Soft Scrambled Eggs with Broccoli Microgreens
The everyday one. Ten minutes, four ingredients, and the recipe that turns a tray of microgreens from an occasional treat into something you use before work.
Grown on Johns Island · Delivered from James Island · Across the Lowcountry
Why broccoli works here
Broccoli microgreens are the mildest thing we grow, which makes them the one you can add to breakfast without thinking about whether it fits. They also cost $5 a clamshell, so this is the cheapest possible way to find out whether microgreens are for you.
Ingredients
- •4 eggs
- •1 tbsp butter
- •A splash of milk or cream (optional)
- •A generous handful of broccoli microgreens
- •Salt and black pepper
- •Buttered sourdough toast, to serve
Method
- Beat the eggs properly – 30 seconds until there are no streaks of white left. Season them now, not later.
- Melt the butter in a non-stick pan over LOW heat. Low is the whole technique. If the butter sizzles, the pan is too hot.
- Pour in the eggs and leave them 20 seconds, then start moving them slowly with a spatula, pulling the set curds in from the edge.
- Keep going for 5 to 6 minutes. They will look underdone and slightly loose right before they are perfect – take them off then, because they carry on cooking in the pan.
- Slide them onto the toast, then scatter the broccoli microgreens over the top off the heat.
- Crack pepper over and eat immediately.
Notes from the farm
- Never add the greens to the pan. Eggs are cooked at a temperature that destroys a microgreen in about two seconds.
- Kale microgreens are the swap if you want something with a bit more body. Radish if you want the eggs to have a kick.
- Whatever you do, do not do this on high heat and then wonder why the eggs are rubbery.
Questions
Can I cook microgreens into the eggs?
No. They collapse instantly and turn to nothing. Every microgreen goes on after the pan, without exception – the only ones that survive any heat at all are sunflower and pea shoots, and only for a few seconds.
Which microgreen is best on eggs?
Broccoli, because it is mild enough to disappear into the dish rather than take it over. Kale is the second choice. Radish works if you actively want heat at breakfast, which some people do.
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