Shakshuka

Shakshuka (or shakshouka) is a traditional Tunisian dish featuring poached eggs in a spicy tomato sauce with onions, bell pepper, and garlic. It's usually eaten for breakfast, but I think it makes a tasty lunch or dinner, served with lots of bread to mop up the sauce.



Shakshuka
Ingredients
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil

  • 1 ⅓ cups chopped onion

  • 1 cup thinly sliced bell peppers, any color

  • 2 cloves garlic, minced, or to taste

  • 2 ½ cups chopped tomatoes

  • 1 hot chile pepper, seeded and finely chopped, or to taste

  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin

  • 1 teaspoon paprika

  • 1 teaspoon salt

  • 4 large eggs

Instructions
    1. Gather all ingredients.
    2. ingredients gathered in glass bowls
    3. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in onion, bell pepper, and garlic; cook and stir until vegetables have softened and onion has turned translucent, about 5 minutes.
    4. onions and bell peppers cooking in a skillet
    5. Meanwhile, mix together tomatoes, chile pepper, cumin, paprika, and salt in a bowl.
    6. tomatoes, chile peppers and seasonings mix together in a bowl
    7. Stir tomato mixture into onion mixture. Simmer, uncovered, until tomato juices have cooked off, about 10 minutes.
    8. both mixtures combined in the skillet
    9. Make 4 indentations in tomato mixture; crack eggs into indentations. Cover the skillet and cook until eggs are firm but not dry, about 5 minutes.
    10. eggs cracked into the skillet
    11. Serve and enjoy!
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