Poached duck's egg with crushed potatoes, green onions and bacon

Serves 4

Poached duck’s egg with crushed potatoes, green onions and bacon (Jason Lowe )

Mashed or crushed potatoes for breakfast soak up excess alcohol and this easy recipe will get you back on track.

500-600g large new potatoes, peeled and cooked
A couple of good knobs of butter
6 spring onions, trimmed and finely chopped
8 rashers of smoked streaky bacon, cut into ½cm dice or 120g pancetta or bacon cubes
4 duck eggs
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Coarsely crush the potatoes with a fork or potato masher, mix in the onions and butter, season and keep hot. Meanwhile, fry the bacon until crisp. Poach the duck eggs, keeping them as soft as possible, then spoon the potato into the centre of warmed serving plates, place the eggs on top, break them with a spoon so the yolk runs into the potato and scatter the bacon over.