Smoked Salmon with Poached Eggs

I tried 6 times to get the perfect egg, thankfully I love eggs, because I made myself and everyone else eat it. This recipe was inspired by me waking up one day and deciding it was time to make my house into a cafe.

Here is what you need:

1. A deep pot such that you can swirl the water around

2. 4-6 eggs, depending on how many people are eating

3. Slices of toast

4. A mesh sieve

5. Smoked salmon, 1-2 slices per person

6. Optional toppings: pepper, salt, scallions

Steps

1. Heat the water until it’s boiling

2. Take the eggs out of the fridge

3. Toast your bread slices

4. Chop your scallions finely

5. Prep pepper, salt and a flat spatula as well as a fine mesh sieve

6. Crack the eggs into a bowl, crack them on top of the mesh sieve and whatever is left in the sieve that will go into your pot later on.

7. Once the water is boiling, swirl it around with a long scoop/chopstick and once it is swirling, GENTLY tip the bowl containing the egg (s) into the middle of the swirl

8. The egg should start to cook in the middle of the pot, when it is done to the desired level, scoop it up with the scoop or mesh sieve.

9. While the egg is spinning in the pot, remove your toast slices, add your smoked salmon to it

10. Once the egg is removed from the pot, place it immediately onto the toast and add your garnish!

Some extra tips (from rounds of failure!)

1. The deeper the pot, the better, because you can swirl the water around without spilling (maybe Im just truly inexperienced haha)

2. Don't drop the egg into the middle of the swirling water vortex with a PLOMB, carefully put the bowl or ladle near the water then drop it in, the reason is because dropping it in tends to allow the yolk to drop in first and then the shape of the egg looks like a meteor decided to plop onto your smoked salmon.