Dinner Tonight: Fava Bean Salad with Toast and Poached Egg

Name: Dinner Tonight: Fava Bean Salad with Toast and Poached Egg
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 170 grams bacon, chopped; 59 milliliters basil leaves, chopped; 4 slices thick slices country bread; 227 grams cherry tomatoes; 4 larges eggs; 1 kilograms fava beans in the shell, shelled; 473 milliliters sweet green peas; 59 milliliters mint leaves, chopped; 2 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil; 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar; 4 servings Salt and pepper; 2 Tbsps unsalted butter

Dinner Tonight: Fava Bean Salad with Toast and Poached Egg might be just the side dish you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains roughly 40g of protein, 34g of fat, and a total of 796 calories. This recipe serves 4. A mixture of eggs, fava beans in the shell, coun

Instructions

Bring a medium-sized saucepan halfway full of water to boil.

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Add the fava beans and cook for one minute.

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Remove with a slotted spoon, and rinse under cold water in a colander. Peel the skins off the fava beans, and then return to the boiling water. Cook until slightly tender, about two minutes.

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Drain in the colander and set aside. Refill the medium-sized saucepan halfway up with water, add the vinegar, and return it to the stove top. Turn heat to medium and bring to a gentle boil.

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Meanwhile, add the bacon to a large cast-iron skillet set over medium-low heat. Cook until the fat has rendered and bacon is crispy, about seven minutes.

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Remove with a slotted spoon, and drain the bacon on paper towels.

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Turn the heat to medium and add the as many of the slices of bread as will fit in one layer. Cook each until lightly browned on the bottom, and then flip and cook until lightly browned on the other side.

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Remove bread and set aside. Repeat process with any remaining slices of bread.

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Wipe out the skillet, and then add 1 ½ teaspoons of the olive oil. Turn heat medium, and when oil is shimmering, add the fava beans. Cook until lightly browned, stirring occasionally, one to two minutes.

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Remove the fava beans and set aside in a bowl.

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Add the remaining olive oil to skillet, and add the cherry tomatoes. Cook over medium heat until tomatoes are softened, one to two minutes.

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Remove the tomatoes from the skillet and transfer to the bowl with the fava beans.

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Keep heat on medium, and add the butter. Once it has melted, add the peas. Cook until tender, one to two minutes.

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Transfer to the bowl with the fava beans and tomatoes. Season this mixture with salt and pepper, and add the mint and basil. Stir well.

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Divide the slices of bread and the fava bean mixture between four plates.

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Reduce the heat on the medium-sized saucepan to medium-low. One at a time, crack an egg into a shallow dish and then add to the simmering water. Cook the eggs until the whites just hold together, but the yolks are still runny, about three minutes.

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