Poached Eggs with Roasted Tomatoes is an exquisite little breakfast. And believe it or not, you can do nearly everything days in advance.
Poached Eggs with Roasted Tomatoes
Course: Breakfast12
servingsYou can scale this recipe down to make even a single serving.
Ingredients
1 dozen eggs
1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes
Herb-infused or unflavored olive oil
Salt and pepper
12 slices of best-quality, farmhouse bread
Butter, softened
Crispy bacon, for serving (optional)
Directions
- Multitask these directions in their proper order, overlapping the work as you go:
- Preheat a sous vide with a 4-inch depth of water to 167°F. Use a Chinese spider (or the like) to quickly-but-gently lower the eggs into the water. Sous vide for 12 minutes. Move the eggs to a sink filled with several inches of cold water. Let them sit there for 1 minute. Move to a folded tea towel to dry off.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F. Place the tomatoes on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle them with oil. Make sure to hit all the tomatoes, or toss them about so that they all get a bit of oil. Season lightly. Bake for 20 minutes. Taste for seasoning.
- Toast and butter the bread. If necessary, keep the toast in the oven that’s off, but still warm from having roasted the tomatoes.
- Submerge serving plates in very hot water, drying them off completely as you use them. Place two or three tomatoes on each slice of buttered bread. Lightly (and carefully, because they will spurt) mash them down with a butter knife or fork. Crack a poached egg over each slice of tomatoed toast. Lightly season. Serve immediately (with bacon).
Social Learning
Although you can scale this recipe down to make as little as a single serving, I recommend that you consider roasting the entire pint of tomatoes, and poach at least six of the eggs. You can keep poached eggs – still in their uncracked shells – in the fridge for days, and you can reheat them by simply soaking them in very hot tap water. That’ll get you a great little breakfast as you’re getting ready for work, or a luxurious addition to a salad of hearty greens. The tomatoes will make an excellent pasta or soup garnish, a nice accompaniment to anything from fish to steak, or a simple, tasty, little snack on their own.
For the tomatoes, if you have an infused oil, use it. An added bit of flavor there will be wonderful in the finished dish.
Best-quality bread will really make this dish special. You want something substantial, which I why I call for farmhouse. Any dense, country-style loaf will work. Preferably a whole unsliced loaf, so you could slice medium-thick slices.
The Backstory
This is a simple little recipe, for sure, but don’t underestimate it. How often do you have a lovely little hot breakfast at home? There’s something about the poached eggs that makes it charming and sophisticated.
With the right touches, it can rise to Hallmark movie quality: you have a crowd of overnight holiday guests. You throw open the fridge to find poach the eggs and roasted tomatoes. Who knows how they got there, since you seem to have spent the previous few days doing nothing but Christmas shopping, charity work, and coaching your nephew’s competitive snowman-building squad. You hang out in the kitchen, in impossibly adorable pajamas and a Santa hat, holding a huge mug of coffee with two hands, as your house guests wander into the kitchen one or two at a time with bleary eyes. You easily set their breakfast in front of them in five to ten breezy minutes. Amp it up with cocoa by the cup, and maybe some fresh fruit that you somehow manage to just have on hand, although no one ever saw you buy or prep it. “I mean, poached eggs and roasted tomatoes? I don’t know why he’s still single.” That’s what they’re all saying when you step out of the room to see who’s at unexpectedly at the door at this early hour.
And who’s at the door? Why it’s that guy from high school who moved away to the big city right after graduation. He apparently has some high-pressured job, although it looks like he spends most of his time shopping for clothes, going to the gym, and styling his hair. You’d heard he’d come home for the holidays to help his ailing grandmother who is struggling to manage her puppy adoption business. What? His car is stuck in the snow? And he’s not wearing snow boots? You invite him in, he sees this amazing scene you’ve set, and after one bite of the poached egg and roasted tomato toast, he starts to see you in a whole new light…
Wait a minute, is this a gay Hallmark movie? Uh-oh.
Poached Eggs with Roasted Tomatoes
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Simply beautiful. Or, beautifully simple!
Both!
Your simple recipe really comes to light when told in the context of your house guests! Your visitor from your old high school might actually move in if he really likes your poached egg dish! When I make poached eggs, I do the usual swirling the pan of warm water with a whisk (with a little added vinegar), then dropping in the raw eggs. Merry Christmas!
Thanks, Fran! True enough, that is a skill any cooking Jedi must master.
Simple and beautiful Jeff. A great way to enjoy eggs and tomatoes.
Thanks, Gary!
Magnificent!
Thank you!
A simple but very tasty breakfast!
Thanks, Angie!
Do you have a sous vide stick? Or just the Instant Pot? I am dying to try sous vide-ing in the instant pot but haven’t come across a recipe easy enough to give it a go. Having had many dishes with eggs and tomatoes, I can attest to the deliciousness factor of this recipe, even without trying it. But I will. I just need to get impossibly adorable pajamas. Now your movie sounds significantly more interesting than the typical Hallmark.
I have a stick. I have a large dedicated tub to sous vide in, but I can use any old pot, which is nice when I want to do small batches. Boneless, skinless chicken is a very easy way to start if you sauce it after sous viding, so that there’s no fuss over browning it. You could smother it in gochujang BBQ, or an Indian or Mexican sauce…
Bread, eggs, and tomatoes – what can be better for a hearty savoury breakfast? Perfection!
Thanks, Ben!
These look simply delicious Jeff. Love the backstory. How to romanticise simple poached eggs and tomatoes on toast, one of our favourite brekkies , and with bacon, however I don’t have a sous vide. You reinforce how important storytelling is with food.
Thanks, Pauline!
I love eggs on toast. I know I would love this egg on toast with added roasted tomatoes recipe. Delicious! Thanks Jeff. Hope you enjoy the festive holiday period!
Thanks, Neil!
Simple but certainly delicious. Hoping you are blessed peace, joy, and love this holiday season. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you, too, Judee!
I never thought to sous vide eggs and have poached eggs at the ready. I do think the house guest would see the host in an entirely new light…fun story.
Thanks, Karen!
This is the kind of breakfast I love: savory. While I can get into the occasional pancake, waffle, or French toast, something with tomatoes, buttered toast, and the like gets me salivating. This is the kind of breakfast I would happily have for dinner! And, by the way, love the whole gay Hallmark vibe. You had me sold on the plot!