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Eggs Florentine with roasted portabello mushroom
Traditional Eggs Florentine are prepared with spinach and poached eggs, topped with creamy hollandaise sauce on a portabello mushroom.
A classic Eggs Florentine recipe is typically made with a toasted English muffin topped with spinach, a poached egg, and a silky hollandaise sauce. This recipe, compliments of South African Mushroom Farmers’ Association, swaps the muffin for a meaty portobello mushroom.
Ingredients
Eggs Florentine
- 4 large portabello mushrooms
- 2 garlic cloves crushed into a paste
- 200 g swiss chard roughly chopped
- 100 g smoked salmon or trout
Hollandaise
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 tsp water
- 2 lemon juiced freshly squeezed
- 115 g butter
- 1 pinch of salt
To serve
- fresh chives chopped
- lemon wedges
- salt and pepper to taste
- olive oil for cooking
Method
For the mushrooms
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Preheat the oven to 200°C.
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Place the mushrooms on a baking tray.
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Drizzle with olive oil, brush with garlic and season well with salt and pepper.
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Bake for ± 10 minutes until tender.
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Meanwhile, heat another drizzle of olive oil in a medium-sized pan.
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Add the swiss chard and sauté just until the chard has wilted.
For the poached eggs:
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Bring a pot of water to a boil.
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Reduce the heat to a gentle simmer.
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Crack eggs, one at a time, into separate bowls.
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Swirl the water into a gentle vortex.
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Gently slip the eggs one by one into the boiling water.
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Cook for about 3 minutes each for soft poached eggs.
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Using a slotted spoon, scoop the poached eggs out of the water and place on paper towel to drain.
For the hollandaise
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Find a jug that snugly fits the head of a stick blender.
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Combine the egg yolks, water, lemon juice and a pinch of salt in the bottom of the jug.
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Melt butter in a small saucepan over high heat, until bubbling.
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Remove from the heat.
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Place the head of the stick blender into the bottom of the cup and turn it on.
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With the blender constantly going, slowly drizzle the hot butter into the jug.
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Continue pouring until you have used all the butter and the sauce is thick and emulsified.
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Taste to adjust seasoning.
To assemble
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Divide the chard equally on top of the portabello mushrooms.
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Follow with the salmon, a squeeze of lemon juice then top each with a poached egg.
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Spoon over the hollandaise sauce and sprinkle with chives, salt and pepper.



