Softish hard-boiled eggs

Hard boiled eggs are very useful when downsizing: endlessly versatile – quick lunch, picnics, meze, sabbich – filling, and low-calorie-dense. And they are also delicious when they are not quite hard. Here's how to make them perfect. If you want to hard boil them, leave them in for a couple of minutes extra.

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Vegetarian

Gluten Free

Eggs

Bring a pan of water to a good rolling boil.
Add eggs and cook for precisely 6 minutes.
Remove, and immediately plunge them in cold water.

If you want them a little more done, boil them for a minute or two longer.

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Diva notes.

Multiple eggs

If you are cooking more than a couple of eggs, consider using a lift-outable insert, or tip them in gently using a sieve – so all the eggs go in and come out at the same time.

Peeling eggs

This can be a fiddly, time-consuming job. Ask your skivvies (guests; family; random people off the street) to peel them

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Softish hard-boiled eggs

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