There are many ways to prepare eggs.
Chicken eggs are easy to find, and best of all, unlike other ingredients that are often limited to a single meal, eggs can be used for all three meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Because eggs can be used all day and are an ingredient in many dishes, there are also countless ways to prepare them.
Boil eggs
This is the most common, simple, and least time-consuming method to turn a raw egg into a hard-boiled one.
The eggs are placed in water and cooked until soft-boiled or to your desired doneness. The cooking time depends on your desired doneness.
Boiled eggs can be eaten with salad or eaten directly - Photo: Karsten Moran / New York Times
If eggs are kept in the refrigerator, take them out and let them come to room temperature about two hours before boiling. This ensures accurate timing for soft-boiled, runny or hard-boiled eggs.
Cooking eggs in a steamer will give you the same results as boiled eggs, if not better. This is because steam heats more evenly, is lighter than water, and makes the finished eggs easier to peel.
Scrambled eggs
Another quick and easy method is scrambled eggs, also known as scrambled eggs. This method is incredibly simple:
Eggs are shelled, beaten in a small bowl with a little salt, pepper, herbs. Then fried in a pan with a layer of oil or butter.
Scrambled eggs can be eaten with sandwiches or rice - Photo: Allrecipes
To make scrambled eggs more delicious, you should prepare a thick non-stick pan.
Adding salt to eggs before cooking will make them softer, and adding a little milk or cream to scrambled eggs helps keep the dish moist, but too much will make it runny.
The texture of scrambled eggs can range from soft to firm depending on cooking time.
Scrambled eggs can be eaten with sandwiches, rice, or you can simply add bread crumbs, herbs, cheese, tomatoes, or meat... to create a delicious breakfast.
Poached eggs
Poached eggs are a form of boiled eggs but with a much shorter cooking time.
Poached eggs are a form of boiled eggs but with a much shorter cooking time - Downshiftology
Poached eggs are prepared by cracking the egg shell and placing the egg white in boiling water until the white solidifies slightly, then removing it while the yolk is still slightly cooked.
Poached eggs are often eaten with dishes such as noodles, pho, bread or salad...
A small note for housewives that poached eggs are almost raw eggs, so only use eggs of clear origin to ensure food hygiene and safety.
Omelet
Sunny side up is also a way of cooking eggs that is no longer strange to anyone. This seemingly familiar egg dish is actually quite difficult to prepare.
Creating a fried egg with a perfectly cooked yolk nestled inside a golden-edged egg white is sometimes an art.
Fried eggs should be fried in hot oil rather than in butter, because the edges will turn brown and crispy. Photo: Karsten Moran / New York Times
Advice from culinary experts on The New York Times is that the fresher and at room temperature the egg is, the more evenly round it will retain its shape when cooked.
If you are making an omelet and the whites are cooking before the yolks, add about a teaspoon of water to the pan and cover the pan so the yolks cook in the steam. Open the lid every 15 seconds or so to check on the yolks.
Fried eggs should be fried in hot oil rather than in butter, as the edges will turn brown and crispy.
You can eat fried eggs with bread, noodles or just with soy sauce, it's delicious enough.
Omelet
Fried eggs are another method that is very similar to scrambled eggs.
The method is to peel the egg, beat the egg yolk in a bowl with spices, herbs or meat, ham… and cook in a non-stick pan with oil or butter.
However, instead of stirring the eggs while cooking, the way to fry eggs is to adjust the heat so that they cook evenly and then flip each side.
Fried eggs are eaten with rice, or sandwiched in delicious slices of bread - Photo: veganhuggs
From these 5 popular methods, you can combine ingredients to create many delicious egg dishes for a simple and nutritious breakfast.
Each method of preparing eggs offers a distinct culinary experience and can be customized to suit individual preferences and needs.
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