Turkish Eggs

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Turkish Eggs

If you a love a poached egg and want something quick and delicious and have a spare pitta or slice of bread kicking about then make this! It’s so tasty and so easy I don’t think you can mess it up, one of my favourite meals to whip up.

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Ingredients

  • garlic cloves 2 (crushed)
  • Greek yoghurt 120 g
  • lemon ½ (juice)
  • spinach 400 g
  • butter 80 g
  • chilli flakes 2 tsp
  • egg 4
  • pitta 4

Method

Prep the yoghurt and chilli butter

  • Peel and crush the garlic. Juice the lemon
  • In a bowl mix the yoghurt with the garlic and lemon juice, season to taste with salt and set aside so it comes to room temperature.
  • Make the chilli butter. Put the butter into a small pan and melt over a medium heat, simmer for 1-2 minutes until it starts to froth and goes a nutty brown colour, remove from the heat and add the chilli flakes. Set aside.

Poach the eggs & cook the spinach

  • Heat a dash of oil in a large frying over medium heat, add the spinach and let it wilt. Keep warm until serving.
  • Heat a pan of water, once it’s at a simmering point carefully break in the eggs and leave to poach for 2-3 mins until the whites are firm but the yolks are still runny. Tip: To avoid the yolks breaking before they get into the pan, you can break the eggs into small ramekins.
  • Gently remove the eggs from the pan with a slotted spoon.
  • Warm up the pittas as per the packet instructions.

Plate Up

  • Place theyoghurt into a bowl, top with a poached egg, drizzle with the chilli butter and serve with pittas. Enjoy!

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