An Egg Recipe to Make Your Heart Sing (Shakshuka)

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The word ‘shuka’ means get down in Swahili and this recipe makes me want to get down and dance because of how easy and great it is. Haha. I know that was a terrible attempt at trying to be cool!

If you follow my blog, you will notice a trend here. I like easy recipes. Between playing taxi driver, teacher, nurse, counselor, cleaner and manager to my family along with trying to balance my career, time is never on my side so I need quick, delicious recipes that are not time consuming.

Do you like breakfast for dinner? I know I do. Throw in a salad and some crusty garlic bread and boom you’re good to go! On days when I’m feeling more ambitious I make coconut spinach as a side dish.

You can totally tweak this recipe to your liking and add ingredients like green chilies to give it a kick.

This was borrowed from our North African friends so assalam aleikum and shukran to them.

Shakshuka

An Egg recipe to make your heart sing

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Ingredients

  

• 1/2 onion; diced
• 1/4 bell peppers; diced
• 1 clove garlic; minced
• 1/2 fresh chilli; chopped
• 1 small can of tomato; you can use whole or diced
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp spanish paprika
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp salt

Instructions

 

• In a pan, sauté the onion for 2 min
• Add the bell pepper, garlic and chilli. cook this on medium flame for 2 more min
• Next, add the canned tomato and tomato paste followed by the cumin, paprika, sugar.
• Let the tomato base cook until the oil starts to separate (the mixture will thicken thats how you know you are ready for the next step)
• Sprinkle in the salt
• Make a well in the gravy and add an egg. Repeat until you use up all the eggs. Cover and cook for 8 min
• Garnish with coriander

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Cuisine: Middle Eastern

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