Changua
The Bogotá breakfast: milk let down with water and brought to the boil, eggs poached whole in it, spring onion and stale bread.
Photo : Jorvato · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- 15 min
- Total
- 20 min
- Serves
- 2
- Difficulty
- Easy
Method
- Tear the stale bread into pieces and divide it between two deep bowls.
- Pour the milk and water into a wide pan, add the white parts of the spring onions and the salt.
- Bring to the boil over medium heat and watch it, as milk climbs fast. Drop the heat at the first bubbles.
- Crack the eggs one at a time into a cup, then slide them onto the surface of the simmering liquid without disturbing them.
- Give them 3 minutes for a runny yolk, 5 for a set one. The white gathers around the yolk instead of drifting off.
- Lift two eggs into each bowl over the bread, pour the milky broth around them and scatter over the onion greens and coriander. Grind on pepper.
Straight milk would curdle the white and mute the flavour, so half water lowers the protein content and lets the egg poach clean. Some Bogotá households swap the bread for almojábanas, small cheese rolls.
