Scrambled eggs - soft and creamy, just as they should be!
Recipe video above. No one should tell you how to take your eggs. But everyone should know how to make scrambled eggs well! 60 seconds, soft, creamy, custardy. Perfection!Scrambled egg calories - 91 calories per egg (182 cal per serving of 2 eggs), including the butter.
Prep Time1 minutemin
Cook Time1 minutemin
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Western
Keyword: scrambled eggs
Servings: 2
Calories: 182cal
Author: Nagi
Ingredients
4eggs
2tbspmilk, any fat % (optional, Note 1)
1/4tspsalt
2grinds black pepper
1 tbsp / 15gbutter(or margarine or oil)
For serving:
4slicesbread, toasted & slathered with butter
Instructions
Use a non stick skillet or well seasoned cast iron pan (about 25cm / 10") and a rubber spatular (or flat edge wooden spoon).
Whisk together eggs, milk, salt and pepper.
Melt butter over medium heat (Note 1), then pour egg in.
Wait 5 seconds, then start leisurely pushing the rubber spatula back and forth in long strokes, and all around the skillet edges, to push the set egg out of the way and let raw egg run onto the skillet to cook. After 30 seconds or so, start adding some folding action too.
Cook for 60 seconds in total until you have a pile of soft, custardy scrambled egg folds ("curds") and no raw egg leaking on the edges of the pile.
Take it off the stove when it's still a bit undercooked for your taste.
Gently push /fold the eggs for another 10 seconds - it will finish cooking with residual pan heat - then slide onto hot toasted crusty bread slathered with butter.
Sprinkle with extra pepper then devour immediately! For a touch of garnish, look no further than an 80's style sprig of curly parsley. 👌🏻
Notes
1. Milk - optional, makes the eggs a bit more creamy but you can still make wonderful scrambled eggs without.Cream? Some people enjoy cream instead of milk - I find it unnecessarily rich but it's an option (same amount as milk - or halve).Water? With older eggs (as some grocery eggs can be) are already watery and added water can exacerbate the wateriness. Milk works better, more consistently.2. Homemade toastable bread options:
Stove heat - use medium low if your stove is strong/hot.
Use a smaller skillet if cooking less eggs. ~25cm/10" for 4 eggs, ~20cm/8" or less for 2 eggs.
Non stick or well seasoned cast iron skillet highly recommended for ease - eggs are the ultimate food glue.
Scrambled eggs should not be browned or crispy at all, it should be yellow and creamy all the way through.
DO NOT viciously stir around in circles, or zig zag frantically back and forth! This will create rough, "chopped up" dried scrambled eggs, rather than soft and creamy. Use gentle, leisurely strokes.
Use pushing / folding / turning motions with the rubber spatula so you get soft, creamy scrambled egg curds, rather than a raggedy chopped up dry pile of scrambled eggs.