Definition

1. Noun:
   • An egg cooked without its shell in gently simmering water: A poached egg is prepared by cracking a raw egg into a pot or pan of water that is hot but not boiling vigorously, allowing the white to coagulate around the yolk, resulting in a soft, tender texture.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • For breakfast, she ordered a poached egg on toast.
  • The recipe calls for a perfectly cooked poached egg with a runny yolk.
  • He finds it difficult to make a poached egg without the white spreading too much in the water.

Advanced Usage

• "to poach an egg": The verb phrase describing the action of cooking an egg in this manner.
  • Can you teach me how to poach an egg properly?
• Serving Contexts: A poached egg is commonly served on dishes like eggs Benedict, salads, grain bowls, or simply on buttered toast.
  • The salad was topped with a warm poached egg.

Variants and Related Words

• Poach (verb): The cooking method from which the term is derived.
  • You can poach fish in a court-bouillon as well.
• Eggs Benedict (noun phrase): A classic dish featuring a poached egg on an English muffin with ham and hollandaise sauce.

Synonyms

• There are no direct single-word synonyms for this specific cooked egg preparation. It is described by the cooking method: .

Related Phrases

• "sunny-side up egg": An egg fried on one side without flipping, with a runny yolk.
• "soft-boiled egg": An egg cooked in its shell in boiling water, resulting in a firm white and soft yolk.
• "over-easy egg": A fried egg that is flipped to cook briefly on both sides, with a runny yolk.

Idioms

• No common idioms specifically feature the term "poached egg."

Noun

1. egg cooked in gently boiling water