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Scrambled Eggs with Spinach on Toast

Soft scrambled eggs with spinach wilted through them, on wholegrain toast. Cooked in butter rather than swimming in it.

Scrambled Eggs with Spinach on Toast. Soft scrambled eggs with spinach wilted through them, on wholegrain toast. Cooked in butter rather than swimming in it.
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Prep 5 minCook 8 minServes 2

Ingredients

Why metric?

Metric avoids regional spoon ambiguity. US uses 5 mL tsp, 15 mL tbsp and 240 mL cup. Small masses stay in grams unless a verified recipe conversion exists. More on measurements

  • 4 eggs (204 g)
  • 100 g baby spinach
  • 4 slices wholegrain bread (160 g)
  • 15 g unsalted butter
  • 30 ml reduced-fat milk (31 g)
  • 0.5 g iodised table salt
  • Ground black pepper, to taste

Method

  1. Wilt the spinach in a dry pan over medium heat for 2 minutes, then tip it into a sieve and press the water out. Wet spinach makes watery eggs.
  2. Toast the bread.
  3. Beat the eggs with the milk and salt. Melt the butter in a non-stick pan over low heat and pour them in.
  4. Stir slowly, pulling the set edges into the middle, for 2-3 minutes. Fold the spinach through in the last thirty seconds.
  5. Take them off while they still look glossy and slightly underdone; they carry on cooking in the pan. Serve on the toast with pepper.

Tomorrow

The eggs will be firmer and the toast soft. Keep the eggs and spinach, and toast fresh bread rather than reheating the slice.

Safety and storage

Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 60°C

Cool and cover within two hours of cooking; split large amounts into shallow containers so they chill quickly. Reheat until steaming hot, at least 60°C.

Where these temperatures come from