Name: Fried Eggs on Spiced Sprouting Broccoli
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 675 g/1½ lb sprouting broccoli or spring greens; 2.5-4 cm/1-1½ in piece fresh ginger; 3 large cloves garlic; 1-2 fresh red chillies; 3 tablespoons groundnut oil; 50 g/2 oz butter; 2 heaped teaspoons ground coriander; 1 teaspoon cumin seeds; 3 tablespoons lemon juice; 4 large eggs; 1 teaspoon paprika; salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

About

This is wonderful if you can use young purple sprouting broccoli but, unless you grow it yourself, this lovely vegetable is sometimes hard to find these days. Otherwise use spring greens. Quickly made, this dish is lovely for supper or lunch, accompanied by good crusty bread.

Ingredients

675 g/1½ lb sprouting broccoli or spring greens
2.5-4 cm/

Method

Wash the broccoli or greens and cut off the lower stalks of the broccoli or the base of the greens. If using greens, slice them across thinly. Peel the ginger and garlic and chop them together finely. Cut open the chillies lengthways under running water, discard the seeds and stems and then slice the halves finely across.

Bring a saucepan of salted water to the boil, add the broccoli or