Menemen
Turkish soft-scrambled eggs cooked down with green peppers and tomato, eaten straight from the pan with bread.
- Serves
- 4
- Total time
- 23 min
- Cost per serving (United States)
- $6.34
Ingredients
- 8 large eggs
- 2 green bell pepper
- 1 lb roma tomatoes
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 3 oz crumbled feta cheese(optional)
- 1 sourdough loaf
Method
Heat the olive oil in a wide skillet over medium and cook the chopped green peppers for 5 minutes until they soften and smell sweet.
Add the grated or finely chopped tomato and the pepper flakes. Simmer 6 to 8 minutes until most of the liquid cooks off and the mixture looks jammy.
Beat the eggs lightly with the salt and pour them over the tomato base.
Stir slowly and only a few times, letting big soft curds form. Menemen should stay loose and glossy, not dry.
Pull the pan off the heat while it still looks underdone.
Crumble feta over the top and serve with thick slices of toasted bread.
What this costs, country by country
Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.
| Country | Whole recipe | Per serving | Priced from |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | £25.60 | £6.40 | 7 of 7 ingredients |
| Canada | $69.43 | $17.36 | 7 of 7 ingredients |
| Spain | 18,25 € | 4,56 € | 7 of 7 ingredients |
| United States | $25.35 | $6.34 | 6 of 7 ingredients |
| Australia | $45.86 | $11.47 | 6 of 7 ingredients |
| New Zealand | $45.68 | $11.42 | 6 of 7 ingredients |
| Greece | 18,42 € | 4,61 € | 6 of 7 ingredients |
| Egypt | ٥٥٩٫٠٩ ج.م. | ١٣٩٫٧٧ ج.م. | 5 of 7 ingredients |
| Mexico | $607.62 | $151.91 | 5 of 7 ingredients |
| Austria | € 16,05* | € 4,01 | 4 of 7 ingredients |
| Germany | 7,93 €* | 1,98 € | 2 of 7 ingredients |
* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.
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