Salad with Fried Soft Poached Egg
Salad with Fried Soft Poached Egg This is an updated, reenactment of a salad I did some years ago. Topping a salad with a soft poached egg is not new. Breading that soft poached egg and deep frying it adds a whole other dimension to the idea. This salad was influenced by what a few chefs were doing with the idea of breaded fried egg on top of salad. Often times, the egg was soft poached in a pouch of plastic wrap. Sometimes it had an Asian influence by being marinated for a time period in soy. Most of the time, the egg was breaded in fine bread crumbs. I never played with the Asian influence idea even though I like it And I chose to use Panko breadcrumbs because I really like the crunch when they are used on a fried items. The egg for this salad was poached in the traditional manner. I like the shape better. The egg was poached and then shocked in an ice water bath to stop the cooking process. To fry the egg, it was breaded using a traditional breading s