Buttery greens & a poached egg served goat feta and za’atar

It’s eggs again……

I whipped up this little beauty for lunch the other day and though I should put up the recipe as I had so many requests on Instagram….so delicious and super quick to make.

It may be coming into mid winter here but my garden is the gift that keeps on giving…. so all greens for this dish we’re out of the garden - so lucky to have such fantastic soil here!

Za’atar is a beautiful aromatic Middle Eastern spice blend. You can buy it in the supermarket, but it’s super easy to throw together, so I’ve added below the blend I make and keep in the pantry at all times. It goes so well with many dishes, salads, roast vegetables, sprinkled over hummus (or other dips) and delicious with labneh, and is great as a rub for fish and meat, or add olive oil to use as a marinade.

I think it goes particularly well with eggs.

Prep time: about 5 mins Cook time: 5 mins Serves: 1

Ingredients

• Approximately 3 cups of fresh mixed greens - here i’ve used spinach, broccoli, rainbow silver beet (Swiss chard)

• 1/2 an onion

• 1 clove of garlic - crushed

• 1 or 2 eggs super fresh organic / free range / home grown (depending on how hungry your feeling)

• 1 tbls crumbled goats feta

• 1/2 tbls of butter

  for Za’atar:

• 1 tbls spoon of thyme (fresh or dried).

• 1 tbls spoon of cumin seeds

• 1 tbls of coriander seeds

• 1 tbls of sesame seeds

• 1/2 tsp of dried chilli flakes

• 1/2 tsp of Himalayan salt

Method

first make the Za’ztar - this can be made well ahead of time and kept in a glass jar

• Gently toast the cumin, coriander in a dry frying pan, once toasted allow to cool a little.

• Grind the spices in a pestle & mortar or spice grinder.

• Gently toast the sesame seeds

• Combine the spices, seeds, thyme, chilli flakes and salt and store in an air tight container

for the dish….

• Fill the kettle and boil the water for the poached eggs

• Melt the butter in a large pan over a medium heat

• Roughly chop the greens and add to the pan, and toss around to coat in butter

• add the water to the pan and poach the eggs (see my earlier post on the perfect poached eggs!)

• Once the greens are wilted, this will take about 5 minutes, arrange in a serving bowl / plate

• Scatter the crumbled feta over the greens

• Top with the poached egg & sprinkle with the Za’ztar

  Enjoy!