Basic Ways of Cooking Eggs

Soft Boiled Eggs

Boil water in a pan, turn down the heat, put eggs and simmer down for 3 to 4 minutes. Make sure you have enough water to cover the eggs.

Boiled Eggs

Heat water in a pan, when it starts to boil, simmer and add eggs one by one carefully. Allow to boil for 7 minutes in medium heat. Take out from fire, immediately add cold water and then drain. Remove the shells and use it.

Poached Egg

Take Shallow sauce pan and hall fill water in it. Bring to boil and then simmer it. Have little water ready, which is mixed with little vinegar and a pinch of salt. Break eggs into cups, slip one by one into the boiling water. Sprinkle some of the Vinegar water on each egg. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Lift carefully, drain the water and serve sprinkled with salt and pepper.

Omelette

Break eggs in a bowl season it with salt, pepper and beat very lightly with fork or spoon. Heat a frying pan, add little butter, when it melts, tilt the pan in hand so that the butter is completely covered on the bottom of the pan. Now pour the egg mixture, till the pan sightly so that the liquid part sets evenly. When it begins to set, turn over carefully cook for a minute and remove from fire.

Finely cut onions, chillies, coriander leaves or tomatoes can be added to the omelette with a spoon of milk of water (to make it flufft) according to taste.Little tomato juice added to the egg mixture makes it tasty.

Scrambled Egg

Heat butter in a pan, break eggs and pour it on top. Allow it to set minute and stir constantly all the time till it becomes small pieces, add salt and pepper mix well and serve hot with ketch up.

Variations

Add finely cut onions first and do the same recipe. At the end add small pieces of bread and fry till it is mixed together, serve hot with ketch up. Chillies or even powder can be added along with pepper.

Bulls Eye or Fried Egg

Heat butter in a sauce pan, till the pan slightly till it spreads evenly. Break two eggs one by one and pour on top, allow it to set in a low flame. Sprinkle saltand pepper. Carefully slide them in a plate and serve. (In this only the white part sets. Yolks of the egg are partially set.)

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