Anyone ever make Breakfast Shakshuka

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BrianGSDTexoma

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I only eat breakfast on Saturdays and here lately not been doing that but having breakfast Friday or Saturday night. It part of my fasting thing but weekends are free. I do 16 to 18 hour a day fast during the week. I meet a buddy at Brewery about 11:30 on sat and if I eat I dont feel like drinking a beer. Anyway I going to do breakfast tomorrow or this could be for next week and thinking something different. Always want to make Shakshuka. Anyone have a recipe they use?
 
I have not tried this one yet, but it looks good.
 

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I've made it before for dinner--I'm not that ambitious at breakfast time. It was quite good. Finding the harissa paste (a North African chili paste) can be difficult, but larger groceries will often have it. I do see some recipes online that leave it out entirely, such as the one B Buckeye1 posted.

I'm not certain which recipe I used, it may have been this one (which does use harissa).

https://www.loveandlemons.com/shakshuka-recipe/
 
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I only eat breakfast on Saturdays and here lately not been doing that but having breakfast Friday or Saturday night. It part of my fasting thing but weekends are free. I do 16 to 18 hour a day fast during the week. I meet a buddy at Brewery about 11:30 on sat and if I eat I dont feel like drinking a beer. Anyway I going to do breakfast tomorrow or this could be for next week and thinking something different. Always want to make Shakshuka. Anyone have a recipe they use?
I LOVE shakshuka. This guy has had my go-to favorite recipe for several years:

 
This is an ATK recipe.

Ingredients:

4 (8-inch) pita breads, divided

1 (28-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, drained

3 cups jarred roasted red peppers, divided

¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil

4 garlic cloves, sliced thin

1 tablespoon tomato paste

2 teaspoons ground coriander

2 teaspoons smoked paprika

1 teaspoon ground cumin

½ teaspoon table salt

¼ teaspoon pepper

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper

8 large eggs

½ cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro leaves and stems

1 ounce feta cheese, crumbled (¼ cup)

¼ cup pitted kalamata olives, sliced

Instructions:

1.
Cut enough pita bread into ½-inch pieces to equal ½ cup (about one-third of 1 pita bread). Cut remaining pita breads into wedges for serving. Process pita pieces, tomatoes, and half of red peppers in blender until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Cut remaining red peppers into ¼-inch pieces and set aside.
2.
Heat oil in 12-inch skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Add garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, 1 to 2 minutes. Add tomato paste, coriander, paprika, cumin, salt, pepper, and cayenne and cook, stirring constantly, until rust-colored and fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in tomato–red pepper puree and reserved red peppers (mixture may sputter) and bring to simmer. Reduce heat to maintain simmer; cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened (spatula will leave trail that slowly fills in behind it, but sauce will still slosh when skillet is shaken), 10 to 12 minutes.
3.
Remove skillet from heat. Using back of spoon, make 8 shallow dime-size indentations in sauce (7 around perimeter and 1 in center). Crack 1 egg into small bowl and pour into 1 indentation (it will hold yolk in place but not fully contain egg). Repeat with remaining 7 eggs. Spoon sauce over edges of egg whites so that whites are partially covered and yolks are exposed.
4.
Bring to simmer over medium heat (there should be small bubbles across entire surface). Reduce heat to maintain simmer. Cover and cook until yolks film over, 4 to 5 minutes. Continue to cook, covered, until whites are softly but uniformly set (if skillet is shaken lightly, each egg should jiggle as a single unit), 1 to 2 minutes longer. Off heat, sprinkle with cilantro, feta, and olives. Serve immediately, passing pita wedges separately.
 
I havent, but now I want to! Love and Lemons has great recipes.
 
I make a version of this , kinda. We made it last night in fact.

What I make keeps in with SW cooking style. It’s technically called a “guisado” which translates into “stew”. But mine is full of either pork or beef. It has a tomato base but adds a red Chile making a technical “salsa” just loaded with flavor. We often poach eggs in the sauce, so rich and delicious. It’s a carnivore approach to shakshuka. But adds New Mexico red Chile. It’s called a guiso or stew because it combines a Chile adovada or Chile Colorado with a simple tomato salsa. Over the top delicious
 
We've made it a few times with a few different recipes. We haven't found a recipe that we like. The ones we have tried were one note - tomato.
 
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