Lucy’s Poached egg brunch on bed of Bulgar wheat & wilted spinach

 

• 1 teasp of butter
• 1 shallot
• 1 chilli (or less according to level of heat you like)
• 1 teasp ground turmeric
• 1 or 2 garlic cloves as per your liking
• Sea salt, black ground pepper
• Big Fistful of spinach
• 1 slice of porridge bread or a ½ cup of bulgar wheat (already prepared) or brown rice
• 1 egg or protein of choice

Set out all of the above ingredients

Put a full cup of boiling water into a pot and return to the boil

Add a quarter cup of bulgar wheat into the water, stir,  return to the boil then immediately turn to a low simmer, cover & simmer gently

OR Use precooked bulgar wheat for convenience

 

Finely chop your shallot, garlic cloves & chilli

Wash your spinach, & roughly chop

Put the kettle on to boil for your poached egg

Crack open your egg into a small bowl ready to slicde into your pot of near boiling water

Measure out turmeric

 

Put egg on to simmer gently to poach for 3 minutes

Melt butter or oil on pan

Add chopped shallot, chilli, turmeric, garlic, salt & pepper, sweat gently for a minute

Add spinach or any veg of choice, wilt or soften gently, towards the end add in bulgar wheat to reheat, keep separate or mix together on pan

Plate up bulgar wheat, topped with spinach, topped with poached egg

Season with black pepper and sea salt

ENJOY

Vary the ingredients you use with this flavour

Eggs, mackerel, smoked salmon, herring

Spinach, kale, asparagus

Bulgar wheat, brown rice or porridge bread