Nigella Lawson has shared her love of a good poached egg on top of leftover pizza – but has divided some of her fans in the process, with This Morning’s Holly Willoughby comparing it to something out of the bin.
Showing us how to jazz up those Sunday morning leftovers, the celebrated cook shared a photo of a piece of delicious pizza, topped with a runny egg over the weekend.
Alongside the snap, Nigella wrote: ‘Now this is what I call a breakfast — leftover pizza from my Friday night order, reheated and topped with a poached egg and a splodge of chilli crisp.’
The word splodge may divide others for a whole other reason, but doesn’t it just sound delicious?
We suppose this is where we chime in and insist we do realise egg on a pizza is hardly the wildest of culinary ideas, seeing as a Florentine pizza involves cracking one right in the middle of the dish before baking.
But for morning TV host Holly, we can only assume we won’t be seeing her adding one from the carton when she next orders a takeaway pizza.
As she dissected Nigella’s effect of influencing our breakfast – following her tips on the perfect toast, should you be interested – Holly and Phillip Schofield shared their thoughts on her latest offering.
Holly said: ‘I’m kind of loving all of this I have to say, but this week she has divided food fans again by suggesting breakfast of an egg on top of a leftover pizza.
‘So this is the picture of the egg. So you get your pizza from the delivery, you wait for it to go cold and then you pop an egg on it.’
Phil added: ‘It looks like something that’s just been run over by a car.’
Not done just yet, Holly hilariously quipped: ‘It looks like something that’s come out of the bottom of a bin, I think.’
Now, to some, such an accompaniment of the carby fave was shocking with one follower of Nigella’s exclaiming on Instagram: ‘[This] should never be called a pizza!! It’s a disgrace to the food of the gods!’
However, to others, this was the most genius idea ever, as another applauded they ‘loved to see it’, which we, in turn, love to see.
That was backed up by one fan who wrote on Instagram: ‘Oh now that is a good breakfast.’
Bon appetit!
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