Shakshuka

On Thursday I was given a bag of tomatoes. They were almost too ripe.

I asked online for some suggestions of what to do with them and shakshuka jumped out at me. I love shakshuka. Its one of my favourite Israeli dishes. And its an all in one pan cook and serve recipe so very little washing up!

Ingredients

• Oil for frying
• 1 x onion, diced
• 1 x red pepper, diced
• 8 x tomatos, diced
• Garlic
• Spices (usually cayenne pepper or something a little spicy)
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 6 x eggs

Method

• Heat the oil in a large, heavy pan. You can split the ingredients into two smaller pans if you want to serve the shakshuka in personal servings.
• Throw in the onion and saute until golden.
• Add the red pepper and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Add the tomato and garlic and stir until its all mixed together. Simmer on medium heat for 10 minutes or until the mixture starts to reduce.

• Add the spices, salt and pepper to taste.
• Now the fun part, crack the eggs directly on top of the tomato mixture, making sure they are evenly spaced.

• Cover and simmer until the eggs are done to your tastes, less time for runny eggs, more time for hard eggs.
• Serve directly from the pan with a side of fresh white bread to mop up the sauce.

I served mine on a plate because it looked pretty 😉

Cinnamon toast for tea…

On Fridays at Aarons play school the kids bake or cook treats to eat at snack time.  This Friday they made cinnamon toast and I thought I would give it a bash today to eat with our afternoon tea.

Ingredients

• Slices of bread, I found almost stale bread works best
• Margarine or butter
• Sugar
• Cinnamon

What to do

• Turn your oven on to 180°C
• Spray&Cook a baking sheet.
• Butter each slice of bread quite thickly.

• Place slices of bread on the baking sheet.
• Mix the sugar and cinnamon together and sprinkle all over the bread and butter.

• Place baking sheet into the oven and leave fr about 10 minutes.
• Remove from oven once sugar has melted.

• Enjoy with a cup of tea.