Steak N Quail Eggs

This simple but wonderful dish was made with a previously marinated London broil steak (that I sliced up for breakfast and will have the rest on a salad for lunch during the week). Our Chimichurri sauce was drizzled over the steak. Served alongside some of our home-fried potatoes.

I have these wonderful neighbors who raise quail and I am the fortunate recipient of these beautiful eggs most all year around. The quail eggs are poached and plated on top of the hash browns.

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Ingredients

1 Marinated London Broil Steak Sliced Thin
3-4 Quail Eggs Per Dish
1 Teaspoon White Vinegar
Chimichurri Sauce See our recipe
Home-fried Potatoes See our recipe

Instructions

Grill the London Broil and slice thin (3-4 Slices per plate). The steak can be served room temperature.
Prep the Chimichurri sauce according to our recipe.
Cook your home-fries potatoes according to our recipe.
Boil water for the quail eggs and add a tablespoon of vinegar. (This helps the white to stay together in the water).
Crack the eggs one at a time and drop into the boiling water.
Reduce the heat and only cook each egg for 2-3 minutes as you want the yolk to be lightly cooked but the white firm.
Tip: Have your meal plated before dropping the eggs so all you have to do is top the steak with the Chimichurri sauce.

Notes

The consistency of the egg is a bit different from the chicken egg as it holds more yolk than white, however, the flavor is very similar and mild.

The shell is different, aside from being a beautiful speckled design, it is quite thick.

Btw: There are some species of quail, called Bob Whites that lay all white eggs.

For cracking the egg my neighbor bought me a special tool that looks like a strange pair of scissors and it works wonderfully when poaching eggs as we have done here.

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