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  • Vegetarian
  • Lactose free
  • Gluten free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for breakfast
  • Good for dinner

Less suited for lunch.

Four servings of Turkish scrambled eggs with tomatoes and peppers.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,030 g

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Ingredients

  • 20 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 250 gPeppers, sweet, red, raw
  • 600 gTomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average
  • 240 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
  • 6 gSalt, table
  • 2 gSpices, paprika

Method

  1. Seed and dice the pepper; dice the tomatoes. Crack the eggs into a bowl with salt and lightly combine them with a fork.
  2. Heat oil in a pan to 175 °C, add pepper and fry for 6 minutes. Stir in tomatoes and sweet paprika and cook at 92 °C for 8 minutes until loose juice has evaporated.
  3. Reduce heat to 145 °C, pour in the eggs and fold them slowly from the edges to the centre with a broad spatula for 3 minutes. Remove when the eggs are glossy and still slightly soft.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
698.6 kcal
Protein
38.2 g
Fat
45 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
41.2 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
13.1 g
Saturated fatty acids
10.6 g
Sodium
2,708 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
6.8 g

Per serving

Energy
174.7 kcal
Protein
9.5 g
Fat
11.3 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
10.3 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
3.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
2.7 g
Sodium
677 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.7 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
67.8 kcal
Protein
3.7 g
Fat
4.4 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
1.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
1 g
Sodium
262.9 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.66 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Egg

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal