Eggs Poached in Red Wine

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cooks Country: Modern British Rural Cooking

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

  • About

The red wine colours the eggs so the dish looks quite dramatic. This makes a great cold-weather supper dish.

Ingredients

  • 150 g bacon, cut into lardons
  • 150 g button mushrooms, cut in half
  • 1

Method

In a frying pan, fry the lardons, mushrooms and onion in the butter until all are golden. Pour in a glass of the red wine and reduce until virtually nothing. Add the stock and reduce by half. Reserve until later, keeping it warm.

Wash the spinach well, then put in a hot, dry saucepan with only the water clinging to its leaves. Season and heat until just wilted. Put to one side and keep