Garlic and Coriander Soup with Poached Eggs and Croutons

This soup, another dish with a Portuguese influence, is one I can always rely on, as most of the ingredients will already be to hand at my house. I eat this soup at Alfaia, where they make it with water rather than stock, giving the garlic the duty of flavouring the broth, but I find that chicken stock elevates it to a whole new level, making for a rich, full, fragrantly deep soup with a flavour that can only come from a good stock. Then there is the coriander, which is one of the most comm