British

Boiled Egg and Soldiers

Name: Boiled Egg and Soldiers
Total time: 8 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 eggs; 4 slices sandwich bread; 2 tbsp butter; 1/4 tsp salt

Margaret @margaret_yorkshire

Boiled Egg and Soldiers is British home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

8 min Easy Halal Pescatarian Eggetarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 eggs
4 slices sandwich bread
2 tbsp butter
1/4 tsp salt

How to cook it

Bring a small pot of water to a boil and lower in the eggs.
Boil 5 minutes for a soft, runny yolk, then lift out and sit each egg in an egg cup.
Toast the bread until golden and spread with the butter.
Cut the toast into strips and slice the top off each egg.
Season with a little salt and dip the toast strips into the yolk to serve.

Watch how to cook Boiled Egg and Soldiers

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A British breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Boiled Egg and Soldiers, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something cool and fresh
- Brown Sauce
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Boiled Egg and Soldiers carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Boiled Egg and Soldiers
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Salad with New Potatoes
Gluten	Yes	Bubble and Squeak
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Bubble and Squeak
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 200 kcal
Protein: 9 g
Carbs: 15 g
Fat: 12 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 350 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Boiled Egg and Soldiers takes about 8 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.