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4 eggs (204 g)
340 ml reduced-fat milk (350 g)
65 g skim milk powder
10 g cornflour
18 g unsalted butter
5 slices soft white bread, crusts cut off (140 g trimmed)
10 g chives, finely snipped
black pepper, to taste
Method
Lower the eggs into simmering water and cook them 9 minutes, then drain and sit them in cold water until you can hold them. Nine minutes gives a yolk that is set but still soft, which chops into small pieces instead of crumbling to powder.
Whisk the cornflour and the milk powder into the cold milk until there is no grit at the bottom of the bowl. Cold first, always; either one tipped into hot milk seizes into lumps that never whisk out.
Melt the butter in a small pan over low heat, pour the milk in and cook 4-5 minutes, whisking the whole time. It should thicken to the consistency of pouring cream, thin enough to coat the whisk and run straight off it. If it sets firm, whisk in more milk.
Peel and chop the eggs into pieces about the size of a lentil and fold them through the sauce with the chives and some pepper. There is no added salt in this one; the bread brings plenty. Keep the pan over the lowest possible heat, just warm.
Toast the trimmed bread lightly, cut it into small squares and divide between two warm plates. Spoon the creamed egg over and leave it a full minute before starting; the bread drinks the sauce and softens right through, which is the reason the crusts came off first.
Serve
A soft yolk is not fully cooked. Guidance is to avoid undercooked egg if you are pregnant, over 70, under 2, or your immune system is low or suppressed — which includes many people on immune-modifying medicines. Cook the yolk through instead: the dish still works.
Safety and storage
Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 75°C
Cool it fast: split large amounts into shallow containers as soon as it stops steaming, and have it in the fridge within two hours. Reheat once only, until steaming hot right through, at least 75°C in the centre.
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Soft-boiled eggs chopped small and folded through a thin milk sauce, spooned over trimmed white toast and left a minute to soak in.
Ingredients
4 eggs (204 g)
340 ml reduced-fat milk (350 g)
65 g skim milk powder
10 g cornflour
18 g unsalted butter
5 slices soft white bread, crusts cut off (140 g trimmed)
10 g chives, finely snipped
black pepper, to taste
Approximate per serving
2444 kJ / 584.2 kcal · protein 36.8 g · carbohydrate 63.6 g · fibre 2.5 g · fat 19.9 g · sodium 661.9 mg
Method
Lower the eggs into simmering water and cook them 9 minutes, then drain and sit them in cold water until you can hold them. Nine minutes gives a yolk that is set but still soft, which chops into small pieces instead of crumbling to powder.
Whisk the cornflour and the milk powder into the cold milk until there is no grit at the bottom of the bowl. Cold first, always; either one tipped into hot milk seizes into lumps that never whisk out.
Melt the butter in a small pan over low heat, pour the milk in and cook 4-5 minutes, whisking the whole time. It should thicken to the consistency of pouring cream, thin enough to coat the whisk and run straight off it. If it sets firm, whisk in more milk.
Peel and chop the eggs into pieces about the size of a lentil and fold them through the sauce with the chives and some pepper. There is no added salt in this one; the bread brings plenty. Keep the pan over the lowest possible heat, just warm.
Toast the trimmed bread lightly, cut it into small squares and divide between two warm plates. Spoon the creamed egg over and leave it a full minute before starting; the bread drinks the sauce and softens right through, which is the reason the crusts came off first.
Serve
A soft yolk is not fully cooked. Guidance is to avoid undercooked egg if you are pregnant, over 70, under 2, or your immune system is low or suppressed — which includes many people on immune-modifying medicines. Cook the yolk through instead: the dish still works.
Safety and storage
Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 75°C
Cool it fast: split large amounts into shallow containers as soon as it stops steaming, and have it in the fridge within two hours. Reheat once only, until steaming hot right through, at least 75°C in the centre.
Meals built soft and small-particle, which is the dietary lever a recipe can genuinely control and one current guidance supports. Portion size is yours to set: these are written at an ordinary serving and divide in two if you are eating smaller and more often. Diagnosing, curing or treating gastroparesis is not something food does. If eating is not going in, if you are dehydrated or losing weight without meaning to, that needs a clinician rather than a different recipe.
