Together with foods such as meat, fish, beans, and vegetables…eggs are a source of essential vitamins and nutrients for our bodies. With a delicious taste, nutritional value, and diverse cooking methods, eggs are an indispensable dish in our daily meals. You can create many delicious dishes from eggs such as fried eggs, scrambled eggs with meat, egg soup…but perhaps the most popular is the poached egg. Depending on preferences and tastes, you can poach eggs to different degrees of doneness. However, for the most fragrant and creamy egg, that would be the poached egg with a soft center.
It may sound simple, but to make a delicious poached egg, you need to “time” the cooking time to ensure that the dish retains its delicious flavor without losing its nutritional value. If poached for too long, this dish can lose its nutritional value and not be good for your health.
1. The right time to poach an egg
The standard time for each level of doneness for eggs is to poach them from 4 to 14 minutes. In which the poached egg with a soft center will range from 3 to 8 minutes. If you poach the egg for about 3-4 minutes (counting from when the water starts boiling), the inside of the egg will have a soft liquid yolk, which can be eaten with a spoon after cracking the shell. However, if poached for about 8 minutes, the egg white and yolk will start to solidify, but the yolk will still be slightly sticky and have a yellow color.
2. How to poach a delicious egg for different types of eggs
2.1. For chicken eggs, duck eggs
– Chicken eggs or duck eggs after purchase will be washed clean of the shells.
– Place a pot on the stove and pour enough water to cover 2/3 of the eggs and boil. When the water is boiling, add the eggs and poach them for about 5 minutes if you want to eat the soft center and 6 minutes for a slightly sticky soft center. In case the eggs are stored in the refrigerator, you need to increase the cooking time by about 30 seconds.
– After removing the eggs, immediately put them in a bowl of cold water for about 3 minutes. Thanks to this, the eggs will be easy to peel after poaching. When you eat, you will feel the rich, creamy, and incredibly enticing taste of the eggs.
2.2. For quail eggs
– Quail eggs after being washed will be drained. Wait for the pot of water to boil, then gently add the eggs to poach.
– Wait about 1 minute, then remove the eggs from the pot and quickly place them in a bowl of cold water.
– Because quail eggs are quite small and when poached with a soft center, you need to handle them gently to avoid breaking the eggs.
– You can eat quail eggs with a soft center immediately after peeling or soak them in a familiar sauce like spring onions, dried onions, garlic, chili…and enjoy with hot rice.
3. How to differentiate between fresh and old eggs
Although there are many ways to distinguish between eggs, the simplest way is to use a glass of water to test.
First, prepare a glass of filtered water, then gently put the egg into the glass of water. If the egg sinks completely to the bottom of the glass, then it is a fresh egg. On the contrary, if the egg floats, it may have been stored for a long time.
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