Joe’s special (Eggs with ground beef and spinach)
June 13, 2013
Legend has it that the “Joe’s Special” was invented late one night at a Joe‘s Restaurant in San Francisco. A hungry musician ordered a spinach omelet after hours but asked the chef to add something to make the eggs more substantial. The chef said he had some hamburger meat left over from the dinner hour and added it in. Today, all around San Francisco, there are Joe’s restaurants serving this dish and claiming that they are “not associated with any other ‘Joe’s’ restaurants.” In my version of this easy, one-dish meal, I threw in some chorizo (spicy Spanish sausage) because that’s also what I had on hand, leftover from a previous dinner hour.
Joe’s Special (Eggs with ground beef and spinach)
2013-06-03 19:48:54
Serves 4
An easy one-dish meal made with eggs, spinach, ground beef, and chorizo.
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
15 min
Total Time
25 min
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
404g
Servings
4
Amount Per Serving
Calories 728
Calories from Fat 465
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 52g
79%
Saturated Fat 19g
95%
Trans Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 5g
Monounsaturated Fat 23g
Cholesterol 422mg
141%
Sodium 1818mg
76%
Total Carbohydrates 11g
4%
Dietary Fiber 4g
14%
Sugars 2g
Protein 54g
Vitamin A
243%
Vitamin C
66%
Calcium
21%
Iron
46%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- Splash or two of hot pepper sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon sea salt or more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly milled black pepper or more to taste
- 500 g. (ca. 1 lb.) ground beef
- 5 cm (ca. 2 inch) piece of chorizo sausage, peeled and finely diced
- 1 large onion, finely diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 500 g. (1 lb.) fresh baby spinach or ca. 250 g. (9 oz.) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
Instructions
- Crack the eggs into a mixing bowl and add the hot pepper sauce, basil, salt, and pepper. Whisk to combine. Set aside.
- Brown the ground beef along with the chorizo in a large skillet over medium heat. Break the meat into small pieces as it cooks.
- When the ground beef is completely browned (no remaining pink) and has released enough fat, add the onion and garlic to the pan. Continue cooking until the garlic has softened and the onion is translucent. (At this point, I removed a portion to a separate pan to serve the kids, who don’t eat spinach. I skipped the following step and finished cooking their meal in the second pan, following the step below that.)
- Cover with the spinach, place a lid over the mixture, and cook for about 3 minutes, just until the spinach wilts. (If using frozen spinach, cook, covered, for 1 minute, just to take off its raw edge.) Stir the spinach into the meat, cooking briefly until it wilts. Pour off any excess fat and water.
- Push the meat mixture to one side of the pan and pour the egg mixture into the empty side. As the eggs begin to set, begin mixing them into the meat mixture. Remove from the heat and stir a few more times, as the eggs cook through from the residual heat. Serve immediately.
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OK that looks delicious, totally making that next week. Great ideas abound Ms. B!
Thank you! Bon Appetit!
Your kids don’t eat spinach?
What kind of parenting is that!!!
Do they have soda instead of milk?
Yep. Only soda. And as a rule, I only feed them packaged food with E-numbers. Just kidding. I’ve tried mostly everything, including baking it into bread and smuggling it into homemade sausages. If you have a successful trick for getting them to eat spinach, I’d be happy to hear it.
Hi, you forgot the champignon 🙂
Hi there! Thanks for pointing that out. There are versions of this recipe with mushrooms. So, feel free to add them in. 🙂
Would like joe’s recipe
Hi Estelle, Sorry. I was trying to fix a problem with the blog. The recipe should be visible. Now. Sorry for the delay.
Can’t get the recipe. Would love it! Please help me.
Hi and sorry. I was trying to fix all those weird special characters on my blog and deactivated the recipe plug in. It should be visible again.