Poached Eggs and Spinach for Breakfast

Poached Eggs and Spinach for Breakfast. Add eggs to your spinach for a wholesome breakfast that will keep your family energized throughout the day.

This is a great way to add greens to your diet that is rich in protein without indulging in extra calories. Combine this with a slice of toast for a hearty breakfast.

Green leafy vegetables like spinach, lettuce, radish have plenty of fibre, minerals, and vitamins. When you add a couple of eggs to these vegetables you can ensure that you get a complete nutritious meal.

In this recipe, we first cook the spinach with a little oil, garlic, and onions and then top it with eggs. Basically, here we are poaching the eggs over a bed of cooked spinach.

Poached Eggs and Spinach is a wonderful breakfast recipe to begin your day with. You could also have this with chapatis or rice even lunch or dinner.

Poached Eggs and Spinach Recipe

Poached Eggs and Spinach is the quickest and easiest recipe that you can make on a busy weekday morning. Spinach cooks in a jiffy and also the eggs get poached within minutes.

To make this recipe of Poached Eggs and Spinach firstly, cook the spinach like you would cook any leafy vegetable. Leafy vegetables need to be washed thoroughly under running water to get rid of any sand or dirt. After you wash the spinach, roll the leaves and chop it into 1/2 an inch thickness and set aside.

Now let’s begin with the recipe –

• Heat 2 tbsp oil in a broad pan and saute a few cloves of finely minced garlic. Garlic adds an awesome flavour to spinach hence I recommend that you do not skip it.

• When garlic slightly browns add a finely sliced onion and a few chopped green chillies. Use green chillies to suit your spice level.

• When onions are translucent add spinach leaves and salt to taste. Wash and chop the spinach leaves before you could cook them.

• Cook the spinach in an open pan on a low to medium flame. Do not cover the pan as the spinach will release excessive moisture and also lose its colour. The spinach will take you about 5 to 8 minutes to cook.

• When the spinach is almost cooked, dry up any extra moisture and then crack the eggs and drop them one by one over the bed of spinach. Sprinkle some salt and pepper over the eggs. Also, add in the cubed tomato at this stage.

• Now cover the pan with a lid and allow the eggs to cook completely. If you love half poached eggs then switch off the flame when the eggs are done as per your liking.

• Poached Eggs and Spinach Recipe is ready within minutes and this makes a wholesome meal for the entire family.

Serving Suggestions

Cook Poached Eggs and Spinach and enjoy this recipe for breakfast, lunch or even dinner. You could serve this with some toast for breakfast or chapatis for lunch.

This recipe goes well with steamed rice too. Eggs and Spinach make a complete meal full of nutrients for the entire family.

Other Egg recipes that you may like to try

LENTILS AND EGGS is also a similar recipe where you poach eggs on a bed of cooked red lentils. This is a high protein recipe and extremely delicious.

EGG DROP CURRY – This is an egg curry recipe where we cook the eggs in a coconut-based curry. The recipe has the East Indian Bottle masala but you could try it with any curry masala that you have.