Start your day with a healthy breakfast beans with poached eggs recipe. This easy-to-make dish features butter beans and tomatoes, seasoned to perfection, and topped with poached eggs. Discover how to create this wholesome breakfast with simple tips, substitutions, and variations to suit your taste.
Good morning loves!
To start a new day in a good way is always a win. A healthy, nutritious, easy breakfast recipe could make or break your day. And this wonderful breakfast beans with poached eggs dish is everything you need for your brilliant weekend start.
I am a massive fan of the vibrant and aromatic shakshuka. Wonderfully poached eggs in tomato sauce eaten with crispy sourdough bread. What not to like? This recipe is a twist on the original.
I used a traditional tomato base but for additional nutrition, I added beans that elevate this humble dish. As the last addition, I finished the meal in the oven, giving you some time to work on anything else.
Let’s not waste any more time and dive into this breakfast beans with poached eggs recipe.
Tips on How to Make the Best Breakfast Beans with Poached Eggs
To make this recipe you don’t need any culinary skills and even a completely newbie will be able to create an extraordinary dish. But to give you some confidence, here are a couple of tips:
- Fresh Ingredients: Use fresh, ripe tomatoes for the best flavour (I recommend using cherry tomatoes for the best aroma and Isle of Weight tomatoes are my always top choice). Canned tomatoes can be an option, however, double-check with your seasoning.
- Properly Season: Don’t be shy when it comes to adding salt, pepper, and mixed herbs. Seasoning is key to bringing out the rich flavours of the beans and tomatoes.
- Perfect Eggs: finishing the dish in the oven is the easiest way to make the perfect poached eggs. However, timing is everything. Depending on how you like your eggs made it could take from 10 to 20 minutes in the oven.
- Garnish Generously: add a drizzle of this wonderful parsley oil to your prepared dish to finish it up and elevate the test.
Breakfast Beans with Poached Eggs: Recipe Substitutions and Variations
I hope that by now, you understand that all the recipes can be changed and adapted. You can easily swap one ingredient to another or add anything additional. Just don’t be afraid and play with it.
Just to give you some inspiration here are some variations for this recipe:
- Beans: If you don’t have butter beans, you can use any type of beans like cannellini or kidney beans.
- Tomatoes: Substitute fresh tomatoes with canned diced tomatoes if needed or even passata.
- Herbs: Fresh herbs like basil or thyme can replace the mixed dried herbs for a fresher taste.
- Eggs: For a different take, try topping the beans with a fried or scrambled egg instead of poached.
- Additional Veggies: Feel free to add in other vegetables like spinach, bell peppers, or mushrooms to increase the nutrient content.
If you are looking for more delicious breakfast recipes here are some additional meals:
French Toast with Caramelised Bananas
Mini Banana Pancakes
Spanish Omelette with Poached Egg
Apple Pancakes with Walnuts
Curd Pancakes with Nuts and Mascarpone Cheese
Recipe
Ingredients
Beans:
4 beef tomatoes
1 tin butter beans
2 garlic cloves
1 teaspoon mixed hers
Salt and pepper
Eggs:
4 eggs
Parsley
Lemon zest
Olive oil
Method
Make the dish:
- Preheat your oven to 200 degrees.
- Add the chopped tomatoes, butter beans, and minced garlic in a saucepan and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes. Season it with herb mix, salt and pepper.
- Transfer the beans to the baking dish. Make 4 wells and crack the eggs into them.
- Cook in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until you are happy with the eggs.
- Finely chop the fresh parsley. Add lemon zest, generous glogg of olive oil, salt and pepper. Mix everything.
- After your eggs are poached drizzle with parsley oil.
