Little Egg And Ham Pies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 teaspoon olive oil or 1 teaspoon butter
12 slices good quality ham (thin slices)
12 large free-range eggs
2 tablespoons cream
sea salt
fresh ground black pepper
2 tablespoons parsley, roughly chopped
4 tablespoons freshly grated parmesan cheese

Preparation

Heat oven to 180\u00b0C (350\u00b0F).
Lightly oil or butter a 12-hole muffin tray.
Line the base and most of the sides of each mould with a slice of ham.
Break an egg into the ham.
Drizzle with cream, and scatter with sea salt, pepper, parsley and parmesan.
Bake for 15-20 minutes until the egg is just set and starting to shrink away from the sides of the tin.
Leave to cool for 5 minutes.
Run a knife around each mould to loosen the ham and egg, remove to a wire tray.
Eat warm or at room temperature.