How To Cook Poached Eggs At Home: Cooking Methods And Step By Step Recipes + Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 22:26

Poached egg: preparing breakfast in French

Refined French cuisine has firmly won one of the first places in the culinary world. Today we will get acquainted with a simple and incredibly effective dish - a poached egg. It can be easily and quickly prepared for breakfast, combining with a variety of products. Poached eggs have a soft, creamy structure and it is for this that they are very loved not only by the French themselves, but also by many fans of European cuisine around the world.

Content

• 1 Secrets of the French charm of this dish

  • 1.1 What are poached eggs served with

    1.1.1 Photo Gallery: The Most Successful Companions for Poached Eggs

  • 1.2 "How much to cook after boiling" and other nuances of cooking

  • 1.3 A poached woman is a loyal friend of lazy gourmets

    1.3.1 Photo gallery: what are poached

• 2 Step by step instructions with photo

  • 2.1 The classic way to boil a poached egg
  • 2.2 Household tricks: poached egg in a bag or film
  • 2.3 In the microwave - cook for no more than a minute
  • 2.4 Steam cooking in a multicooker or double boiler

• 3 Simple Poached Egg Recipes From Famous Chefs

  • 3.1 Video: Jamie Oliver's Triple Poached Egg Boiling Workshop
  • 3.2 Video: croutons with poached eggs and butter sauce from Julia Vysotskaya
  • 3.3 Video: Hector Jimenez-Bravo's Healthy Breakfast Sandwich with Egg

Secrets of the French charm of this dish

The name of the dish contains the cooking method, which comes from the French word poché, which literally means a bag, a pocket, and in cooking - a variant of cooking food. This heat treatment method is used for delicate foods and is simmering in liquid at a temperature below the boiling point.

A poached egg is one of the most popular dishes prepared this way. In short, this is a method of boiling eggs in hot water without the shell. At first glance, the procedure may seem complicated, but making poached eggs at home is not difficult. The article describes several options for boiling poached eggs and gives all the necessary recommendations for their preparation.

Even an inexperienced chef can handle this dish. Various accessories and household appliances come to the rescue. Consider in detail such cooking methods:

• classic cooking in a saucepan with water;
• easy way to cook in cling film;
• express method for a microwave oven;
• adapted version for a multicooker.

What are poached eggs served with?

This dish is most often served for breakfast, sometimes for lunch. You can make a salad with such eggs, or you can serve them in portions. The most common option - the egg is laid out on toast or a piece of bread dried in a pan, to which a slice of ham, bacon and / or cheese is added. You can supplement the taste with a lettuce leaf, a tomato circle or any other vegetables. Hollandaise sauce is popular among the French.

Photo gallery: the best companions for poached eggs

French baguette croutons

Mix of steamed vegetables

Grilled vegetables

Arugula

Cereal bread toast and cherry tomatoes

Fresh spinach

Ham and hollandaise sauce - with egg benedict

"How much to cook after boiling" and other nuances of cooking

Actually, you need to start with the product itself, and not with the intricacies of cooking. The first and foremost requirement for preparing poached eggs in the classic way is the freshness of the eggs.

Now about the water: it should not be boiling, but only boiling. It is important for the egg to acquire a delicate consistency and not to be boiled in a regular "bag" and even more so soft-boiled. The optimum temperature for cooking poached eggs is 97 degrees Celsius.

Average cooking time is 4 minutes. The duration can be adjusted depending on the desired end result.

So that the finished egg has a beautiful oval shape, before cooking, you can hold it in water with a gentle boil for 10 seconds.

The poacher is a faithful friend of lazy gourmets

Holders of special molds have an excellent opportunity to boil a poached egg of an ideal shape. With their help, making a French breakfast will not be difficult.

There are different types of molds, but they all greatly facilitate the process of boiling eggs.

One of the popular tools is a round silicone mold. There are also special hanging poach makers, and products designed for a microwave or double boiler, and simple plastic models that resemble a slotted spoon, but have the shape of an egg.

Photo gallery: what are the poachers

Silicone mold for poached eggs

Closed pan for poached eggs, suitable for microwave oven and double boiler

Attached to the edge of the pan for making poached eggs

Special stewpan for boiling poached eggs on the stove

The cooking process in poach pan is quite simple. You just need to pour the egg into the mold, with or without water (depending on the material of the device), and send it to languish until tender.

Step-by-step instructions with photos

The classic way to boil a poached egg

This method is not at all complicated, but it still requires manual dexterity.

1. Pour about 2/3 of the water into a small saucepan. Add a tablespoon of vinegar and place on the stove to boil.

   

   You can add a tablespoon of vinegar to the water

2. In the meantime, carefully break the egg into a bowl and try not to damage the yolk.

   

   Break the egg into a bowl without damaging the yolk

3. Now you need to watch the water in the pan. This is important, the water should not boil. Wait until small bubbles form at the bottom and the contents begin to wobble. At this moment, armed with a spoon or a whisk, you need to twist a funnel in the container, into which then quickly and carefully pour the egg from the bowl.

   

   Pour the egg into a funnel of boiling water

4. The egg will simmer in water for about 3 minutes. After this time, the yolk will acquire a creamy consistency.

   

   The egg will simmer in a saucepan until tender, about 3 minutes.

5. You need to get the egg out of the water with a slotted spoon.

   

   Remove the egg with a slotted spoon and dip it in cold water for a few seconds

Home tricks: poached egg in a bag or film

To facilitate the procedure for boiling poached eggs, smart housewives came up with this unpretentious method. Of course, such an egg is not a truly French dish and a plastic wrap or plastic bag heated in water makes many people wary. However, it is still worth mentioning this method of preparing poached eggs.

1. You will need cling film. For one egg, it is enough to cut out a square about 20 by 20 cm in size, which will serve as a cooking bag.
2. Grease the inner surface of the film with oil and put it in a recessed dish.

3. Beat the egg carefully, without damaging the yolk. Gather and tie the ends of the film, forming a pouch.

   

   Form a pouch by tying the ends of the film or bag

4. Put the eggs prepared in this way in water, practically brought to a boil. In this case, you do not need to add vinegar to the water, and you do not need to spin the funnel.

   

   Place the eggs in the plastic wrap bag in boiling water

In the microwave - cook for no more than a minute

In order to boil poached eggs in the microwave, it will take a minimum of effort and time. Preparing this dish is surprisingly simple and quick.

1. A poached egg in the microwave is usually boiled either in a special form, or in a large bowl. The container must be filled with boiling water and vinegar added to it.

   

   To completely simplify the task, you can use a special poached container

2. Then drive an egg into the water and microwave it for 40-50 seconds at full power.

3. Remove the egg with a slotted spoon, rinse off the vinegar if necessary.

   

   Remove the egg from the water with a slotted spoon and rinse off the vinegar if necessary

Steam cooking in a multicooker or double boiler

A multicooker and a double boiler are quite suitable for cooking eggs without shells. You will need silicone molds of a suitable size: one for each egg. You can use muffin tins.

Instructions:

1. Drive an egg into a greased form. Pour two glasses of water into the multicooker bowl and place the required number of molds in the steamer basket.
2. Cook poached eggs in a multicooker with the lid closed, using the "Steamer" mode. To prevent condensation from getting into the egg tins, they can be covered with foil.
3. The cooking time is individual for each multicooker model, as they have different power. Approximate time - 3-4 minutes from the moment the water boils in the bowl.

4. The mold with ready-made poached eggs must be carefully turned out to get the eggs.

   

   To remove poached eggs, turn the tins inside out

Simple recipes with poached eggs from famous chefs

Now that the secrets of making poached eggs and the methods of cooking them have been considered, you can try to master several options for serving it. As mentioned above, eggs are paired with toast or croutons, vegetables, bacon, cheese, or ham. Each time, taking a poached egg as a basis, you can diversify the menu with a unique ensemble of different ingredients.

Chef from the UK Jamie Oliver shared the secrets of cooking first-class tender eggs in his video. He offers three variations with eggs at once and describes the process in detail.

Video: Jamie Oliver's Triple Poached Egg Cooking Workshop

The famous cook and presenter Julia Vysotskaya suggests, for example, serving crispy toasts with poached egg and sauce.

Video: croutons with poached eggs and butter sauce from Julia Vysotskaya

No less famous chef Hector Jimenez-Bravo gives a variation of the Benedict egg as a recipe for his favorite breakfast, but, strictly speaking, there is no poached egg, a fresh egg is simply baked in the oven.

Video: Hector Jimenez-Bravo's Healthy Egg Breakfast Sandwich

It is worth preparing poached eggs for breakfast - they will pleasantly surprise you with their taste. The list of components with which poached eggs are combined is very rich and varied. Everyone will be able to find the perfect combination for themselves and enjoy this simple and very healthy dish.