A delicious florentine eggs with spinach recipe. The eggs are still a bit soft, with fresh spinach and a delicious Mornay sauce.
A delicious brunch recipe: Florentine eggs. The eggs are cooked until they're slightly soft. The spinach is blanched and after that the veggies are placed with the eggs in a casserole. A delicious homemade Mornay sauce (with butter, egg yolk and crème fraîche) is the topping. A classic recipe from the French Kitchen.
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Recipe Florentine eggs with
spinach
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Florentine eggs with spinach
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- pinch salt
- 300 grams spinach
- 60 grams butter unsalted
- 40 grams cheese matured, grated
For the Mornay sauce
- 1 ounce butter unsalted, 2 tablespoons
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 240 ml milk cold
- salt and pepper
- 1 egg yolk
- 80 ml crème fraîche
- 30 grams cheese matured, grated
Instructions
- Heat a pan of salted water to the boil.
- Add six eggs and bring the water back to a boil.
- Then boil the eggs for 5 minutes.
- Peel the eggs under cold running water (let the shell peel easier) and set aside .
- Bring a second pan of salted water to the boil.
- Meanwhile, wash the spinach thoroughly.
- When the water boils, add the spinach .
- At the time the water boils again, you get the spinach out quickly and transfer it into a bowl of cold water so that the cooking process stops.
Mornay sauce
- Take the butter and melt.
- Make a sauce by adding the flour and stir with a whisk for about 1 minute carefully so that the flour remains white, doesn't brown and won't burn.
- Add the milk and bring to a boil.
- Mix the egg yolk and crème fraïche in a seperate bowl.
- When the sauce thickens add the egg mixture, and cook for about 1 minute.
- Remove from heat and mix in the cheese. Season with salt and pepper .
- Preheat the grill.
- Add 60 grams of butter in a pan, melt, add spinach and cook the spinach until it is completely depleted.
- Bring it to taste with salt and pepper.
- Put the spinach in a baking dish and level it.
- Divide the eggs on top and pour the Mornay sauce over it.florentijnse eieren
- Sprinkle with the grated cheese and put it under the grill for about 10 minutes (check now and then, the cheese should be brown but not burnt).
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