OK so you may be wondering what the heck a steamed egg is. Think of is as the poached eggs fast, easy sister. My dad is kind of the poach/soft boil master so when I was little I would get a soft boiled egg in my special blue egg cup. For special occasions he would poach eggs until one day in a fit of mad genius he came up with the idea of steam cooking eggs. What you are left with is a perfectly runny egg yolk with NO egg boogies. I don't think that is the technical term for under cooked whites surrounding the yolk but that is what I am going with!
This is really simple. Take a frying pan that you have a tight fitting cover for. Add enough water to cover the bottom of the pan completely. Turn the heat to high and add 1/2 tbsp of salted butter. Bring water and butter to a rapid boil. Add 1 large egg and cover. Reduce heat to medium and steam for 1 minute. After one minute, remove the lid and voila!
Perfectly cooked egg every time!!! You can adjust the cook time on the egg for harder cooked yolk. What you have here is a nice cross between a soft boiled egg and a poached egg. This is a beautiful, ridiculously simple and impossible to screw-up thing!
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