We're halfway to 30!! For my 15th meal I decided to make Shakshuka, which is a North African breakfast dish that has become very popular in middle eastern countries like Israel. This is due to North African Jewish people immigrating to Israel. While I chose to present Shakshuka as being a Libyan dish, its ancestry is debated between multiple countries like Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt, so I am just referring to it as a North African meal.
As for the meal itself, it is a tomato stew with a slight bit of heat and then eggs are cracked into it. We were lucky enough to have fresh tomatoes is the garden so I was so happy to take advantage of those while making this. Other than tomatoes and eggs, I used some red peppers, sweet paprika, cumin, lots of garlics and then some red pepper flakes and Aleppo pepper flakes for the heat. I also topped it with some goat cheese and parsley. The tomatoes peppers and spices are left to simmer for a while to create the flavourful stew and then the eggs are added in and poached within the stew. I also served this with some homemade herb butter toast to make sure we could mop up any remainding stew.
I loved the way this turned out and my wife actually said this her favourite meal so far in this little adventure of mine. I think it will be a go to, especially on cold winter weekends, it really feels like a great comfort meal.Â
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15 down, 15 to go. Thank you so much for reading and following along on this journey. Below find more photos and an updated map.
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Cheers,
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Brandon
