the tomatoes and then (once the tomatoes are nice and hot) break your eggs open on top of them…if you want the egg whites cooked all the way then i put the lid on for a a minute or two…the steem cooks them. This recipe is really the best in the summer though, when you can use fresh tomatoes instead of a can! my whole family loves it …we like it with fresh bread for sopping up the yummy yolk and tomato juice at the end.

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    • Andrea Green

      Jessica – Great suggestion! I’ve always just put them in the oven, but your way sounds quicker. And I TOTALLY agree that fresh is the way to go! I get really sad when my garden stops producing fresh tomatoes. There just isn’t anything as tasty. Andrea

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