You probably don’t think of this popular egg dish as African cuisine, but it is African food at its finest.
You probably don’t think of this as African cuisine. You probably don’t go down to your local cafe on a Sunday morning feeling like African. But that’s what one of Australia’s most popular brunch staples is: African. We’re talking shakshuka, the dish of spiced tomato sugo with sauteed onion and capsicum that’s baked in a shallow pan with raw eggs, which gently poach.After cooking to a point of set whites and runny yolks, the whole lot is topped with fresh herbs and served with crusty bread.
Culinary historians have noted the dish’s similarity to Turkish menemen, another tomato-based egg dish, which suggests the idea might have been adapted from Ottoman traditions. Indeed, there are stewed, tomato-based dishes throughout the Mediterranean, including one from Turkey called saksuka, which suggests a culinary criss-cross that took place over centuries. The same dish in Spain is called “huevos a la flamenca”; in Italy it’s “uovo in purgatorio”, or eggs in purgatory.
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