Breakfast

Bubble and Squeak with Poached Eggs

Name: Bubble and Squeak with Poached Eggs
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 200 g Boiled potato; 100 g White cabbage; 30 g Spring onion; 2 large, about 110 g Egg; 8 g Rapeseed oil; To taste Salt; Lots Black pepper

Leftover boiled potato and cabbage crushed into a cake and fried until crisp on both sides, with two poached eggs on top. 19 g of protein for 406 kcal.

Calories: 406kcal
Protein: 19g
Fat: 19g
Carbs: 41g

Per serving, makes 1. 15 minutes of work. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Eggs

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Ingredients

Boiled potato200 g
Cold from the fridge. Warm potato will not hold a shape. Cooked weight.
White cabbage100 g
Cooked. Leftover greens of any kind work: sprouts, kale, savoy.
Spring onion30 g
Egg2 large, about 110 g
Rapeseed oil8 g
SaltTo taste
Black pepperLots

Method

Crush the potato roughly with a fork, chop the cabbage and mix both with the spring onion, salt and a lot of pepper. Press into two flat cakes.
Heat the oil in a non-stick pan over a medium-high heat and fry the cakes for five minutes a side without moving them, until the crust is deep brown.
Poach the eggs in barely simmering water for three minutes while the second side cooks, and sit them on the cakes.

Worth knowing

The crust is where the flavour is, and it only forms if the cake is left alone. Nudging it early breaks it up into fried mash.
Boiled potato is 72 kcal per 100 g, so 200 g of it and the eggs still land at 406. The same thing made with roast potatoes is nearer 500.

Other breakfast recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every breakfast between 300 and 450 calories a serving.

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Macros are calculated from the weights listed above using standard food composition values, and will shift with your own brands and measuring. Weigh what you can. This is a recipe, not dietary advice. The full health disclaimer is below.