Hands up if you enjoy brunch as much as I do! The bare minimum for a great brunch in our house is strong coffee, bread, bacon and eggs. Throw in some avocado and I am in heaven.
Turning these simple yet tasty ingredients into the best open sandwiches ever does not require too much work and the key here is to get it right with your poached eggs. I have given you the method I have used for years in the recipe, but I recently spotted a great video by Jamie Oliver bout poached eggs. It is worth a watch!
Check out Jamie Oliver’s tips for perfect poached eggs:
Jumpy is allergic to eggs and wheat so our sandwiches are out of the question for her, but she has something similar: mashed avocado and bacon on toasted Schär Ciabatta.
Serves 1
Ingredients
4 unsmoked streaky bacon rashers
Vegetable oil
Two medium free range eggs (the fresher the better)
Two thick slices of bread
1 ripe avocado
Freshly ground pepper
Instructions
Place the streaky bacon rashers on a lightly greased (a teaspoon vegetable oil, spread evenly with kitchen towel) griddle pan, chargriller or baking sheet for a couple of minutes, then turn around and cook on the other side.
Turn off the oven. Slice the bread and boil the kettle. Toast the bread if you wish.
Using an oven glove to avoid burns, remove the pan or baking sheet from the oven. Place 4 layers of kitchen towel on a plate, then the bacon, and another 4 layers of kitchen towel. It will keep the bacon warm and absorb excess grease.
Place a large saucepan of boiling water over a high heat. Add in a pinch of salt.
Immerse both eggs together (in their shells) for 30 seconds.
Remove the eggs using a ladle and crack them into separate cups.
Using a wooden spoon, create a circular movement in your pan and gently drop one of the eggs into the water. Keep the water turning to make sure the white does not detach itself from the yolk. Cook for two to three minutes in simmering water and remove from the pan using a fish slice. Place on kitchen paper for a minute until ready to serve..
Top the bread with the mashed avocado, bacon, egg and some freshly ground black pepper. Enjoy!
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i do love a warm staffordshire oatcake filled with bacon and cheese mmmmmmmmmm
I like to eat scones for brunch 🙂
A muffin filled with a poached egg, bacon, mushrooms and tomato!
A nice full English
I don’t have brunch.. but if I did I’d have scrambled tofu with asparagus
bacon butties
I love grilled bacon and egg on toast.
Like a smoked salmon bagel when funds allow!
Brunch is a poached egg on toasted muffin & a side salad
Eggs benedict
Fried egg on toast! Yum!
Bacon sandwiches are my favourite.
It’s usually yoghurt with some granola.
Huge YUM!!
Thanks for a FAB giveaway 🙂 x
a bagel, with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
Brunch is the perfect time for salads or very similar light foods!
toast with bacon and eggs
Egg, bacon, chips and beans x
Crispy oak smoked bacon and pain au chocolate. Yum.
Tuna salad is always a winner for me.
I LOVE A FULL ENGLISH
I love cheese on toast for brunch
I love to eat scrambled eggs on seeded bread for brunch!
A good old english fryup, but it must have fried bread. To help reduce the fat a little I will have grilled bacon and poached eggs
I love pancakes for brunch: yummy!
pancakes, american style, with cream and strawberries
i like melted cheese on a baguette
bagel with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
Leeks and bacon with mushrooms.
Love bacon French toast and beans
Scrambled eggs on toast with Smoked salmon
My favourite brunch is a continental breakfast
Bacon and Fried Egg Sandwich
I love the avocado, bacon, and poached egg open sandwich. I always use the 3rd method on Jamie’s quick clip (food-safe clingfilm). If you have’nt watched the clip .. you’re missing out. Less than 5 mins, and some great tips.
Bacon and eggs is the best! Sometimes I have bananas and cornflakes as well (technically a second breakfast?)
a bacon and egg roll with brown sauce
Has to be a toasted BLT
Chicken Caesar salad!
My favourite brunch food is bacon but I love it served in many differnet ways
love eating scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on rye bread for brunch
ham and cheese toasties
I like bagel with bacon for brunch
I like Cheese on toast at brunch.
Wonderful thank you for advice
I love eating with my hubby
Poached egg on toast with cheese on top
cheese and bacon pannini
A delicious bacon sarnie xx
Has to be a bacon and egg sandwich
Brilliant competition
egg on toast
That looks lovely. I like scrambled egg on rye bread with a grilled beef tomato that’s had a dash of chilli oil splashed on it to give it a little kick.
Eggs Benedict with extra bacon, fruit salad, juice and coffee.
A bacon sarnie for brunch is just the ticket
I love chorizo and cheese toasties
BLT
Bacon, pancakes and maple syrup 🙂
I usually have boiled eggs chopped up in a cup with a bit of butter and salt and pepper, yum x
I like to have bacon and egg of a brioche bun for brunch. Yum.
sausage butty
Pancakes and bacon
Poached egg on a toasted bagel with a little light seasoning
Love scrambled eggs on toast made by my other half
american pancakes
I love eggs for brunch – It has to be savory!
i like a good bacon sandwich 🙂
grilled chicken salad xxx
I rarely eat brunch but when I do it’s poached eggs on buttery toast!
a toasted bacon and egg sandwich
Bacon, Sausage, Eggs, loads of toast with a thick cut marmalade. Orange juice and coffee.
For me, it’s smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and asparagus – my favourite!
love a nice fresh bread/roll with nice pork sausages!!
Sausage sandwich & smoothie
My favourite brunch is scrambled eggs and smoked salmon
Has to be scrambled eggs and maple cured bacon
My favourite brunch is a full cooked English breakfast – normally after a late night!
A Bacon and Mushroom sandwich 🙂
The best brunch food is definitely waffles!!
A full English breakfast!
Mushrooms on toast with poached egg.
Cheesy Garlic Bread with Bacon
Bacon and Sausage Sandwich
I absolutely love poached egg on toast for brunch
I don’t often have brunch, but when I do, I choose a bacon sandwich.
egg mayo sarnies
I love salmon, poached eggs and toasted sourdough for brunch.
Salmon scrambled eggs
Sausage or burgers with baked beans, tomato, mushroom, poached or fried runny egg with buttered toast
i usually eat a bacon sandwich for brunch
This recipe is my idea of brunch heaven. Yum!
I love having omelettes with salad and bread to make it a full meal.
We love scrambled egg and tomatoes
Poached eggs with hollandaise sauce.
Has to be pancakes although pancakes at any time of the day works for me! Mmm
i love croissants for brunch
Scambled egg on toast with bits of crispy chorizo
I love things like waffles or pancakes as brunch food, though we don’t have it often.
A BLT with loads of mayo
I like French toast with berries.
i love a BLT especially when the bacon is crispy, otherwise i would have a cheese and ham toastie!
Any thing bacon in makes a perfect brunch for me!
Spanish omelette
Bacon and eggs
seriously, I kid you not, I am sitting here looking at an overripe avocado on the table which I left out to remind myself to have it for lunch today. AND I have bacon too. I am literally making this as soon as I hit POST COMMENT!!! N x
Ha ha, I did enjoy mine I have to say! How was yours? xx
AWESOME!!!!! 🙂
My favourite brunch is a Full English ‘Breakfast’, just before 12 noon, at Cotes.
My favourite brunch food used to be Eggs Benedict – until I saw your recipe here and now I am craving it! LOL – thank you!
Bacon and eggs are my favourite – great giveaway!
Beans on toast!
I love a full english breakfast xx
Pancakes 🙂
Fab blog post. nothing beats a runny egg & bacon bun for me at ‘brunch’ time 🙂
i love to have bacon and egg muffins fab giveaway thankyou x
sausage and bacon
Bacon rolls
Smoked salmon and sliced bread, preferably with a glass of bubbly!
my favourite brunch is a simple broad beans on toast covered in salad cream
For brunch, I love to eat either bacon and scrambled/poached eggs, with a lovely cup of tea.
Mine is poached eggs, it really is, I thought that before I read the article.
Bacon sandwiches.
my go to brunch is always eggs royal – could eat that for breakfast, lunch and dinner!!
peanut butter on toast
Scrambled eggs on thick crunchy toast, with apple juice then rose hip and hibiscus infusion.
I love brunch and when we have it it’s a full hog continental
Bacon sarnies for me!
I tend to choose poached eggs on toast
Cheese and red onion omelette
Scrambled eggs on toast
Scrambled eggs on toast, thanks for the lovely giveaway, I would love to win this.
A crumpet topped with basil, tomatoes and mozzarella
A full English
Double egg on toast with lots of tomato sauce!!!!
poached eggs
ham and cheese croissant
I like pancakes, blueberries raspberries and yogurt or fromage frais, with OJ and a cup of good coffee
Pain Au Chocolat and coffee
I am a baked beans on toast with melted cheese fan for brunch.
A nice sausage roll
A full english breakfast xx
i like a boiled egg and soldiers
Well, I love to have baked bacon, scrambled eggs with feta cheese and oregano, halved cherry tomatoes and olives sprinkled with olive oil and homemade bread. Thank you for the chance.
Bacon sandwiches or beans on toast with cheese on top!
stuffed mushrooms are a regular favourite
Spinach and peas with bacon and potato rosti topped with a fried egg…..Delish!!
I get up FAR too early for brunch to be an option, but if I ever did have it I would have smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
This looks delicious but never tried to make poached eggs at home, will definitely try this now. My go to brunch is Crispy Bacon in a toasted bagel with scrambled eggs and HP Sauce. Yum. Great giveaway.
sausage sandwich
spinach and ricotta pasta
Poached Egg on Toast with a rasher of crispy bacon
A cream tea is my favourite
I enjoy having a toasted muffin and scrambled eggs
scrambled eggs with avo and tomatoe
I love bacon and egg on muffins, with bacon on the side, you can never have enough bacon!
Sausage and bacon sandwich
I like to eat a grill up for brunch or a fruit salad
I love eggs benedict
A lovely croissant
I love a toasted muffin or bagel with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon
Poached eggs on toast, sometimes with bacon
I love scrambled eggs with a sprinkle of chives
bacon and tomato sandwiches would be my fave
Eggs Benedict
egg on toast
Pancakes with bacon and maple syrup. Yum!
Poached egg and bacon on English muffins, yum 🙂
Focaccia bread mmmm!
Chicken and roasted pepper wraps.
Je pourrais mangé un de tes sandwichs à n’importe quelle heure de la journée !
Moi aussi!!!
A nice simple sausage sandwich with lots of ketchup.
Full English – The works!
Love a full english! x
Poached egg and mushrooms on toast.
Avocado on toast with salt and pepper or poached eggs on toast are my two favourites. I hadn’t thought of combining them!
Muffins & croissants
cheese nachos or omelette/scrambled eggs on toast
bacon and avocado x
grilled halloumi with some sweet chilli sauce
I love poached eggs and smoked salmon
Eggs Benedict.
I love poached eggs with hollandaise sauce.
eggy bread!
I love a good ole bacon butty for bunch
for brunch i like boiled egg mashed up with a little butter on toast or toasted cheese with worcester sauce is always good 🙂
I either have a banana or oven baked eggs in ham.
eggs Benedict with bacon
do not eat brunch but enjoy a cup of coffee and a biscuit
I like egg on toast.
Avocado and smoked salmon on toast. Yum
Egg on toast.
A good old sausage sandwich!
egg and bacon
Probably just have scones and jam! I never have brunch, I’m not posh like that haha
eggs benedict
Kedgeree
a hot sausage roll..very naughty
Eggs Benedict
Crispy Bacon and Poached Egg on grilled Staffs or Derbys Oatcake
I’d love scones with jam
Brioche bread toasted with a cheese, ham and chive omelette
Poached eggs on toast
A salad baguette
I do love bacon and poached eggs on a toasted muffin, with mushrooms and tomato too, lovely 😀
You can’t beat a bacon sandwich
Toasted cheese and ham bagels
I like french toast with tea. 🙂
I’d love pastries, cakes and some grilled chicken wings (craving now!)
My favourite brunch is pancakes with maple syrup
I love a bacon roll, especially if the rolls are warm from the oven….. hiccups galore but I don’t care
I love grilled tomatoes, baby potatoes and asparagus
I love eggs and ham!
Poached eggs on toast
Avocado on toast yum!!
Scrambled eggs on toast
A bacon and mushroom baguette!
beans on toast simple but hearty
Bagels with bacon & eggs
bacon rolls x
bacon & avacodo sandwich
I love eggs Royal without the hollandaise sauce for brunch. So tasty.
bacon sandwich every time
toasted tea cakes with jam
What do you most like to eat for brunch? . . . . an all day breakfast with lots of toast
Eggs Benedict with homemade hollandaise mmm
Scrambled Egg on Toast
Poached egg on toast with a sprinkle of chilli
bagel bacon golden syrup
As I’m on a diet at the moment, I like to have chargrilled chicken breast with a salad. I season the chicken with herbs, garlic and balsamic vinegar.
Eggs Benedict
We always make poached -runny in the middle- duck eggs on sourdough, sliced avocado with salt, pepper, chili flakes and two rashers of crispy bacon. It’s my favourite and feels like a warm homely hug as well as you filled up healthily the day! X
Bacon or sausage sandwiches – I’m a traditional girl! 🙂
Mushrooms on sourdough
Scrambled egg on toast
Pouched egg mashed on toast, tasty and healthy
Pancakes with bacon and maple syrup.
I love garlic mushrooms on toast, with lots and lots of tea and maybe a French chocolate pastry
Toasted English muffin, topped with fried mushrooms and fried tomato. Mmmm
Smoked salmon and poached eggs
A full fat english!
A sausage sandwich with lots of butter
I know its bad but I love a bacon sandwich!
Smoked salmon on toast with cream cheese, dill and lemon. Delicious!
Gotta be a Full English, nothing else compares!
Full English ! Nothing better than starting the day on a full stomach
Scrambled eggs on toast, or a full English depending on whether I was drinking the night before 🙂
Bacon and egg on tiast
I love bacon and egg butties.
I’m a recent convert to sliced banana on wholemeal toast…much nicer than it sounds!
Bacon, eggs, fried mushrooms and plum tomatoes – delicious
A small full english x
2 poached eggs on a toasted seeded thick sliced bread, no butter just a pinch of salt
Egg Benedictes
Eggs Benedict definitely!
Eggs benedict is always a winner
Smoked salmon & eggs <3
My favourite thing to eat for brunch is a bacon and egg roll
cheese and tomato on toast
A full English. A real treat when we are on holiday 🙂
salmon and eggs
I love poached eggs and spinach on toast
ryvita’s topped with salmon and salad leaves
French Toast and fried chestnut mushrooms
Spanish omelette with a bread and butter 🙂
a quick wrap or a salad
Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese Bagels
Has to be poached eggs
Definitely eggs florentine.
Bacon and poached egg
I love smoked salmon and scrambled eggs followed by an amazingly good cup of tea
Poached eggs, bacon, hash brown and mushrooms for me
Eggs Benedict – a real treat!
Bacon and Egg sandwiches with brown sauce, yummy .x
i absolutely adore poached eggs and mushrooms on granary toast, delicious
Eggs benedict, yum!
Breakfast burritos or paninis
I love poached egg on wholemeal bagel
Scrambled eggs on wholemeal toast.
my favourite brunch is strawbwerrys and grapes covered in yoghurt
Scrambled egg warmed vine tomatoes on harvester toast oh and a spiced tomato chutney
My favourite brunch food is a BLT.
arabian buttered eggs
Eggs benedict is my favourite brunch! Such a little treat when you have it!
Eggs and bacon
A fry up!
I am very partial to Eggs Benedict served with freshly squeezed orange juice
full English breakfast 🙂
bacon and eggs. maybe pancakes too!
omelette
California BLT – lightly toasted bread, crispy bacon, lettuce, avocado, tomato and mayo x
Sweetcorn pancakes.
Eggs benedict
BACON AND EGGS WITH A MUFFIN
left over pizza
My favourite Brunch is Bacon and Egg Toasted Sandwich
Anything grilled thrills me!
scrambled eggs keep me going and are high in protein!
Avocado and eggs on toast
A fry up!
A bacon sarnie!!
poached eggs and bacon
crumpets with cheese
For brunch I love a bacon sarnie
My fave brunch is poached eggs on top of cheese on toast
full English for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner…
I love eggs Benedict so those pictures have made my mouth water
A big English fry up
Bacon and a poached egg with wholemeal toast
Egg muffin
Scrambled eggs on toast
smoked salmon , Avocado, scrambled eggs and bagel topped with freshly chopped parsley 🙂
most days porridge to be good – on a weekend bacon and egg 🙂
I love a bacon buttie and brown sauce for brunch!!
I love Poached Egg and crispy bacon on toast .. Mmmm
A full english
I normally have a pain au chocolate – yummy ?
Potato cakes with frilled tomatoes, Portabello mushrooms and poached eggs
Paoched eggs and bacon on toast mmnm
Toasted cheese and tomato sandwich 😀
A Full English Breakfast.
Bacon and egg sandwiches would have to be my my favourite. But if I’m trying to be a little bit healthier then I also love poached eggs on English muffins
eggs benedict
I love American breakfast pancakes with maple syrup and bacon.
Eggs Benedict – yummytastic
Bacon and egg baguette 🙂
Cheese on toast
My favourite brunch is a full english 🙂
Eggs Benedict is my favourite brunch
Eggs benedict 🙂
Egg and soldiers
Poached Eggs with Bacon, Mushrooms and Potato Rosti’s
My favourite brunch is pancakes with bacon and maple syrup!
Breakfast pizza of course 🙂 one big homemade hash brown with a sausage, bacon and eggs on top all stuck in the over and eaten piping hot is best 🙂
My favourite brunch is bacon and fried mushrooms with toast
Bacon and egg sarnie
Bagels, with cream cheese and smoked salmon!
Poached egg on toasted wholemeal bread.
Sausage, Egg, Bacon and beans
Bacon sarnie
pork pie for savoury or tea and hobnobs for sweet
Poached Egg on Toast
A full English breakfast.
You can’t beat a fried egg sandwich
My favourite brunch is Eggs Benedict!
soda wit streaky bacon and brown sauce
pancakes 🙂
Egg sandwich
Scrambled eggs and bacon
smoked mackerel and some nice wholemeal bread
My favourite brunch dish is Eggs Florentine. It tastes so luxurious.
chicken pesto paninis
Waffles
cheese ham egg toastie
Grilled ciabatta with scrambled egg and smoked salmon, my ideal brunch.
A full English
A Full English Breakfast
Full English!
Toast!
bacon sarnie
BLT for me.
It has to be a bacon and fried egg sandwich for me with a bit of brown sauce!
Mostly for brunch I enjoy an oven bottom with bacon and egg on it
Eggs Benedict mmmmm with smoked salmon.
Poached eggs, mushrooms, spinach and cherry tomatoes, all on marmite toast.
a full English, bacon, Sausage, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, toast, fried bread and a couple of fried eggs
eggs florentine – as long as I don’t have to prepare it!
Poached egg on a toasted sesame seed muffin is my weekly brunch on a Sunday x
cheese and ham toasties
It’s a BLT all the way for me
My perfect brunch is a cheese and tomato omelette at half 11 on a sunday morning
delicious !!mmmm!! 🙂
i love a bacon butty with lots of butter & Ketchup mmm
Eggs Benedict
Bacon brioche
usually toast or a bowl of chopped fruit
Home made waffles with chocolate sauce, and ice cream (I’m pregnant ha) x
Either scrambled/boiled eggs or a veggie packed fritatta 🙂
The full works and if its a really lazy sunday I like to through in waffles to with maple syrup and strawberries , however you first picture has made me very hungry indeed!!
I Love bagel with Salmon and cream cheese
Anything with crispy bacon is brunch to me.
Avacado on toast!
I love omelettes loaded with bacon, mushrooms And onions! X
My favourite (one of many!) is a big, freshly-baked croissant, stuffed with brie and bacon.
A bacon or bacon and egg roll of course!!!
Crispy bacon,fried eggs and chips x
Bacon & mushrooms on toast
stones with tons of strawberry jam!
Pancakes with maple syrup and blueberries
I love a bacon roll for brunch 🙂
eggs benedict
Scrambled Egg on Toast
Chorizo Hash…yummy.
Normally eat brunch on weekends as special treat. Grilled bacon & grilled mushrooms(sprayed with fry light) on a toasted muffin with peached egg & fresh chives. Sometimes I have a piece of black pudding cut into cubes with it too.
I love a full English for brunch 🙂 this looks gorgeous, I adore avocado!
Eggs and bacon
Can’t beat a full English breakfast for brunch!
I like avocado and scrambled eggs on toast 🙂
Difficult to beat Spanish eggs with peppers and chorizo
Cheese on toast
Cheese and Marmite toastie x
I would go for a full English! 🙂
The best brunch is slices of black pudding with fried egg and a little chilli sauce. Mmmm.
scrambled egg on toast
Would bloomin love this! Fab. I love eggs benedict! Yumm
Poached eggs on toast is my favourite thing to have for brunch xx
has to be poached eggs on brown toast and lots ketchup ohh my fav x
beans on toast
Eggs Benedict
grilled cheese on seeded bread topped with baked beans and mushrooms
I love a toasted sesame bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese 🙂 x
It’s got to be carrot cake pancakes with blueberries and cream cheese glaze! MMmm!
Chorizo, quorn pieces and mushrooms with sautéed potatoes
I love scrambled eggs on toasted muffins with smoked salmon – yum so light and so tasty xx
Croque Monsieur
An omelette with bacon and mushrooms 🙂
My favourite brunch dish would have to be thick cut bloomer bread with a generous heap of mushrooms in a garlic and cream sauce, perfect !
Bacon sausage egg cheese and hash brown butty!
I like a sausage and egg toasted muffin 🙂
Scrambled eggs xxx
I love smoked salmon and scrambled egg, or fried egg in a buttered muffin 🙂
poached eggs ontop of black pudding
A cream cheese and ham bagel
Bacon sandwich
I love poached egg and bacon on toast
Bacon & Egg
Eggs, bacon, tomatoes, baked beans and mushrooms!
Bacon Sandwich 😀
I like omelettes. I can never face them for breakfast, but brunch is perfect for omelettes. a good cheesy one. 🙂
Eggs bendict with Avocado and Salmon
Eggs benadic and smoked salmon x
Oh my goodness, eggs benedict for sure!! Creamy yolk and hollandaise!
tea and biscuits
Poached eggs on toast 🙂
Sausage sandwich with brown sauce
Bacon and honey bagel
Poached eggs every time
Cooked breakfast on a breadcake – as much or as little as you like (I go with bacon, egg, sausage and mushrooms).
Scrambled egg on toast
Fried eggs on toast
Scrambled eggs, with coriander and bacon on white muffins!
a full english
a bacon, egg and sausage roll
Bacon Roll
Bacon ,sausage and tomato bap
Pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, or scrambled egg with smoked salmon, yum!!
Oh i rarely have brunch but if i do i like a gammon salad sandwich
I like scrambled eggs and bacon with toast mmmm
I love a danish pastry or an almond croissant x
fried eggs on toast and beans
crumpets and jam
a full english
bacon sausage on toast