Soft-boiled duck egg with bacon & asparagus soldiers

Thank you so much for posting this recipe. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and can buy jumbo organic duck eggs locally but had no idea how long they should be cooked in order to soft-boil them. To complicate matters, the apartment we are renting has an electric stove (ceramic top) and electric heat is always too hot for a simmer. After bringing the eggs back to a boil I turned it to "Melt" while having the pot halfway on the burner, whereupon it gradually stopped simmering at all. I turned the heat back up to a 2 and then a 4 setting. Still, the 7 minutes produced a perfect jumbo soft-boiled duck egg. My bacon was frozen and I wanted to heat some French bread in the oven so boiled the asparagus, kept it warm in the oven vacated by the bread, and served jambon iberico di bellota on the side, to wrap around the spears or not. It was wonderful.

Excellent choice for brunch! Made them without the bread but loved the combination of the asparagus, pancetta, and eggs.

This was so easy to make and made a really delicious breakfast. I didn't use duck eggs but simply had regular poached eggs instead. I also added a good spoonful of hollandaise sauce drizzled over the bacon at the end. It looked amazing and was so tasty, also working incredibly well with the eggs. I turned them over halfway through the grilling and it's important to add that the bread needs to be shorter then the bacon or it will burn under the grill. Will definitely make again.