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550 g potatoes, peeled and cut into 3 cm pieces
1 large leek, trimmed and finely sliced (175 g)
40 g unsalted butter
200 ml milk (206 g)
4 eggs (204 g, shelled)
6 g chives, snipped
1 g iodised table salt
Ground black pepper, to taste
Method
Put the potatoes in a saucepan of cold water with half the salt, bring to the boil and simmer 15-18 minutes, until a knife slides in and out with no resistance at all.
Meanwhile melt the butter in a small pan, add the leek and the rest of the salt, cover and cook over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring now and then. Take it past tender: any squeak left in a slice of leek is the one thing on this plate that would need chewing.
Warm the milk in the leek pan at the end.
Drain the potatoes and return them to the dry pan for 30 seconds to steam off, then mash them with the leek, its butter and the hot milk until loose enough to spread slowly across the plate. Beat in more milk if it stands up in peaks.
Poach the eggs in a wide pan of barely simmering water for 3 minutes, until the whites are set and the yolks still move.
Spoon the purée into two shallow bowls, sit the eggs on top and break the yolks so they run through. Scatter with chives and grind over pepper.
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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Potato and leek cooked until they give with no resistance and beaten to a loose purée, with poached eggs broken over the top.
Ingredients
550 g potatoes, peeled and cut into 3 cm pieces
1 large leek, trimmed and finely sliced (175 g)
40 g unsalted butter
200 ml milk (206 g)
4 eggs (204 g, shelled)
6 g chives, snipped
1 g iodised table salt
Ground black pepper, to taste
Approximate per serving
2217 kJ / 529.8 kcal · protein 23.4 g · carbohydrate 41.3 g · fibre 5.9 g · fat 28.8 g · sodium 403.6 mg
Method
Put the potatoes in a saucepan of cold water with half the salt, bring to the boil and simmer 15-18 minutes, until a knife slides in and out with no resistance at all.
Meanwhile melt the butter in a small pan, add the leek and the rest of the salt, cover and cook over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring now and then. Take it past tender: any squeak left in a slice of leek is the one thing on this plate that would need chewing.
Warm the milk in the leek pan at the end.
Drain the potatoes and return them to the dry pan for 30 seconds to steam off, then mash them with the leek, its butter and the hot milk until loose enough to spread slowly across the plate. Beat in more milk if it stands up in peaks.
Poach the eggs in a wide pan of barely simmering water for 3 minutes, until the whites are set and the yolks still move.
Spoon the purée into two shallow bowls, sit the eggs on top and break the yolks so they run through. Scatter with chives and grind over pepper.
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.
Real meals made mechanically easier to eat when chewing hurts. That is a job about texture and chewing rather than swallowing (dysphagia) guidance, and it is not a treatment for TMD itself.
