How To Make Perfect Jammy Eggs

Learn how to make the perfect jammy eggs every time with a soft jam-like egg yolk and firm egg white.

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I have a passion for eggs recipe, and when I don’t make a spinach omelette, quiche Florentine or boiled eggs in the air fryer, I like to make soft-boiled eggs.

A jammy egg is a soft-boiled egg. It has a firm egg white as boiled eggs but a half-cooked yellow with a similar texture to jam. Jammy eggs are delicious eggs when you can’t choose between boiled eggs and fried eggs. The egg white is as firm as a boiled egg, and the center is silky creamy as fried eggs.

Ingredients and Substitutions

• Boiling Water – Just regular tap water.
• Oil – Olive oil or any vegetable oil.
• Eggs – I am using large eggs, but timing is provided for each egg size below.
• Ice Cubes
• Cold Water

How To Make Jammy Eggs

Last time I shared with you how to make air fryer boiled eggs with some tips to make soft-boiled eggs with a jammy texture. Today let me share with you how to make jammy eggs in a saucepan with boiled water.

1. First, add water to a medium saucepan. Bring over medium-high heat, cover the saucepan and bring to a high boil. Decrease high to medium to reach a light boil and add oil. You probably wonder why adding oil to boiled water so let me explain. While you don’t need to add oil to make boiled eggs, I found it easier to peel jammy eggs if oil is added to the water. The egg shell is porous, and the oil can penetrate under it.
2. As jammy eggs are soft-boiled eggs, their white egg is softer and sometimes cracks when peeled. The addition of oil makes the peeling perfect every time without breaking the egg whites.
3. Using a slotted spoon, bring the eggs to the saucepan. It takes about 10 minutes for an egg to be hard-boiled in boiling water, so don’t reach that time, or the yellow won’t be silky and jammy. As you can see below, we tested three different timings on large eggs:
4. 4 Minutes – The eggs are very hard to peel off. The egg whites are not set enough around the egg yolks, and the yolks are raw. Your eggs will, most of the time, break when peeling.
5. 5 Minutes – The egg whites are set, and the egg yolks are perfectly creamy, so it’s a tasty jammy egg.
6. 6 Minutes – You just reach the perfect jammy eggs. The egg whites are set, the egg yolks are creamy, but the outside of the egg yolks starts to set like in boiled eggs, creating a real jam-like texture in the center.

7. Meanwhile, prepare a bowl with ice water. To do so, fill a bowl of ice cubes and add cold tap water. Bringing eggs into the water with ice cubes after cooking will immediately stop cooking the eggs and ensure the perfect silky yellow center.
8. When the timer is off, remove the eggs from the saucepan using a slotted spoon. Transfer the warm eggs straight into to water with ice cubes. Let them sit there until they are cool enough to handle.
9. To peel the eggs, remove one egg from the cold water and tap the side of the egg on a hard surface to crack the shell. Start peeling from the side to the extremities. It’s easier to start from the middle, where air pockets are forming.
10. Peel off entirely and return the peeled egg to the cold water to keep it cold. Meanwhile, peel off the remaining jammy eggs.

Serving Jammy Eggs

Serve the cooked eggs with a pinch of:

• Sea Salt and ground pepper on top
• Hot Sauce
• Spinach Pesto or Pesto Without Pine Nuts
• Chili Flakes

Or serve the soft-boiled egg on top of a:

• Low-Carb Cobb Salad
• Strawberry Spinach Salad
• Toasted Keto Bread slice
• Keto English Muffins

Storage Instructions

I recommend you to store cooked soft-boiled eggs with their shell on. The eggshell keeps them fresh for longer – up to 7 days in an airtight container in the fridge. If peeled, they will last up to 3 days in the fridge.

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