With this you might want to have toast soldiers, smart in their attire of good unsalted butter. For the photograph I used toast triangles instead.
Serves one.
Ingredients
1 egg
2 tablespoons sour cream or yogurt
Maldon salt
A knob of butter
A pinch of sweet, smoked paprika or normal paprika
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 C.
Grease a ramekin with olive oil or melted butter and spoon half the yogurt onto its base. Crack in the egg, dollop the remaining yogurt and crunch Maldon salt over it. Place the single ramekin into a small baking tin (I use a tiny loaf tin) and pour boiling water into the tin to rise halfway up the ramekin?s sides. Bake for 18 - 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt the butter in a saucepan over moderate heat until it foams and the whey separates and becomes golden. This will take about 3 minutes. Turn off the heat, swirl in the paprika.
Once the egg is cooked as wished, dribble over the caramelised, paprika-stained butter.
