Breakfast

Sardine and Boiled Egg Plate

Name: Sardine and Boiled Egg Plate
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 120 g Sardines in tomato sauce; 2 large, about 110 g Egg; 100 g Tomato; 30 g Red onion; A handful, chopped Fresh parsley; A wedge Lemon juice; To taste Black pepper

A tin of sardines in tomato sauce with two boiled eggs, sliced tomato, red onion and parsley. 35 g of protein for 367 kcal from things in the cupboard.

Calories: 367kcal
Protein: 35g
Fat: 21g
Carbs: 7g

Per serving, makes 1. 10 minutes of work. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Eggs
Fish

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Sardine and Boiled Egg Plate, plated and ready to serve. — The finished recipe. Sardine and Boiled Egg Plate

Ingredients 1 to 6 for sardine and boiled egg plate arranged separately on a dark worktop. — Ingredients 1 to 6. 120 g Sardines in tomato sauce (One standard tin, sauce and all. Tinned weight including the sauce.). 2 large, about 110 g Egg. 100 g Tomato. 30 g Red onion (Sliced paper-thin and soaked in cold water for five minutes to take the harshness out.). A handful, chopped Fresh parsley. A wedge Lemon juice

Ingredients 7 to 7 for sardine and boiled egg plate arranged separately on a dark worktop. — Ingredients 7 to 7. To taste Black pepper

Sardine and Boiled Egg Plate, preparation step 1: Boil the eggs for seven minutes, cool in cold water and peel. Put the onion slices in a bowl of cold water while they cook. — Step 1. Boil the eggs for seven minutes, cool in cold water and peel. Put the onion slices in a bowl of cold water while they cook.

Sardine and Boiled Egg Plate, preparation step 2: Slice the tomato and lay it on a plate with the drained onion. — Step 2. Slice the tomato and lay it on a plate with the drained onion.

The finished sardine and boiled egg plate. — Step 3. Tip the sardines and their sauce over, halve the eggs and add them, and finish with parsley, lemon and black pepper.

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Ingredients

Sardines in tomato sauce120 g
One standard tin, sauce and all. Tinned weight including the sauce.
Egg2 large, about 110 g
Tomato100 g
Red onion30 g
Sliced paper-thin and soaked in cold water for five minutes to take the harshness out.
Fresh parsleyA handful, chopped
Lemon juiceA wedge
Black pepperTo taste

Method

Boil the eggs for seven minutes, cool in cold water and peel. Put the onion slices in a bowl of cold water while they cook.
Slice the tomato and lay it on a plate with the drained onion.
Tip the sardines and their sauce over, halve the eggs and add them, and finish with parsley, lemon and black pepper.

Worth knowing

Sardines in tomato sauce rather than oil. The ones in oil, drained, are similar in calories, but the sauce is doing the dressing here for nothing.
Two boiled eggs and a tin of fish is 35 g of protein for 367 kcal, and nothing on the plate needed a pan beyond the eggs.

Other breakfast recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every breakfast between 300 and 450 calories a serving.

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