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Shakshuka-Style Eggs with Capsicum

Eggs poached in a cumin-and-paprika tomato sauce with red capsicum and onion, scooped up with wholegrain bread.

Shakshuka-Style Eggs with Capsicum. Eggs poached in a cumin-and-paprika tomato sauce with red capsicum and onion, scooped up with wholegrain bread.
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Prep 10 minCook 20 minServes 2

Ingredients

Why metric?

Metric avoids regional spoon ambiguity. US uses 5 mL tsp, 15 mL tbsp and 240 mL cup. Small masses stay in grams unless a verified recipe conversion exists. More on measurements

  • 30 ml extra-virgin olive oil (27 g)
  • 1 small brown onion, finely sliced (100 g)
  • 1 large red capsicum, sliced (200 g)
  • 2 garlic cloves, sliced (10 g)
  • 2 g ground cumin
  • 2 g smoked paprika
  • 400 g canned no-added-salt tomatoes
  • 4 eggs (204 g, shelled)
  • 8 g flat-leaf parsley, chopped
  • 4 thick slices wholegrain bread (160 g), to serve
  • 1 g iodised table salt, plus more to taste
  • Ground black pepper, to taste

Method

  1. Warm the oil in a wide frying pan over medium heat. Cook the onion and capsicum with a pinch of the salt for 8-10 minutes, stirring now and then, until both have collapsed and taken a little colour at the edges.
  2. Add the garlic, cumin and smoked paprika and stir for 30 seconds, until the spices smell toasted rather than raw.
  3. Tip in the tomatoes, crushing the whole ones against the side of the pan. Add the remaining salt and simmer 8 minutes, until the sauce holds a trough when you drag a spoon through it.
  4. Make four hollows in the sauce and crack an egg into each. Cover the pan and cook 5-7 minutes over low heat, until the whites are set and the yolks still move when you shake the pan.
  5. Scatter with parsley, grind over pepper and serve straight from the pan with the bread for scooping.

Serve

A soft yolk is not fully cooked. Guidance is to avoid undercooked egg if you are pregnant, over 70, under 2, or your immune system is low or suppressed — which includes many people on immune-modifying medicines. Cook the yolk through instead: the dish still works.

Safety and storage

Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 60°C

Cool and cover within two hours of cooking; split large amounts into shallow containers so they chill quickly. Reheat until steaming hot, at least 60°C.

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