Eggs cooked low and slow into soft set curds with the bread soaked and mashed into them first, ricotta melted through on the heat and spinach chopped fine. A spoon breakfast built so that nothing on the plate asks for a firm bite.
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120 g baby spinach
6 slices soft white bread, weighed after the crusts are cut off, torn into 1 cm pieces (180 g)
150 ml full-cream milk (155 g)
8 eggs (400 g)
20 g unsalted butter
250 g fresh ricotta
10 g chives, snipped fine
Ground black pepper, to taste
Method
Put the spinach in a heatproof bowl and pour boiling water over it so it collapses. Leave it to sit until the leaves are fully wilted, drain, run cold water over it until cool enough to handle, and discard every stem. Gather the leaves into a tight ball and chop across it one way, then turn the board and chop across it the other way, until no piece is longer than 5 mm in any direction; a strand that could wrap around a fork is too long. Squeeze it in your fist until it stops dripping, then fluff it apart with your fingers so it does not go into the pan as a lump.
Warm the milk (30 seconds in the microwave is enough). Put the torn bread in a large bowl, pour the warm milk over, leave 10 minutes, then mash with a fork until it is a smooth paste with no piece bigger than a pea and nothing that springs back when pressed; keep mashing until the fork meets no resistance anywhere. Crack in the eggs and whisk until no streaks of white remain.
Put the ricotta in a small bowl and break it up with a fork until it is loose crumbs with no lump bigger than a pea, then stir the chopped spinach through it so the spinach is dispersed in the ricotta; they go in while the eggs are still cooking, not after, so the whole pan reaches temperature together.
Melt the butter in a non-stick frying pan at least 28 cm across over low heat. Pour in the egg mixture and stir slowly and constantly with a spatula, scraping the base and breaking any curd bigger than a teaspoon as it forms, for 8-10 minutes, until small soft curds have formed and about a quarter of the mixture is still wet. Add the ricotta and spinach now and keep stirring over low-medium heat for 5-6 minutes more, until no liquid egg remains anywhere in the pan, the ricotta is warmed through in small soft flecks, and the whole mass is steaming hot throughout, at least 75C/167F on a probe pushed into the middle of the pan. It should be set in small curds and still creamy, not dry.
Snip the chives into pieces no longer than 2 mm, stir them through the eggs in the pan so they soften in the heat, then spoon into warm bowls and season with pepper. Eat with a spoon.
Serve
In a bowl, with a spoon. The bread has been mashed into the eggs and the spinach cut short in both directions, so it is a soft-set scramble built to need little chewing; on a bad day, leave the chives out.
Tomorrow
Scrambled eggs are best the minute they are made, and this is written to be eaten fresh; the recipe halves cleanly for two. The spinach can be blanched and chopped the night before and kept covered in the fridge. If there are leftovers, they reheat to a firmer texture than the first sitting.
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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Eggs cooked low and slow into soft set curds with the bread soaked and mashed into them first, ricotta melted through on the heat and spinach chopped fine. A spoon breakfast built so that nothing on the plate asks for a firm bite.
Ingredients
120 g baby spinach
6 slices soft white bread, weighed after the crusts are cut off, torn into 1 cm pieces (180 g)
150 ml full-cream milk (155 g)
8 eggs (400 g)
20 g unsalted butter
250 g fresh ricotta
10 g chives, snipped fine
Ground black pepper, to taste
Approximate per serving
1684 kJ / 402.6 kcal · protein 25.6 g · carbohydrate 25 g · fibre 2.3 g · fat 21.7 g · sodium 493.8 mg
Method
Put the spinach in a heatproof bowl and pour boiling water over it so it collapses. Leave it to sit until the leaves are fully wilted, drain, run cold water over it until cool enough to handle, and discard every stem. Gather the leaves into a tight ball and chop across it one way, then turn the board and chop across it the other way, until no piece is longer than 5 mm in any direction; a strand that could wrap around a fork is too long. Squeeze it in your fist until it stops dripping, then fluff it apart with your fingers so it does not go into the pan as a lump.
Warm the milk (30 seconds in the microwave is enough). Put the torn bread in a large bowl, pour the warm milk over, leave 10 minutes, then mash with a fork until it is a smooth paste with no piece bigger than a pea and nothing that springs back when pressed; keep mashing until the fork meets no resistance anywhere. Crack in the eggs and whisk until no streaks of white remain.
Put the ricotta in a small bowl and break it up with a fork until it is loose crumbs with no lump bigger than a pea, then stir the chopped spinach through it so the spinach is dispersed in the ricotta; they go in while the eggs are still cooking, not after, so the whole pan reaches temperature together.
Melt the butter in a non-stick frying pan at least 28 cm across over low heat. Pour in the egg mixture and stir slowly and constantly with a spatula, scraping the base and breaking any curd bigger than a teaspoon as it forms, for 8-10 minutes, until small soft curds have formed and about a quarter of the mixture is still wet. Add the ricotta and spinach now and keep stirring over low-medium heat for 5-6 minutes more, until no liquid egg remains anywhere in the pan, the ricotta is warmed through in small soft flecks, and the whole mass is steaming hot throughout, at least 75C/167F on a probe pushed into the middle of the pan. It should be set in small curds and still creamy, not dry.
Snip the chives into pieces no longer than 2 mm, stir them through the eggs in the pan so they soften in the heat, then spoon into warm bowls and season with pepper. Eat with a spoon.
Serve
In a bowl, with a spoon. The bread has been mashed into the eggs and the spinach cut short in both directions, so it is a soft-set scramble built to need little chewing; on a bad day, leave the chives out.
Tomorrow
Scrambled eggs are best the minute they are made, and this is written to be eaten fresh; the recipe halves cleanly for two. The spinach can be blanched and chopped the night before and kept covered in the fridge. If there are leftovers, they reheat to a firmer texture than the first sitting.
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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