Menemen – Turkish dish of peppers, eggs and tomatoes.

We are about to go on holiday to Istanbul, so I was looking at Turkish recipes. This caught my eye, as I had a couple of green peppers from Tagsa Uist Grow your Community at East Camp. Very tasty, very easy. 

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 small onions, thinly sliced
• 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 2 small green peppers, halved, seeded and sliced. 
• 2 dried chilli peppers, crushed
• 400g can of chopped tomatoes
• 4 eggs
• Could include herbs such as thyme, oregano, spices such as cumin
• chopped parsley
• Sour cream or greek yoghurt

METHOD:

• Heat the oil in a heavy frying pan, and add the onions, then the garlic, and then the pepper and chillies. Fry slowly until the onions are soft. 
• Add the tomatoes and any additional herbs and spices, and simmer slowly to reduce the mixture. Season with salt and pepper
• Make 4 holes in the mixture, and into each hole, crack an egg. Cover the pan and cook slowly for around 5 minutes to cook the eggs. (You can scramble the eggs into the mixture as an alternative.) 
• Beat the yogurt or sour cream with salt and pepper. 
• Sprinkle the menemen with parsley, and serve from the pan with the yoghurt or sour cream.