Wash the eggs, put them in a saucepan with cold water and put on the fire; for boiling soft-boiled, it is enough to wait 2-4 minutes after the water boils. Then put eggs under cold water and peel.
How to boil soft-boiled eggs
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Eggs – 5 pieces
Water – 1 liter
Salt – 1 tablespoon
Boiling soft-boiled eggs in a saucepan on the stove
- Put 5 eggs in a saucepan, pour 1 liter of cold water, add 1 tablespoon of salt and put the pan over medium heat.
- Cook for 3 minutes after boiling water.
- Cover the pan with a lid, leaving a small gap, then press the lid with a towel, drain the water in which the eggs were boiled.
- Pour cold water over eggs.
Boiling soft-boiled eggs in a slow cooker
Put eggs in the multicooker bowl and pour water so that it covers the eggs on top by 1 centimeter. Cooking time 5 minutes on the “Steam cooking” mode. Transfer the prepared hot eggs to a bowl and rinse with cold water.
Delicious facts
– Scrambled eggs serve in the shell by placing a warm egg on a special stand. It is necessary to free the top of the egg from the shell, so that it can be eaten with a spoon.
– A soft-boiled egg can be in multiple states: semi-liquid white and yolk (cooking time 2 minutes), soft (but not liquid) white and liquid yolk (cooking time 3 minutes), soft white and semi-liquid yolk (cooking time 4 minutes). The boiling time is indicated for eggs of the 1st category, the boiling time for smaller eggs should be reduced, and for large eggs – increased by 1 minute.
– Boil soft-boiled eggs on low heat, if heated too intensely, they will burst.
– For boiling eggs, do not take a large pan, the eggs should lie tightly one to the other, and not move along the bottom of the pan and not beat against each other.
– Eggs can not be immersed in cold water, but into boiling water using a tablespoon. To prevent the eggs from bursting, they must first be warmed up (immersed in hot water for 5 minutes) or the blunt end of the egg must be pierced (there is air that will leave the egg through the puncture, compensating for the increasing pressure).
– Calorie value 1 soft-boiled egg (50 grams) about 80 kcal. A soft-boiled egg is easily absorbed by the body – no more than 2 hours are spent on its digestion. Due to the high cholesterol content of egg yolk, it is not recommended to consume more than 5 eggs per week.
Check out the general rules for boiling chicken eggs!