Menemen - Turkish vegetable and eggs
This simple fast recipe should be spicy. If you don't like uncooked eggs, boil them in the vegetable stew. This dish is easy to make for a large gathering. Just put the stew in small bowls, break the egg on top and put in the oven for a few minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 Hungarian sweet chilli or ½ green pepper
- 2 Tbsp clarified butter or a mix of olive oil and butter
- 2 tomatoes, chopped
- 2 Tbsp Aleppo pepper or 2 Tbsp Turkish hot pepper paste
- Salt
- ½ tsp black pepper, ground
- 2 eggs
- 2 oz Turkish cheese (beyaz peynir) or Greek feta cheese
- Aleppo pepper to taste
Garlic yogurt
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1 clove of garlic
- 2 Tbsp dried mint
- ¼ tsp salt
Method
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1
Melt the clarified butter and stir fry onion and chilli in a small casserole until they begin to color.
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2
Add tomatoes, Aleppo pepper, salt and pepper.
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3
Cook until the sauce thickens. Make two small hollows in the sauce and break an egg into each.
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4
Cover and cook over low heat until eggs are poached (4 minutes).
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5
Garnish with cheese, Haydari and a few flakes of Aleppo pepper. Serve with bread.
