Lemony pasta with poached eggs

Our lemony pasta with poached eggs is a low cost, comforting, delicious vegetarian dinner, which you can throw together without too much hassle. High in fibre and iron with a gluten free option.

Serves: 4
Time to make: 25 mins

Total cost: $ 13.44 / $ 3.36 per serve

(at time of publication)

Ingredients

300g spaghetti or spaghettini pasta
1 head broccoli or 2 bunches broccolini, trimmed
4 eggs
2 cups rocketarugulaX, trimmed, shredded
½ cup slivered almonds, lightly toasted
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 lemon, zest and juice

Instructions

1 Cook spaghetti following packet directions, adding broccoli for the last 2 minutes of cooking. Drain.

2 Meanwhile, to poach eggs bring 5cm water to a rapid boil in a large frying pan, turn off heat and carefully break eggs directly into the water (it’s important to break the eggs at the water’s surface). Cover pan with a tight-fitting lid and leave eggs to cook undisturbed for 3 minutes or until eggs are opaque. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on a paper towel. Trim edges.

3 Add rocket, almonds, oil, lemon zest and 2 tablespoons lemon juice to pasta. Toss to combine and season with black pepper. Divide pasta among bowls and top each with a poached egg.