Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 5-10 minutes Rest time: 5 minutes Total time: 25 mins
Makes: 5 egg yolks
This method offers 5 different boil times for these soft-boiled egg yolks for more or less of a jammy consistency.
What you need to make Jammy Soft-Boiled Egg Yolks
Ingredients:
- Eggs
Equipment:
- Cooking pot
(for the full recipe, scroll to the bottom)
Substitutions
No substitutions are listed for this recipe.
How to make Jammy Soft-Boiled Egg Yolks
If a visual will help, watch the Instagram Reel for this recipe.
Bring water to a boil.
Fill your cooking pot with enough water to cover the eggs, turn the heat to very high, and bring the water to a boil.
Once the water is at a full boil, slowly/gently add the eggs to the water to prevent them from cracking.
Note: even if I am very gentle with the eggs, from time to time, an egg will crack upon entry due to heat shock. This is normal.
Boil the eggs.
Check out the photo in the “Tips to make the best…” section below, and boil for the amount of time listed with the consistency that you are going for.
Note: if you follow me on Instagram and see my meals on Stories, the egg yolks I add to my meals are usually boiled for 6.5-7 minutes. I included pictures of some of these meals in the “Tips to make the best…” section as well.
Flash the eggs with cold water, peel around the yolks, then serve.
Once the time limit you chose is reached, remove the eggs from heat immediately, empty the boiling water, and run cold water over the eggs. You can also add them to an ice bath for the same effect.
Leave the eggs to further cool for a few minutes.
Once the eggs are cool enough to work with, carefully peel around the yolks. For a visual, check out the Instagram reel for this recipe.
Note: if you watch the reel for this recipe, you will see that the yolk in the egg that I boiled for 5 minutes didn’t break, but the yolk in the egg that I boiled for 6 minutes did. For yolks on the runnier side (5-6 minutes boil time), sometimes they break and sometimes they stay formed. It all depends on how slow and graceful you are when peeling, and sometimes it just depends on the egg itself. For eggs boiled for 7 minutes and up, if you are careful, those yolks don’t usually break.
Note: there are also other factors that affect yolk consistency…like the temperature of the eggs before going in the water, if you place the eggs in when the water during an early boi vs. a raging boil, etc. To achieve your “perfect yolk,” use this method as a base and play around with the other factors as you see fit.
Note: I discard the whites as I usually don’t feel well when I eat them. Feel free to save/use the whites if you have some sort of creative use for them.
Tips to make the best Jammy Soft-Boiled Egg Yolks
- Even if I am very gentle with the eggs, from time to time, an egg will crack upon entry due to heat shock. This is normal.
- If you follow me on Instagram and see my meals on Stories, the egg yolks I add to my meals are usually boiled for 6.5-7 minutes. I included pictures of some of these meals below. The 7th photo down is one of my daughter’s meals. She’s just over a year old.
- If you watch the reel for this recipe, you will see that the yolk in the egg that I boiled for 5 minutes didn’t break, but the yolk in the egg that I boiled for 6 minutes did. For yolks on the runnier side (5-6 minutes boil time), sometimes they break and sometimes they stay formed. It all depends on how slow and graceful you are when peeling, and sometimes it just depends on the egg itself. For eggs boiled for 7 minutes and up, if you are careful, those yolks don’t usually break.
- There are also other factors that affect yolk consistency…like the temperature of the eggs before going in the water, if you place the eggs in when the water during an early boil vs. a raging boil, etc. To achieve your “perfect yolk,” use this method as a base and play around with the other factors as you see fit.
- I discard the whites as I usually don’t feel well when I eat them. Feel free to save/use the whites if you have some sort of creative use for them.
A few of my other favorite sweet eats:
Jumbo Chocolate Cups with Salted Chunky Date Filling
Flourless Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Jammy Soft-Boiled Egg Yolks
Jammy Soft-Boiled Egg Yolks
Equipment
Ingredients
- 5 eggs (more or less depending on many yolks you want to make)
- water (for boiling)
Instructions
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If a visual will help, watch the Instagram Reel for this recipe.
Bring water to a boil.
- Fill your cooking pot with enough water to cover the eggs, turn the heat to very high, and bring the water to a boil.
- Once the water is at a full boil, slowly/gently add the eggs to the water to prevent them from cracking.
- Note: even if I am very gentle with the eggs, from time to time, an egg will crack upon entry due to heat shock. This is normal.
Boil the eggs.
- Check out the photo in the "Tips to make the best..." section above, and boil for the amount of time listed with the consistency that you are going for.
- Note: if you follow me on Instagram and see my meals on Stories, the egg yolks I add to my meals are usually boiled for 6.5-7 minutes. I included pictures of some of these meals in the "Tips to make the best..." section as well.
Flash the eggs with cold water, peel around the yolks, then serve.
- Once the time limit you chose is reached, remove the eggs from heat immediately, empty the boiling water, and run cold water over the eggs. You can also add them to an ice bath for the same effect.
- Leave the eggs to further cool for a few minutes.
- Once the eggs are cool enough to work with, carefully peel around the yolks. For a visual, check out the Instagram reel for this recipe.
- Note: if you watch the reel for this recipe, you will see that the yolk in the egg that I boiled for 5 minutes didn't break, but the yolk in the egg that I boiled for 6 minutes did. For yolks on the runnier side (5-6 minutes boil time), sometimes they break and sometimes they stay formed. It all depends on how slow and graceful you are when peeling, and sometimes it just depends on the egg itself. For eggs boiled for 7 minutes and up, if you are careful, those yolks don't usually break.
- Note: there are also other factors that affect yolk consistency...like the temperature of the eggs before going in the water, if you place the eggs in when the water during an early boil vs. a raging boil, etc. To achieve your "perfect yolk," use this method as a base and play around with the other factors as you see fit.
- Note: I discard the whites as I usually don't feel well when I eat them. Feel free to save/use the whites if you have some sort of creative use for them.
Looking for some more easy sweet eats? Try one of these recipes:
Jumbo Chocolate Cups with Salted Chunky Date Filling
Flourless Lemon Blueberry Muffins
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Ashley Rothstein develops tasty, whole food, animal-based recipes that include a moderate amount of “minimally toxic” plant foods. To fix her own health issues, she bounced around between the carnivore, keto, and paleo diets for a few years. After experiencing and studying each diet philosophy, she learned she feels her best by merging the three and following an animal-based diet. As a glut at heart, she likes to channel her creativity and create meals that are healthy but also satisfy her inner gluttonous spirits.
