- Prepare shakshuka
- While it is cooking, assemble salad
Spinach shakshuka
Shakshuka is a great breakfast, lunch or dinner that originated in Africa and is very popular in Israel. The traditional Shakshuka is with tomatoes but I love this twist on it. It tastes like a spinach quiche.
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Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 spicy green pepper use only a quarter, seeds removed and chopped
- 4 cloves garlic chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt pink Himalayan
- 1 cup fresh basil chopped
- 1 cup fresh cilantro chopped (optional)
- 2 cups spinach chopped
- 6 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Directions:
- Prepare a large skillet on high heat. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil and get hot. Add onions and cook, mixing, for 3 minutes. Add spicy pepper,garlic, salt and curry powder and 4 tablespoons of water and mix.
- Turn down heat to medium and add 1 tablespoon olive oil. Let cook for 5 minutes, mixing occasionally. Add fresh herbs and spinach and mix well.
- With a spoon, make 6 small holes in the mixture for the six eggs. Crack them and add them to the holes. Cover and let cook for 3-4 minutes, depending on how runny you like your eggs. Add more salt to taste and serve with warm whole wheat pita!
Notes & Tips:
Feel free to add your favorite cheese to the mix right after you add the eggs.
Enlarged Israeli salad
I love Israeli salad but it is very time consuming! Here is an alternative that is just as crunchy, fresh and flavorful but hardly any work at all. I used goat feta cheese for this because I love the flavor (and it is much less salt) but feel free to use regular feta cheese or Bulgarian cheese.
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Ingredients:
- 2 cucumbers sliced lengthwise
- 2 red peppers sliced
- 1 tomato sliced
- 1/2 box feta cheese goat cheese, cubed or crumbled
- 1/4 cup fresh basil chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh mint chopped
- 2 lemons cut in half, juiced
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- salt to taste
Directions:
- Add all ingredients to a bowl and serve
Notes & Tips:
Add salt according to taste.
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Leftover tips for tomorrow’s lunch:
Place all leftover shakshuka into a pita with some techina (tehini) and you will have a sandwich that all your coworkers wish they had!
Even though this salad is dressed it will hold over pretty well until tomorrow!
