The Perfect Start to Your Day
Tonia George
Published by Ryland Peters & Small (£20)
Photography by Jonathan Gregson © Ryland Peters & Small
The Perfect Poached Egg Recipe For a Sunday Breakfast
Fresh, flavourful and made in a flash, this poached egg recipe is the ultimate Sunday fix
How do you like your eggs in the morning? We can't get enough of poached eggs and this recipe from The Perfect Start to Your Day does them beautifully.
Poached Eggs on Spinach with Yoghurt and Spiced Butter
This egg dish is packed with so much flavour that you will be hooked from the first taste. If you can't get hold of Turkish bread, then pita or sourdough work well
Serves
4
Ingredients
- 1 small garlic clove, crushed
- 200g Greek yogurt
- 50 g / 3 tbsp butter
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- ½ tsp dried chilli / hot pepper flakes
- ½ tsp sea salt flakes
- 1 loaf of Turkish flat bread, cut into 4 squares and halved horizontally
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 400g spinach
- 8 large eggs
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Method
Preheat the grill/broiler to high. Get everything ready before you start cooking: mix the garlic and yogurt. Put the butter, cumin, chilli/pepper flakes and salt flakes in a small saucepan. Put the flat bread on a baking sheet. Fill two deep frying pans with water and bring to the boil over high heat.
Heat a wok, then add the oil and when hot, add the spinach in batches. Toss around the wok so it cooks evenly and when it is just wilted, take it off the heat, season and cover.
Reduce the heat under the two frying pans to low so the water is barely simmering and break four eggs, far apart, into each pan. Leave for three minutes.
Grill/broil the bread, cut side up, until lightly toasted, then transfer to four plates. Spread some garlic yogurt over the bread and heap a mound of spinach on top. Using a slotted spoon, sit a poached egg on top of each square of yoghurty bread. Quickly heat the spiced butter over high heat until bubbling, pour over the eggs and serve.
