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Recipes > Type of Dish > Party food > Canapes & Nibbles Quails' Eggs with Cracked Pepper and Salt Serves 6 Vegetarian

This recipe is from Delia's Complete How to Cook.

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Peeling boiled quails’ eggs is not my favourite job so I usually rope in some help, but it’s worth it because they look so pretty and taste wonderful dipped in cracked pepper and salt.

The Delia Online Cookery School: For perfect hard boiled eggs, watch our video showing you how to get them just right. Click the recipe image to play.

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Method

To cook the eggs, put them into plenty of boiling water, bring them quickly back to the boil and using a timer, give them one minute and 45 seconds.

Next, run cold water over them to stop them cooking and peel them while they are still slightly warm, reserving a few with the shell on, to garnish. Then, to serve, arrange them on a platter with the unpeeled eggs and a little dipping pot containing the pepper and salt, which have been mixed together.

Ingredients

24 quails' eggs 1 tablespoon mixed peppercorns, crushed in a mortar 1 tablespoon sea salt

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