The idea for this stuffed bread came to me a few days ago while I was writing the recipe for double-stuffed bread (have you seen it yet? 😊).

Right at that moment where I write to you about cheese alternatives, right there while I was reflecting on what low-sodium ingredient could replace cheese, and while deciding that boiled eggs are, in my opinion, an excellent zero-salt protein alternative, I suddenly realized what I had to do with that blessed boiled egg I had in the fridge since Sunday. 😃 That is, from Easter Sunday. Yes, I had been looking for an idea since Easter! And to think it was so simple, so simple that I hadn’t thought of it.

The blessed boiled egg is an Easter tradition that still persists here with us. Does it with you too? It involves taking the eggs to be blessed at the end of Holy Week, and then eating them on Easter morning along with bread and other Easter cakes or sweet breads.

However, since none of us has the habit of eating boiled eggs for breakfast (which combined with all the abundant goodness clogs a bit, let’s admit it), certain years, like this year, instead of eating a whole boiled egg each, we split it in half. And the two or three blessed eggs left over then become the second course of a subsequent meal.

But this time, this round of surplus boiled eggs didn’t work perfectly: I found myself with a surviving egg that I didn’t know how or where to use, and every time I opened the fridge I looked at it with indecision.

What’s the problem? – you might say – just eat it, right? Eh yes yes, and yet the dilemma was there. Because being that boiled egg a blessed egg, I didn’t like making discriminations on the assignment. Who to make eat it? How to divide it? Into four wedges, one for each? Or in half? The latter option, that is, in half to be assigned to the two children, was in fact a good and fair choice, the most likely one I was about to reach. If I hadn’t had this unexpected illumination of stuffed bread, with which I could distribute the egg evenly. Ahhhh, a blessed Columbus egg in short. 😄😃

And finally the adventure of the blessed boiled egg arrives in the Light and Tasty column. For today the Team has planned an Easter recycling recipe, and therefore with great pleasure, I participate with this stuffed bread of recycled blessed boiled egg, plus a handful of agretti (also known as lischeri, or friar’s beard) that I couldn’t decide to cook but that ultimately met a great end.

A perfect Easter recycle!, don’t you think? 😊

And if you are looking for other recycling ideas, take a look here: 👇