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
- 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.
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.
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
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.