Menemen Recipe - Turkish Scrambled Eggs With Tomatoes
One pan eggs, Turkish style! Menemen is healthy & filling and works as a breakfast recipe or a dish that can be eaten at any other time of day.
Servings 2
Calories 124kcal
Ingredients
- 4 large free range eggs
- 1 large tomato or 3-4 medium tomatoes finely chopped
- 1 medium-sized onion peeled & finely shopped
- 2 green sivri biber or 1 small green bell pepper deseeded & finely chopped
- 1 handful parsley freshly chopped
- 2 teaspoons hot chilli flakes (or Aleppo pepper) optional
- 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon thyme or oregano
- salt & pepper to season
- 1 tablespoon sunflower oil for frying
Instructions
- Add a small glug of sunflower oil to a frying pan and heat gently over a medium heat.
- First of all, add your onions and sauté for a few minutes until they become translucent.
- Now add your green pepper and stir for a few minutes until it starts to soften.
- Now stir in your chopped tomato and add your herbs and spices and salt and pepper.
- Simmer over a low heat until your tomato cooks down to form a thick tomato sauce.
- Crack your eggs into the pan and stir them until they are scrambled into the mixture.
- Remove from the heat and garnish with your parsley.
- Serve alone or as part of a larger breakfast.
Notes
- As with all of our recipes, calories are approximate and will differ depending on your ingredients.
- Turkish summer tomatoes are very large, hence we use only one. They are equivalent to 3-4 medium-sized vine tomatoes.
- If you want a richer flavour, you can add some crumbled feta cheese to your menemen recipe at the same time as your eggs.