Tunisia / Breakfast
Tunisian chakchouka
Stewed peppers with tomato and harissa, eggs broken into the sauce at the end.
Ingredients
- Bell peppers5
- Tomatoes600 g
- Onions2
- Garlic5 cloves
- Harissa2 tbsp
- Tomato paste2 tbsp
- Ground caraway1 tsp
- Ground coriander1 tsp
- Eggs6
- Olive oil80 ml
- Capers2 tbsp
- Bread, to serve400 g
- Salt and pepperto taste
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Method 7 steps
Char the peppers over a flame until the skin blackens, cover them with a bowl for ten minutes and peel them.
Cut the peeled peppers into strips, the tomatoes into dice and the onion into slices.
Fry the onion and garlic in olive oil until soft, eight minutes.
Stir in the harissa, tomato paste, caraway and coriander and cook them two minutes.
Add the peppers and tomatoes, season and stew twenty minutes to a thick paste.
Make wells in the sauce with a spoon and break an egg into each.
Cover and cook six minutes, until the whites set and the yolks stay liquid.





