Menemen: delicious Turkish scrambled eggs
Menemen is a delicious recipe for Turkish scrambled eggs with onions, tomatoes, peppers, and garlic. Perfect for breakfast or a light lunch or supper.
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Ingredients
- ½ cup finely chopped shallots or onion or leek 1 large shallot or ½ an onion or 1 leek
- a glug of olive oil – about 2 Tbs
- 1 cup finely chopped green pepper – 1 green pepper
- 1 cup finely chopped red pepper – I medium red pepper
- 2 cups deseeded and finely chopped tomatoes – about 4
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- pinch of dried chilli flakes as much heat as you like
- 5 large free-range egg
- salt flakes and black pepper
- Serve with a small handful fresh parsley or coriander chopped to serv
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan and sauté the onion until softened but not browned – about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, chilli and salt and pepper and cook for a further minute or so.
- Add the green and red peppers and cook this stirring regularly until softened. Add the chopped tomatoes (important to deseed these by cutting into quarters and removing the seeded flesh) and cook these until they have softened and most of the liquid has evapourated off.
- While this is cooking, lightly beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper. Add this to the vegetable mix and cook slowly over a gentle heat until they just start to set. This happens very quickly and you need to stir them all the time.
- Serve immediately with chopped fresh parsley or coriander sprinkled over the top.
Notes
Store any leftovers in the fridge and reheat in the microwave.
This dish will NOT freeze.
Servings: 4