Shakshuka

  • Vegetarian
  • Lactose free
  • Gluten free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for breakfast
  • Good for lunch
  • Good for dinner

Four servings of eggs poached in a thick tomato and pepper sauce.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,190 g

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Ingredients

  • 25 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 150 gOnions, raw
  • 250 gPeppers, sweet, red, raw
  • 12 gGarlic, raw
  • 650 gTomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average
  • 3 gSpices, cumin seed
  • 3 gSpices, paprika
  • 7 gSalt, table
  • 240 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh

Method

  1. Dice the onion, cut the pepper into 1 cm pieces and slice the garlic thinly.
  2. Heat the oil in a wide pan to 170 °C. Fry onion and pepper for 6 minutes until soft but not browned; add garlic, cumin and paprika for the final 30 seconds.
  3. Stir in tomatoes and salt. Simmer uncovered for 16 minutes at 92 °C until a spoon drawn through the sauce briefly leaves a track.
  4. Make four wells in the sauce and crack an egg into each. Cover and cook for 5 minutes at 88 °C until the whites are opaque and the yolks remain runny.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
843.8 kcal
Protein
41.7 g
Fat
51.1 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
63 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
17.2 g
Saturated fatty acids
11.5 g
Sodium
3,112 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
7.8 g

Per serving

Energy
210.9 kcal
Protein
10.4 g
Fat
12.8 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
15.8 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
4.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
2.9 g
Sodium
778 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.9 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
70.9 kcal
Protein
3.5 g
Fat
4.3 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
5.3 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
1.4 g
Saturated fatty acids
0.96 g
Sodium
261.5 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.65 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