Scrambled Eggs Are 99% Tastier When You Add This Pizza-Style Topping (It's Not Sausage)

Your morning will be a lot more exciting if it starts with a plate of pizza-style scrambled eggs. Once you introduce pepperoni to this classic dish, boring breakfasts are a thing of the past. The monotony of cheese and sour cream has nothing on this Italian salami's smoky goodness, so grab a few slices, toss them into the pan, and have yourself a flavorful kickstart to the day.

You will taste the change in your scrambled eggs instantly. The usual mild creaminess is taken up a notch by the cured intensity of the pepperoni. Each crisp piece is a small implosion of savory, spicy goodness, grounded by a salty tang underneath. Rendered fat also does its thing and laces every bit of your eggs with those same flavor notes, cutting through the base and taking away its oh-so-familiar custardy taste.

With pepperoni added to the recipe, you only need to include one or two extra steps in the usual routine. Start by giving the pepperoni a quick round of frying in the pan, then leave it out to drain away the grease. Cook the scrambled eggs as usual and add the salami in the last few minutes, right when the eggs almost set. Alternatively, you can simply spread pepperoni slices over your scrambled eggs after cooking them as an easy, one-step topping that upgrades the entire dish.

Since you've already got slices of pepperoni, pizza-style scrambled eggs or pepperoni omelets are only a few extra ingredients away. Suffice it to say that typical pizza toppings are always great topping choices for your eggs, such as tomatoes (or even sun-dried tomatoes), mozzarella cheese, olives, bell peppers, and basil. Don't forget to include your favorite pizza sauce, whether it's marinara, Alfredo, or maybe even pesto. In fact, this is how you get a colorful and flavorful dish called eggs "alla pizzaiola" and make your "pizza-for-breakfast" dreams come true.

Bringing this wonderful combination to other meals, you can consider making a pizza-and-scrambled-eggs hybrid dish. For example, use it as filling for your grilled cheese sandwich or burrito — now those are meals you can eat at any time of the day. 

Furthermore, try turning both the scrambled eggs and pepperoni into pizza toppings by laying them over ready-made pizza crust, with a quick cheese broil to really seal the deal. In the oven, your scrambled eggs and pepperoni can also make for a hearty pan of pizza egg casserole should you ever want an easy, delicious brunch dish. In a slightly different spin, you can put leftover pepperoni pizza into your scrambled eggs for a much more filling eating experience.