🥘 Carole’s PSB with boiled eggs and anchovies…

🥘  2  🍽 Serves 2   🛒 12 ingredients ⏱ 40 minutes V LC €4

Broccoli, anchovies and hard boiled eggs combined with chilli’s, mustard and croutons make this is a lovely main meal salad.

Ingredients:

• Ciabatta / Sourdough / Baguette
• Olive oil
• 500g purple sprouting (or tender-stem) broccoli 
• 4 large free-range eggs, (at room temperature) 
• 2 tablespoons Dijon or wholegrain mustard 
• 1 tbsp white wine vinegar 
• 1 pinch of caster sugar 
• 2 large cloves of garlic, peeled and thinly sliced
• 6-8 marinated anchovies, torn in half
• 1 fresh red chilli 

First, make your croutons

• 60g leftover ciabatta, sourdough or baguette, torn into bitesize chunks 
• 1 tbsp olive oil

Step by step:

1. Make your croutons, tear the bread into bite-sized pieces. Heat the olive oil in a large non-stick frying pan over a medium-high heat. Once hot, tip in the bread and toss well to coat in the oil. Cook gently for 5 to 10 minutes, or until crisp and golden. Tip them onto a plate, then wipe out the pan with kitchen paper and set them aside. 

2. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil, then add the broccoli and cook until just tender (about 5 minutes for purple sprouting or 3 minutes for tender-stem). Fill a bowl with cold water, then lift the broccoli from the pan and into the cold water to cool. Keep the pan of water on the hob. 

3. Gently lower the eggs into the pan of boiling water and simmer for 6 minutes, or until they are just soft in the middle. Drain and set aside.

4. Tip the broccoli into a colander, then cool the eggs in a fresh bowl of cold water for a few minutes. 

5. Next, combine 1 tablespoon of oil with the mustard, vinegar and sugar, plus 1 tablespoon of cold water and a little seasoning to make the dressing. Peel, then halve the eggs.

6. Peel and thinly slice the garlic, tear up the anchovies and trim and finely chop the chilli.

7. Put 1 tablespoon of oil in the frying pan, place over a medium heat and fry the garlic for 30 seconds. Add the drained broccoli and cook for 2 minutes over a high heat, until starting to colour.

8. Spread the broccoli over a platter, then add the eggs, croutons and anchovies. Scatter with the chilli, drizzle over the dressing and serve.