I love eggs benedict and the steam oven is great for poaching eggs. So easy, you can get 12 perfect poached eggs (with runny yolks) from one muffin tray in 1½ minutes!
Now that I have come up with a way to cook hollandaise sauce in the steam oven the whole thing, including eggs will take about 10 minutes. Not bad for a fancy brunch dish that costs quite a bit at a café. Your friends will be impressed 🙂
Ingredients: Serves 6
12 room temperature free-range eggs
6 English muffins or sliced sourdough bread, toasted
200-400g shaved smoked ham or smoked salmon
Handful of baby rocket leaves
Snipped chives to serve
Hollandaise sauce:
2 egg yolks at room temperature
1 tbsp. lemon juice
140g unsalted butter, melted
Salt & pepper to taste
Method:
- Make hollandaise sauce from my instructions here.
- Cover the bowl and set aside in a warm place.
- Grease a 12 x muffin tin with melted butter. Break in eggs.
- Steam @ 100C for exactly 1½ minutes. You can read more about eggs here. This will give you set whites and the runny yolks that you want for this dish. 2 minutes will be a firmer yolk.
- While the eggs are cooking toast your bread and plate up with rocket, ham or salmon.
- Carefully remove eggs from muffin tin and place on top.
- Give your hollandaise a final whisk and spoon over a generous amount.
- Garnish with snipped chives and cracked pepper.
Yum, everyone will be coming to your place instead of that café!
Thank you for your time to do this site
Dear Trudy,
I am getting my combi steam oven next week (Siemens) and can’t wait to try your eggs benedict for an Easter brunch I’m having for 12 people. It has always been difficult to cook runny poached eggs for a crowd, invariably end up doing scrambles!!
Your blog is amazing. I can’t stop ready it although you must have a very efficient toaster to be able to get 12 muffins toasted whilst eggs are cooking !!!!
Love everything you write. I would happily pay for your site. Much needed.
Thanks.
Hi Jenny
Thank you for your email. I am glad you are enjoying my site!
Use the grill in your main oven for toasting. You will fit quite a few on the Siemens grill tray.
Test your egg timing before your brunch as I have had quite a few people struggle with eggs in Siemens.
Thanks for your comments, I will try to keep this site free for as long as possible
Hi, I have a Miele steam Combi. When you say steam at 100c for exactly 1 1/2 min, does that time start from the point of hitting ok? i.e. including the heat-up phase? I thought the timer on the steam function timer started when temp was hit, so do you mean tell the oven to do 1.30 min @100 and let the auto timing work?
Hi Tina,
Miele products require you to add a time. Not time delay, just immediate time. The time you set starts once the steam has reached its temperature so you should allow for this in foods that are very sensitive to cook like eggs, fish and shellfish. Other things are pretty forgiving for a few minutes extra.
So yes, set my temperatures & times for a cold oven and press OK to start.
Having said that the one exception seems to be in the combi cooking so you will notice on some of my recipes I ask you to preheat the oven first.
Regards Trudy