Years ago while on a business trip to Ann Arbor, MI I enjoyed
a fried soft boiled egg served on top of a Caesar salad that I've always wanted to recreate.
Not exact matches
In this cooking method, the onion and garlic are
fried in a little oil until onion is
soft, then the rest of the ingredients are added, brought to
boil, and simmered for a minute or two.
- Black pepper to taste - 2 tablespoons sesame oil - 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon brown sugar - 2 cups wild mushrooms left whole / sliced depending on size - or any other mushroom sliced - 4 packs Ramen noodles seasoning packets discarded - 4
soft boiled or
fried eggs for serving - sliced jalapenos, cilantro + green onions, for serving
I chose to top my bowl with a
soft boiled egg that I gently scooped out of the shell, but almost any other type of egg (
fried, poached, hard -
boiled, scrambled) would work here.
I recreated, as closely as I could, the
fried soft -
boiled egg I had at one of the Culinary Institute's restaurants last week.
T can scramble, coddle,
soft boil, poach,
fry and omelet (yep, I'm making that a verb) better than any kid I know.
It's great as is — though I did swap the
fried eggs for jammy
soft boiled ones for the sake of portability — but also the various components can be used separately.
Soft pretzel dough
boiled and salted and then instead of baked are deep
fried.
Even the highest quality eggs are rather inexpensive compared with other nutrient dense foods, so this is another reason budget challenged young adults need to know how to prepare them seven ways to Sunday — scrambled,
fried, over easy, over hard, poached,
soft boiled, hard
boiled etc..
Whole eggs: These can be prepared in various ways: deviled,
fried, hard -
boiled, omelets, poached, scrambled, and
soft -
boiled.
However, I don't like the taste the eggs gives, so I have replaced them by whey protein (I like eggs, I'm eating 2 - 3 eggs at breakfast usually
soft boiled or
fried, but I don't like them in the shake).
Optional toppings; green onions, inari age (
fried tofu skins), mushrooms, tofu, kamaboko (fish cake),
soft or hard
boiled eggs, red chili pepper
Fry the spring onion and frozen peas in some butter until
soft, and then add in the
boiling water with a stock cube.
Egg - cookery ranges across a huge territory, so I'm going to limit myself to only a few of the popular forms:
soft -
boiling, poaching, scrambling — and an afterword on
frying.