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Emilys Home Cooked Kitchen
Emilys Home Cooked Kitchen @emilyshomeCK
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Part of breakfasts from around the world, here is a delicious breakfast/brunch from Turkey! The eggs poach beautifully in the flavoursome tomato and pepper sauce! Serve it with delicious sumac yogurt too! And a crumble of feta cheese for extra indulgence!

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Ingredients

2 servings
  1. 2eggs
  2. 1 tspfennel seeds
  3. 1 tspcumin seeds
  4. 1/2 tspmustard seeds
  5. 1/2-1 tspchilli flakes
  6. 1/2onion or 1 shallot sliced
  7. 1 knobgrated ginger
  8. 1garlic clove finely chopped
  9. 1/2red pepper diced
  10. 6vine tomatoes diced (mine are small)
  11. (Optional depending on the sweetness of the tomato, 1 tsp of sugar)
  12. 1heaped tbsp of tomato puree
  13. 2-3 tspwater (depending on how liquid the tomatoes are)
  14. 2 tbspolive oil
  15. 1 tbspolive oil to serve
  16. 1 bunchflat leaved parsley chopped
  17. 100 gramsyogurt
  18. 1 tspcrushed salt
  19. to tasteLemon juice
  20. Sea salt
  21. Black pepper
  22. Soda bread or crusty bread
  23. Butter (optional)
  24. 2-4free range eggs depending on how hungry you are

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Heat a small frying pan then throw in the oil, when it’s warm add the spices. (Fennel, cumin, mustard seeds and chilli flakes)

  2. 2

    Sauté them for a few minutes to allow them to release there aroma.

  3. 3

    Whilst it is sautéed chop up the tomato, pepper, onion, garlic & grate the ginger.

  4. 4

    Once the seed mixture has nicely heated through add the chopped up, ginger onion, garlic to the frying pan let them soften.

  5. 5

    Then add the tomato and pepper. Then water and tomato purée and give it a good stir.

  6. 6

    If your tomatoes are quite sour it’s time to add a tsp of sugar but make sure you taste it to see if it’s needed. Add salt and pepper.

  7. 7

    Whilst it is simmering, slice the bread and place in the toaster.

  8. 8

    When the sauce has thickened and all mixed together add the eggs. Leave to simmer on a low heat, it can help if you put on a lid if you have one.

  9. 9

    Whilst the eggs are cooking, make the sumac yogurt. Simply mix it together then chop up some parsley. Drizzle some olive oil over the egg mixture! It’s then ready to serve! Tuck in and enjoy 😊

  10. 10

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Yui Miles
Yui Miles @cookingwithyui
Lookimg forward to cook this with you x

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