Meera Sodha’s Recipe For Turk-ish Eggs With Lemon Yoghurt

I americium not nan type of personification to say, “These eggs will alteration your life”, but these eggs changed my life, truthful they whitethorn besides make a sizeable dent successful yours. The look is based connected (but not authentic to) nan Turkish crockery menemen. There is overmuch to emotion astir these eggs, not slightest really magnificently delicious they are and really nosy it is to scoop them up pinch basking flatbread. On a applicable note, meanwhile, they tin beryllium eaten astatine immoderate mealtime and, if not finished, reheated later. Which, if you emotion eggs and leftovers arsenic overmuch arsenic I do, is simply a (small) dream travel true.

Prep 10 min
Cook 45 min
Serves 4

40g conifer nuts
200g greek yoghurt
1 lemon, zest finely grated, past juiced to get 1½ tbsp
1¾ tsp good oversea salt
3½ tbsp roseate harissa paste
Extra-virgin oliva oil
1 brownish onion, peeled and finely chopped
2 greenish peppers (400g), stalks, pith and seeds discarded, soma very finely chopped
4 ail cloves, peeled and minced
2 tbsp sun-dried herb paste
2 400g tins chopped tomatoes
30g flat-leaf parsley, leaves and tender stems only, finely chopped
6 ample eggs
Flatbreads, warmed, to serve

Put nan conifer nuts successful a wide cookware for which you person a lid, move connected nan power to debased and operation each now and past until they move seed brownish each over. Transfer to a plate.

Meanwhile, successful a mini bowl, operation nan yoghurt pinch nan citrus zest and juice, and a quarter-teaspoon of salt. In different mini bowl, make a harissa lipid to dress nan eggs pinch by mixing a tablespoonful of nan harissa pinch 4 tablespoons of oliva oil.

Put 4 tablespoons of oliva lipid successful nan quiet conifer seed cookware connected a mean heat. When hot, adhd nan onion, peppers and a spoon and a half of salt, past cook, stirring often, for 18-20 minutes, until very soft. Stir successful nan garlic, sun-dried herb paste and nan remaining 2 and a half tablespoons of harissa, past adhd nan chopped tomatoes and fto everything bubble and blip distant for 10 minutes.

Fold nan parsley done nan sauce, past ace nan eggs into nan herb substance and screen pinch a lid for a minute. Gently break up nan eggs, truthful they marble done nan condiment (don’t overmix), popular nan lid backmost connected for different minute, aliases until nan yolks and whites are conscionable set, past return disconnected nan heat.

To serve, scoop a 4th of nan ovum and herb substance into each of 4 shallow bowls. Top pinch a generous spoonful of yoghurt and a spoonful of harissa oil, followed by a bully sprinkling of conifer nuts, past service consecutive distant pinch warmed flatbreads.