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Egyptian Shakshuka

Eggs poached into a spiced pepper and tomato sauce, cooked in the pan you serve it in. Bread on the table, no plates needed.

Egyptian Shakshuka, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
35 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$5.83

Ingredients

  • 8 large eggs
  • 28 oz canned diced tomatoes
  • 2 green bell pepper
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 2 clove garlic
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1/2 bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 4 pita bread

Method

  1. Slice the peppers and onion. Cook them in the oil over medium heat for 10 minutes, until soft and starting to colour at the edges.

  2. Add the crushed garlic, cumin and pepper flakes. One minute, no longer, or the spices catch.

  3. Pour in the tomatoes and simmer 10 minutes until the sauce holds a channel when you drag a spoon through it. Season well.

  4. Make eight hollows with the back of a spoon and crack an egg into each.

  5. Cover and cook 6 to 8 minutes, until the whites are set and the yolks still move when you shake the pan.

  6. Scatter the chopped parsley over and bring the pan to the table with warm pita.

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.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 10 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£20.13£5.0310 of 10 ingredients
Australia$36.95$9.249 of 10 ingredients
Canada$86.00$21.509 of 10 ingredients
Spain12,79 €3,20 €9 of 10 ingredients
Greece20,70 €5,18 €8 of 10 ingredients
United States$23.32$5.837 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$39.05$9.767 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏٦٥٧٫٣٨ ج.م.‏‏١٦٤٫٣٥ ج.م.‏7 of 10 ingredients
Germany14,59 €*3,65 €6 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$611.73*$152.936 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 12,30*€ 3,086 of 10 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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