Sentence examples for poach from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, toast the muffin halves (it definitely helps to put your breakfasting companion to work here – that way they can assemble the rest of the dish while you stand guard whisking the hollandaise) and poach the eggs.

Lower these carefully into a pan of simmering water and poach for 4 minutes.

So long as they are impeccably fresh, poach them as you see fit.

That old-times feeling was extended when Terry galavanted 100 yards upfield to poach the third.

The rigorous new examination for 16-year-olds will require them to be able to tenderise, marinate, blanch, poach, fry and braise – as well as make their own pasta, choux pastry, bread and tagine.

The lemongrass is a nice touch, but I can't taste the coconut – it's more important, I think, to buy the prawns raw and poach them in salted water, as Vietnamese food writer Uyen Luu suggests, so they act as the savoury element in what's otherwise a fairly sweet dish.

Add the prawns, turn down the heat and poach for two minutes until pink.

It is because kitchens commonly poach eggs in batches, hold them in iced water, and reheat them (often incompetently), as the orders come in.

Instead they would often poach talent from the banks.

Its aim was to poach customers.

That will be hard: the big derivative contracts that Eurex is interested in are notoriously hard to poach because big users value the fine pricing that comes with large turnover.