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Boiled egg and soldiers
Soft-boiled egg with crisp toast soldiers
- Difficulty: Easy
- Serves 1
- Vegetarian
Preparation
- Total time
- 5 Mins
- Preparation time
- 2 Mins
- Cooking time
- 3 Mins
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1-2 eggs
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2 slices bread
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Butter, room temperature
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Fill a pan with cold water.
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Put the eggs into the water and bring to boil.
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As soon as the water starts to boil, start your stopwatch or timer.
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For a runny egg, time 3 minutes exactly from when the water starts to boil.
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For soft-boiled eggs, 4-5 minutes.
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Once the eggs are cooked, remove from the pan and briefly run under cold water.
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Meanwhile, toast the bread, butter then slice into soldiers.
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Place the eggs into egg cups, slice off the tops and serve with the soldiers to dip, plus a little salt and pepper to sprinkle onto the egg.
You will need
Large saucepan
Stopwatch or egg timer
Egg cups
Tips
Always start with your eggs at room temperature - this helps to avoid cracking and cuts the cooking time
Variations
Try a bit of Marmite on your soldiers. Delicious!
Try dipping steamed asparagus spears in your eggs instead of bread
Reviews
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Poppy Y
★★★★★a classic - got to be Marmite soldiers!
Reviewed on 22/10/20
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