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Poached Egg
How many love Poached egg..If you love runny egg yolks, you will love it. This is a little tricky recipe. But if you follow my step you could definitely make it. This is one of the basic for Egg Benedict(will put recipe soon). This is one of the kids friendly recipe. So please try this and let me know what you think.
Ingredients for Making Poached Egg
Egg - 1
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Vinegar - 1 tblspn
How to Make Poached Egg
- Heat water in a sauce pan till it reaches a good boil. Add vinegar and salt to the water.
- Reduce the flame and keep it in simmer.
- Crack a nice fresh egg in a small bowl and set it aside.
- Take a wooden spoon and give a nice swirl to the water in the sauce pan.When it swirls nicely carefully drop the egg inside the sauce pan.
- The egg will start swirling which makes the egg not settling and sticking at the bottom of the sauce pan.
- The hot water will cook the egg in 1 ½ min. After that with a slotted spoon carefully take the egg out and put it on a crispy toasted bread or bun.
- Sprinkle some salt and pepper over it.And that is a perfectly poached egg.
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How to Make Poached Egg
Ingredients
- Egg - 1
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- Vinegar - 1 tblspn
Instructions
- Heat water in a sauce pan till it reaches a good boil.Add vinegar and salt to the water.
- Reduce the flame and keep it in simmer.
- Crack a nice fresh egg in a small bowl and set it aside.
- Take a wooden spoon and give a nice swirl to the water in the sauce pan.When it swirls nicely carefully drop the egg inside the sauce pan.
- The egg will start swirling which makes the egg not settling and sticking at the bottom of the sauce pan.
- The hot water will cook the egg in 1 ½ min.After that with a slotted spoon carefully take the egg out...and put it on a crispy toasted bread or bun.
- Sprinkle some salt and pepper over it.And that is a perfectly poached egg..
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Step by Step
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Bring water to boil and season with salt and vinegar..Give a nice swirl to the pan using a wooden spoon |
Mugdha
perfectly done and looks soo yummy..:)
kothiyavunu.com
Thanks for stopping by kothiyavunu and lending me 2 ur lovely space..
those looks very tempting..love to follow u but i think google connect is not working..will check later and do so..hope 2 c u around.Cheers!
Alessandra
I like poached eggs, these came out perfect :-).
Ciao
A.
Radhika
Perfect looking. I had always been in awe of poached eggs. now thanks to you i know how to go abt it.
Yuvana's Favourites
Perfect eggs. bookmarked
Sweety
Didi u r the best...I must say this..Actually i ended up in ur blog looking for a bhakarwadi recipe...but once i saw the list of ur recipes there was no turning back..each recipe made me go for more..and the step wise pictorial way u have presented it is awesome..it is really helpful for starters like me...i will be ever so greatful to u..
Didi u ROCK!!!!