Menemen (Turkish farmer's breakfast with sucuk)

AUTHOR
Kelley Price
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 37
COOK TIME
45 mins
TOTAL TIME
45 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 6
  • 4 large onions
  • 500 g green Turkish peppers
  • 1 mild green chili pepper
  • 1 (180 g) Sucuk (Turkish raw sausage)
  • 2 TABLESPOONS good olive oil
  • 1 can(s) (850 ml) Tomatoes
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt, sugar
  • 1 collar flat leaf parsley
  • 6 Eggs

Directions

  1. 1

    Onions peel and roughly chop. Clean, wash and cut the peppers into strips. Clean the chilli, cut lengthwise, remove seeds, wash and cut into fine rings. Peel the skin from the sucuk.

  2. 2

    Halve the sausage lengthwise and cut into slices.

  3. 3

    Heat the oil in a large ovenproof coated pan. Braise onions, chilli and sausage for about 10 minutes. After about 5 minutes add paprika and braise.

  4. 4

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Add tomatoes and juice to the vegetables, bring to the boil and continue cooking for approx. 5 minutes. Season everything with salt and 1 pinch of sugar.

  5. 5

    Meanwhile wash parsley, shake dry, pluck off leaves and chop. Stir the parsley into the vegetable sauce. Beat the eggs into the pan side by side. Leave to set in the hot oven for about 10 minutes.

  6. 6

    If you don't have an ovenproof pan, you can leave the eggs on the stove for about 10 minutes at low heat, even with the lid closed. Traditional accompaniment: flat bread or simit.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
280 kcal
CARBS
9 g
FATS
19 g
PROTEINS
16 g