Turkish sausage and baked eggs recipe (sucuklu yumurta)

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  • Cuisine: Turkish
  • Serves 2-4

This is a typical Turkish breakfast dish.

Ingredients

100g baby spinach leaves, washed
120g spicy or mild sucuk*, sliced on the diagonal
1 onion, finely chopped
2 tomatoes, roughly chopped
¾ tsp paprika
70g peyniri (Turkish cheese)* or fetta, crumbled
4 eggs
Extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle
Turkish pide or flat bread, to serve
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Preparation

Heat a frying pan over medium–high heat. Add spinach and cook for 30 seconds or until wilted. Remove and squeeze out excess water. Add sucuk to the pan and brown for 1 minute each side. Remove sucuk, reserving the fat in the pan. Add onion and stir for 5 minutes or until soft and golden. Add tomatoes and ½ tsp paprika, season with salt and pepper, and cook for 4 minutes or until tomatoes have broken down. Remove pan from heat.

Return the sucuk and spinach to the pan, stir to combine and spread over the base of the pan. Scatter over half the cheese. Make 4 indentations in mixture and crack in eggs. Top with remaining cheese and sprinkle with remaining ¼ tsp paprika. Cover, place over low–medium heat and cook for 5 minutes or until the egg whites are cooked but the yolks are still runny. Season.

Drizzle with oil and serve immediately in the pan with bread.

* Sucuk is a spicy, cured beef sausage available from Middle Eastern food shops and selected butchers. Substitute other spicy beef sausages.

* We used tulum peyniri, a sharp, salty cheese that’s wrapped in goat’s skin and is available from Turkish food shops.

Photography by Anson Smart.

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