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.
Ingredients
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3 tablespoons olive oil
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1 ⅓ cups chopped onion
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1 cup thinly sliced bell peppers, any color
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2 cloves garlic, minced, or to taste
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2 ½ cups chopped tomatoes
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1 hot chile pepper, seeded and finely chopped, or to taste
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1 teaspoon ground cumin
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1 teaspoon paprika
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1 teaspoon salt
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4 large eggs
Instructions
- Gather all ingredients.
- ingredients gathered in glass bowls
- 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.
- onions and bell peppers cooking in a skillet
- Meanwhile, mix together tomatoes, chile pepper, cumin, paprika, and salt in a bowl.
- tomatoes, chile peppers and seasonings mix together in a bowl
- Stir tomato mixture into onion mixture. Simmer, uncovered, until tomato juices have cooked off, about 10 minutes.
- both mixtures combined in the skillet
- 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.
- eggs cracked into the skillet
- Serve and enjoy!