How much to boil soft-boiled and hard-boiled eggs: useful tips

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Chicken egg is an indispensable product on the table of any Russian. And how many dishes can be prepared from them! Omelettes, scrambled eggs with different fillings, pancakes, cheesecakes, and just boiled eggs - all this is he althy and tasty. But few people know the rules and secrets of boiling eggs.

How to choose good eggs?

There are not many species of birds in the world whose eggs can be eaten by humans. Chicken and quail are the most delicious, nutritious and safe. Eating duck eggs, there is a high risk of contracting salmonella. Therefore, they are not found on store shelves. There are also ostrich eggs - they are very nutritious and have excellent taste properties, but in our latitudes they are considered exotic.

Choosing fresh chicken eggs is not easy, and even the most sophisticated housewives often buy expired goods. There is a special device - an ovoscope, at the request of the buyer, the seller is obliged to provide it to check the freshness of the eggs on the spot. The ovoscope allows you to examine the state of the yolk through the shell - whether it has leaked out.

Age and size directly affect how much to cook eggs after boiling. Fresh need less heatprocessing.

The bigger and heavier the egg, the older it is. By age and size, eggs are graded by category:

• C0 - selective canteens;
• С1 - the first dining category;
• C2 - respectively, the second dining room;
• D1 is the first dietary category.

Category affects how much to cook eggs after boiling. The larger they are, the longer the cooking should be. If you need to get a soft-boiled egg, then the time will decrease accordingly. But more on that below!

Hard boiled chicken eggs

Hard boiled - this means to a dense protein, loose yolk. This cooking method is usually chosen for salads (when they know that the boiled egg will need to be cut or grated).

How long to boil a hard boiled egg (time to leave them in boiling water):

• selective category - after boiling 12-13 minutes;
• С1 - 10-12 minutes;
• С2 - 8-10 minutes.

Don't overdo the boil time, this will change the taste properties, the yolk may begin to exude an unpleasant odor, the protein will lose amino acids if the heat treatment time is exceeded.

Every housewife knows how to boil hard boiled eggs. How many salads, snacks, pies you can cook with them! One of the most popular fillings for pies is chopped boiled eggs with green onions and dill.

Soft boiled chicken eggs

This cooking method is the mostretains all the useful properties of the product. The yolk contains zinc, iron, magnesium; when soft-boiled, these trace elements do not decompose, but will be successfully absorbed when eaten. Protein stores all essential amino acids.

How long to boil soft-boiled eggs depends on their size and freshness. As a rule, it takes exactly half the minutes than hard-boiled eggs.

Two easy ways to get delicious soft-boiled eggs:

• Immerse raw eggs with a tablespoon in already boiling water. We pinpoint 3-5 minutes. Then carefully, with the same spoon, we take them out and immerse them in a pre-prepared saucepan with ice (or just cold) water. This method will allow not only to preserve all the nutritional properties of chicken eggs, but also very easy to peel them from the shell. Literally in ten seconds. Due to the sharp temperature difference - from boiling water to ice water - the shell will be cleaned instantly.
• The usual way - put the eggs in a saucepan, pour water from the tap. We are waiting for the water to heat up. How long to cook eggs after boiling? Large - 4-5 minutes. The first-second categories - 2-3 minutes. Then it is advisable to pour cold water over the eggs, this will later make it easy to peel them from the shell.

Poached eggs

Despite the exquisite French name, there is nothing difficult to prepare. In Soviet times, this method of cooking was called "egg in a bag". It lies in the fact that it takes even less time to cook than if we decided to boil soft-boiled eggs. How many housewives cookpoached eggs for breakfast, this is a nutritious, dietary and he althy dish!

You don't even have to heat up the water or cook the pan. A poached egg can be cooked in two minutes in the microwave. We take a small container, fill it with water (200-250 ml). Gently break the raw chicken egg directly into the water (as if we were going to cook a fried egg). We put in the microwave and set the timer for 1.5-2 minutes. Enjoying a soft poached egg with runny yolk.

There is a simpler way: put a pot of water on the stove, bring to a boil. We break the egg into boiling water. How long to boil a poached egg? One minute will be enough.

Stuffed chicken eggs

Unusual and delicious cooking method:

• Pre-cook hard boiled eggs. How long it will take, we already know.
• We clean the cooled eggs from the shell. Cut in half.
• Knead the yolk thoroughly with a fork and add chopped greens and spices to this mass.
• Gently with a spoon, return the processed mass back to the protein halves.

French omelet

The perfect breakfast for people who follow a he althy diet.

• Crack a couple of eggs into a deep plate.
• Add 50-70 ml of milk (preferably low fat).
• S alt and spices - to taste. You can also add chopped greens, thin slices of sausage, slices of cheese. Whisk all ingredients thoroughly with a fork untilfoamy, homogeneous mass.
• Pour into a pre-heated non-stick pan, cover with a lid.
• After a couple of minutes you can enjoy the taste of an openwork, light omelet.

What is the difference between an omelet and a scrambled egg? First of all, by adding milk and toppings. Some people also prefer to add kefir, whey, fermented baked milk - this is a matter of individual preference. From the filling, you can choose vegetables (spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, green or onion, grated carrots), sausage, cheese, bacon, capers, tuna. Some people like s alted fish omelet (very unusual combination).

How long does it take to boil quail eggs?

A separate item worth mentioning is this relatively new product for Russians. Quail eggs look unusual and are more expensive than chicken ones. They are also much more useful: they contain zinc, magnesium, selenium, vitamin C, A. The protein of quail eggs is rich in essential amino acids, and there is practically no harmful cholesterol in the yolk.

Any experienced housewife can cook quail eggs. How much time does it take? Due to their tiny size, it only takes 2-3 minutes to hard-boil them. The yolk may remain slightly damp. If you need to get as hard as possible, then the time can be brought up to five minutes.

Quail eggs are used mainly for salads: "Caesar", "Vitamin", "Royal Olivier", "Squid", "Sea Breeze". In terms of taste, they go well with seafood,cream sauce, veal, chicken fillet, lettuce, broccoli. How long to boil eggs for salad? Given that they should be dense in texture - about 3-4 minutes in boiling water. Quail eggs are a real find for adherents of proper nutrition.

Biological value of chicken eggs

The calorie content of one medium-sized hard-boiled chicken egg is 160 kilocalories. Of these, about 14 grams of protein, 12 grams of protein, 0.5 grams of carbohydrates. When frying in vegetable oil, the proportion of fat increases significantly (for example, about 35-40 grams of fat per serving of fried eggs).

One hard-boiled egg contains about 530 mg of cholesterol. Therefore, doctors do not recommend that people with chronic diseases of the liver and gallbladder eat more than one egg per day.

But the almost complete absence of carbohydrates makes eggs the No. 1 product for losing weight. A constant excess of carbohydrates in the diet leads to obesity. So feel free to eat boiled eggs and don't worry about your figure!

One yolk contains about 50 micrograms of fluorine, 75 micrograms of copper, 29 micrograms of selenium, 2 mg of zinc, 2.5 mg of iron, 12 mg of magnesium. It is also rich in vitamins: 2 mg of vitamin E, 0.05 mg of carotene, 2.2 mcg of vitamin D, 0.14 mg of pyridoxine, 7 mg of folic acid.

What are fortified eggs?

In the last couple of years, an unusual product has appeared in all supermarkets. These are the so-called enriched eggs. At a cost they are slightly higher than the usual, "unenriched". The difference is that they containan increased amount of selenium, iodine and he althy polyunsaturated fats (Omega-3). At the same time, it contains much less harmful cholesterol (when compared with a standard first category chicken egg).

The process of making fortified eggs is no different from cooking regular ones. Doctors recommend paying attention to this product to people with thyroid diseases. Due to the high content of iodine, fortified eggs have a positive effect on metabolism and metabolic processes in the body.