Surprise your loved one with a Poached Egg Tartine for breakfast

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and what can be better than surprising your favourite person with a hearty breakfast and a hot cuppa. They will not only love it, but will also be an amazing, wholesome meal to start their day with a bang!

Executive chef of Cafe Calma, Chef Ashish Das, shares his recipe of a Poached Egg Tartine which will make for the perfect breakfast to sum up the love week. 

• Ingredients
• Slice of multigrain sourdough (toasted)
• Smoked Atlantic Salmon
• Homemade orange marmalade
• Poach egg 
• Hollandaise sauce

Method

• To make the orange marmalade, mix orange zest, orange pieces and sugar in a saucepan.
• Bring the mixture to a boil and let it simmer for 5-7 minutes. Switch off the flame and let it cool. 
• Alongside, poach an egg. In a pan, boil water and vinegar mix (2:1) and reduce to simmer. Crack an egg in the simmering water.
• Allow the egg to cook for 3-4 minutes with firm white and soft runny yolk. Remove eggs from the water and serve immediately.
• And finally, to make the Hollandaise sauce, take egg yolks and a teaspoon of tarragon reduction in a bowl. Place the bowl on a double boiler and whisk the yolks by adding clarified butter till it emulsifies. Finish it off with a squeeze of lemon.

To assemble

• Take a slice of multigrain sourdough and toast it lightly with butter.
• Spread some of the orange marmalade on the slice.
• Place smoked salmon on top of the marmalade.
• Place poached egg on top of salmon.
• Finish it off with hollandaise on the egg and garnish with microgreens.