poached egg
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- /poʊtʃt ɛɡ/
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huevo pochado
- For breakfast, I ordered a salad with a perfectly cooked poached egg on top.
- poached egg on toast
- hash and poached eggs
- poached eggs with sauce
Rye bread, mashed avocado on top, poached egg and spinach.
- Rye bread, mashed avocado on top, poached egg and spinach.
- And so the first question that we have is what's healthier for most people, a poached egg or an egg fried in olive oil?
- So I love my eggs by the way, guys, you know, my poached eggs are definitely like top notch and people have asked me about them.
Examples
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I'll have the creamed spinach over poached eggs.
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I served it with poached eggs on salad with a vinaigrette.
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With a poached egg on top, please.
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I will have poached eggs.
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How about some poached eggs?
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And I'm also having two poached eggs on one piece of toast.
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I went for the poached eggs on sourdough with tomatoes.
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Poached eggs on toast, spinach, and a baked apple.
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Leon ordered corned beef hash and poached eggs.
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Simply put, changua is a poached egg in a milky broth, flavored with chopped scallions and sprigs of cilantro.
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Synonyms
An egg cooked gently in hot water without its shell
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Morphology
The meaning 'an egg cooked by simmering without its shell' is directly and compositionally derived from 'poached' (cooked by simmering in liquid) + 'egg'. This adjective+noun cooking term follows a transparent literal pattern and has close equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The term poached egg comes from a simple cooking picture: you crack an egg into gently hot water so the white wraps around the yolk and the egg becomes poached as it cooks without its shell. That's why poached egg means 'an egg cooked in hot water without its shell'.