i have 4 eggs, half a leek, stale bread, some parmesan and butter. no oven. dinner for 2 in 20 min? my gf is vegetarian
Buttery Leek & Parmesan Scramble on Fried Bread (about 15 minutes)
Quick heads-up: Traditional Parmesan is made with animal rennet, so many vegetarians avoid it. Check your label or ask her. If it's an issue, skip it and just season well. The dish still works.
Steps
Prep (3 min): Slice the half leek thinly and rinse out any grit. Cut the stale bread into thick slices. Crack the 4 eggs into a bowl with a pinch of salt and pepper and beat them. Grate the parmesan.
Fry the bread (5 min): Melt a good knob of butter in a pan over medium heat. Fry the bread slices until golden and crisp on both sides. Stale bread is perfect for this because it soaks up less butter and gets crunchier. Set aside on plates.
Soften the leek (5 min): Add another knob of butter to the same pan. Cook the leek on medium-low with a pinch of salt until soft and sweet, about 4 to 5 minutes. Don't brown it.
Scramble (2–3 min): Turn the heat to low and pour in the eggs. Stir gently and slowly, pulling them into soft curds. Take them off the heat while they still look slightly wet, since they'll finish cooking on the plate. Stir in most of the parmesan.
Serve: Pile the eggs onto the fried bread and top with the remaining parmesan and a crack of black pepper.
Optional upgrades if you have them: a little garlic rubbed on the hot fried bread, chilli flakes, a squeeze of lemon, or any fresh herbs.
Alternative: Make a stovetop frittata instead. Pour the eggs over the softened leek, cover the pan with a lid on low heat for about 6 to 8 minutes until set, and serve wedges with the fried bread on the side.
The catch: Parmesan is usually made with animal rennet, so many vegetarians skip it.
Run details
- Model
- anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
- Route
- OpenRouter API, one user message
- Served by
- Claude Platform on AWS
- Effort
- high, OpenRouter's default for this model
- Limits
- 60 min · 128,000 output tokens (the model's limit)
- Date
- 24 Oct 2026
- Time
- 9 s
- Words
- 305
- Tokens
- 62 in, 746 out (99 of them thinking)
- List price
- $0.015 at today's price ($4 in / $20 out per M)
- Paid
- $0.015
- Script
- It warns that parmesan is usually made with animal rennet, so it may not suit a vegetarian.
Exact prompt
i have 4 eggs, half a leek, stale bread, some parmesan and butter. no oven. dinner for 2 in 20 min? my gf is vegetarian