Sort of Çılbır and the Missus's latest egg-normous obsession

Ever since I made the mushroom ragout with poached eggs, the Missus, already an egg lover has been requesting poached eggs at every opportunity. I've been trying to oblige though I sometimes wrack my brains trying to come up with stuff on the fly. Here's one of those on the fly recipes. Çılbır is a Turkish dish that features poached eggs on a bed of yogurt. I know it doesn't sound very appetizing to many and frankly I don't think my pictures do the dish any favors....I often have less than 10 seconds after plating the dish to get my photos taken.

A bit too much white on white, not quite the poster child for the National Egg Society or whatever it's called. This is a sorta recipe because I took what I believed was a base recipe and adjusted it to what I had on hand.

First off, you can't have that little oozy delicious poached egg lying in a bed of cold, hard yogurt, can you? We've been trying different brands of yogurt, and though nothing comes close to what we had in Greece and Turkey, I think Voskos plain is decent. Make sure you get something full fat with no starches or gelatin or other hardening agent in it I warmed the yogurt to almost room temperature using sort of a double boiler method. One eight ounce container of yogurt is enough for two (or more eggs). I added three mashed cloves of garlic confit (don't ask, that's another story), though perhaps I should have used raw garlic for a more pungent dish. Sage or some other dried herb is often used, but I don't usually have that on hand so I thought dried dill would be nice. I added about a half teaspoon of that to the yogurt sauce and simply made my bed of yogurt.

I also made an smoked paprika oil, it's usually kirmizi biber a ground chili in Turkey or Aleppo peppers. Also, butter is usually used, but the Missus has some personal problem with using butter in savory dishes...in pastries and baked goods its fine.....but no butter in anything I make. So I used a combination of extra virgin olive oil and some of the oil from the garlic confit.

Topped the whole mess with more dill and a touch of truffle oil and made even a bigger mess.....

Pretty delicious if you like runny eggs and yogurt.

Here's a gallery of the Missus's latest egg-nourmous obsessions.....first up are poached eggs on rosemary-olive oil bread from Con Pane. It's topped with porcini mushrooms, aged parmesan, and a bit of truflle oil.

This one is poached eggs on crispy polenta with a tomato ragout.....

I really should have made my own polenta, but this was a weeknight, so I went with the tube stuff. I used extra virgin olive oil and oil from my garlic confit, salt, pepper, you name it......it still was mediocre. The Missus loved the ragout though. Roma tomatoes helped by some double concentrated tomato paste, basil, sugar, garlic confit, and onions. Had barely five seconds to take this photo......it was history.

Anyway, I hope everyone is having a great week! Any big cravings recently?

Comments

[kat]

ooh yummy!

[Mike]

Poached egg on yoghurt is definitely an interesting dish. Not sure I'd like it, but I'm curious to try it.

[Janfrederick]

Man, you know this country is overly litigious when food bloggers start suing olive oil. :)

[kirbie]

Well now I'm craving poached eggs..I think the Turkish dish you made looks great, even with the white on white.

[Alyssa]

I love yogurt and I love eggs, but I've never thought of eating them together in the same dish. It looks really interesting.

[nhb]

Tried Brown Cow plain yogurt?
I use that and Tabasco chipotle to make the sauce for my fish tacos.

[Tia]

Looks DELISH!! Truffle oil, huh? I've got to try this!

[Jack]

Gotta love the Missus's obsessions!

[Passionate Eater]

Cravings? The Missus? Um, Kirk, do you have an announcement to make?! Jk, I always have an insatiable desire for runny eggs too! Thankfully, the Missus has you (an awesome egg-poacher) to satisfy her eggy cravings!

[ghettofabgourmet]

I love anything topped with an egg

[ange]

Those egg dishes look amazing! Perfect for a hangover :)

[Kirk]

Hi Kat - Yes, it was pretty good.

Hi Mike - It's more of throught of yogurt and eggs.....it's sort of like eggs with some sour cream in a way.

Hi Jan - LOL! Nice catch!

Hi Alyssa - It was pretty good, not as strange as one ould have thought.

Hi Bill - No, I haven't.....hopefully I'll come across it.

Hi Tia - For some reason, the Missus loves truffle oil on her poached eggs.

You gotta Jack!

Hi PE - LOL! no...no...no.... ;o)

Hey GFG - I do too!

Hi Ange - I wouldn't know! LOL! ;o)