13:37, 07 Sep 2023, author: Ermakova M.

Menemen - Turkish scrambled eggs

Name: Menemen - Turkish scrambled eggs
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: Chicken egg - 3 pcs.; Tomatoes - 400 g; Sweet pepper - 100 g; Onion - 100 g; Olive oil - 2 tbsp. (or creamy); Salt - to taste; Red ground pepper - to taste; Tomato paste - 0.5-1 tbsp (as needed); Greens - 1-2 sprigs (optional)

Probably, there is no such country in whose national cuisine there are no dishes from chicken eggs. And scrambled eggs are probably used in all corners of our earth! And besides eggs, many nationalities have tomatoes and onions in it. But the seasonings added to scrambled eggs, the methods of preparation and the names of these dishes are different for all peoples, which means that the taste is also different.

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Menemen is the name of Turkish scrambled eggs with vegetables. This is a simple and very tasty dish, traditionally spicy in taste, as it is often prepared with the addition of hot peppers. However, each culinary specialist prepares it to his own taste, which means that your menemen will turn out spicy or not very good - it's up to you. It is enough to replace the hot pepper with sweet bell pepper, and adjust the spiciness by adding ground red pepper to your taste in the finished dish.

In Turkey, menemen is eaten with the hands - they dip fresh bread into it and pick it up in small portions from the pan with the same bread. No, not from the usual Teflon pan, but from a cast-iron pan with two beautiful handles, which comes in different sizes: from a small one, designed for one serving, to a “family” size.

No one insists on this way of using menemen. You can eat it with a spoon or a fork, from a plate or from a frying pan - the way it suits you. But ... It's not for nothing that the Turks eat it with their hands - maybe it tastes better that way? Or maybe it's just a tribute to tradition... If you don't try it, you won't know! I propose to cook menemen and compare! Let's start?!

Menemen - Turkish scrambled eggs

Кухня: Turkish, завтрак, калории: 96, время приготовления: 00:30

Ингредиенты

Chicken egg - 3 pcs.

Tomatoes - 400 g

Sweet pepper - 100 g

Onion - 100 g

Olive oil - 2 tbsp. (or creamy)

Salt - to taste

Red ground pepper - to taste

Tomato paste - 0.5-1 tbsp (as needed)

Greens - 1-2 sprigs (optional)

Рецепт

1. Onions, sweet peppers and peeled tomatoes (it is better to take juicy, fleshy ones), cut into small cubes.

2. Pour olive oil into a frying pan and fry the onion in it over medium heat until golden brown (about 5-7 minutes). Instead of olive oil, you can use butter or a mixture of olive and butter.

3. Add the sweet pepper cubes to the onion, stir and continue to fry everything until the pepper pieces are soft (approximately 7 more minutes).

4. Break the eggs into a deep bowl and beat with a fork. Not very strong - so that the whites and yolks just mix well.

5. To the fried onions and peppers, add chopped tomatoes (along with the juice that stands out). Stir the vegetables, cover the pan with a lid and simmer until the amount of liquid in the pan is reduced by half (about 8-10 minutes).

6. If the tomatoes are not very ripe or do not have a rich taste, you can also add 0.5-1 tbsp. tomato paste.

7. Then add salt and ground red pepper to taste.

8. Pour the beaten eggs into the pan.

9. On low heat, stirring about once every 5-10 seconds, fry the mixture for another 1-2 minutes. Then turn off the heat, immediately cover the pan with a lid and let the dish brew for another 1-2 minutes (until the desired degree of readiness of the eggs). It is important that the mixture remains moist, slightly watery at the time the fire is turned off. Sometimes eggs are not even fried with vegetables, but after adding them to the pan, they immediately turn off the fire. Since the sauce is hot, after a couple of minutes, under the lid, the eggs will in any case be cooked in the residual heat of the cast-iron pan.

10. Menemen is ready. Bon appetit!