Ingredients serve 2

2 medium globe

2 slices lean bacon

2 eggs

4 tablespoon Hollandaise sauce

Method

Wash the artichokes. Cut the stems sat the base and remove the small bottom leaves. Stand the artichokes upright in a deep saucepan with 5cm salted water. Cover and boil gently 35 minutes. Turn the artichokes upside down to drain . Spread the leaves open like flower pearls . With a spoon, carefully remove the center pearls and the fuzzy center from the artichoke bottoms and discard . keep the artichoke warm . Brown the bacon in a frying pan and poach the eggs in boiling salted water . Place a bacon slice into each artichoke top with a poached egg and mock hollandaise sauce . Serve immediately.

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