Do you brunch? We don’t often, but on special occasions we love a leisurely brunch on a Saturday morning. Here’s a little menu we created for you with our friend Shelly of Vegetarian Ventures. It turned out so lovely and colorful that we forgot it was the middle of winter! This would be a perfect for a Valentine’s Day brunch, or any special morning. This poached eggs and potatoes recipe is the main dish of our brunch menu, and man was it good. The sweet potatoes and red potatoes have a savory sweet vibe that’s addictingly good. Keep reading for the eggs and potatoes recipe: which works as a simple dinner recipe too!
How to make poached eggs and potatoes
It’s fairly common that Alex and I will do “brinner”: that is, breakfast for dinner! And this eggs and potatoes recipe is exactly what we crave: sweet potatoes and red potatoes that are roasted until crisp, then topped with an ooey gooey egg yolk. The yellow yolk spills out of the white, creating a sort of sauce for the entire dish. It’s so, so good: and of course it’s perfect for brunch too! But you’ll more often see Alex and I making this for dinner fare. This poached eggs and potatoes recipe is a play on a potato hash using two types of potatoes: sweet potatoes and red potatoes. The contrast of the two makes for a perfect savory and sweet combination. To make the potatoes, you simply roast them both in a very hot oven, drizzled with a bit of olive oil and kosher salt. It makes for the perfect crispy potato and you don’t have to spend hours slaving over the stove. Top it with a poached egg, and you’re in heaven. See below for our poached egg recipe!
A special brunch menu
For this brunch menu, the theme was a wintery morning, since we created it for Valentine’s Day. However, many of the items on this menu work any time of the year! The poached eggs and potatoes is the main dish, accompanied by our bright pink blood orange sparkling water. Shelly contributed the muffins recipe with compound butter, which was the perfect match. It all works together beautifully! Below is our menu. We suggest making the muffins the night before for easy preparation on the day of. Then roast the potatoes, make the water and coffee, and finish it off with the eggs.
Two-Potato Hash with Poached Eggs Blood Orange and Quinoa Muffins with Crystallized Ginger-Thyme Butter Sparkling Blood Orange Rosemary WaterCoffee
Many thanks to Shelly for the idea of collaborating on this menu! She’s located just an hour away from us, so it’s great to be able to cook together in person. Check out her blog Vegetarian Ventures – her photography and recipes are out of this world! And she just posted about our time together as well over on her website, here.
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This recipe is…
Vegetarian and gluten-free. No reviews
