Poached Eggs a la Sagarika

I watched 'Julie and Julia (2009)' a few days ago. Like Julia (Amy Adams to the ignorant souls) I, too, am an avid cook and love to create or re-create recipes at my own discretion. When I watched her poaching an egg, I was like, "How come I've never eaten a poached egg before?" So, the very day next I went to this amazing resto-lounge near my college, Aroma's, that has a great variety of food and ordered a 'poached egg'. I kind of liked it, too.

That day I decided to try my hand at poaching. Now, the movie mentions that Julia Child said that the eggs must be fresh and the recipe book asked for a high skillet. I don't have either.

We get two kinds of eggs here. First is regular broiler variety that are factory grown, large size eggs with huge yolks but less whites. Or there is the local farmer (Gavraan) variety with less yolk but quite a bit of white and costs about 1.5 times the regular variety. Though I am not into Calorie-Counting or any other kind of health eating, but I love egg whites, so I decided to go with the Gavraan eggs.

Firstly, I boil water in a regular vessel on high flame. Adding a pinch of salt to the water works wonders. For Dummies (like me) who want to poach an egg, here's an easy tip: There's no shame in admitting that you cannot break an egg with one hand. Break the egg in a bowl; use one bowl for one egg, thats easier and a lot less messy. Keeping the flame high, gently tilt the bowl (with egg) in the vessel. For more than one egg, immediately add the second egg, or you will end up over/under cooking one of them (Experience, they say, comes only after you need it). Now, here's the most important part. Don't shut off the stove. Using a slotted spoon, spoon out the eggs, onto the plate.

I liked poached eggs, but my mom hated it. After poaching eggs 2 daily for 5 days in a row, I can safely say that I have no intentions of poaching eggs for a long time. Now, I have moved on to 'Scrambled Egg a la Sagarika'