Yottam Ottolenghi’s Plenty was one of our favorite pre-heart attack cookbooks. Ottolenghi uses too much fat and salt in his recipes, but most of them are easily lightened-up and that’s what I tried to do here.
Shakshuka is an Israeli dish that means “everything mixed together,” and it’s super easy to make. It’s a super-quick dinner for a weeknight (meatless and cheap, too!)
It’s also sweet! I was happy that a tablespoon of sugar was all it took to get my kindergartener to eat a bunch of onions and bell peppers.
I served this with slices of crusty no-knead bread. We bake our own bread so we can control the sodium content, and I’ll write a full bread tutorial pretty soon.
Shakshuka
Servings: 4
Calories: 272kcal
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup onion (thinly sliced)
- 2 bell peppers (thinly sliced)
- 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 3 roma tomatoes (chopped)
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
- ¼ teaspoon paprika
- 1 bay leaf
- 8 eggs
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 pinch ground black pepper
- ¼ cup fresh parsley (chopped)
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat.
- Cook the onions, peppers and garlic until tender-crisp
- Add the tomatoes, sugar, thyme, paprika, and bay leaf. Turn up the heat until the mixture boils.
- Turn the heat down to medium-low and let it simmer about 15 minutes until the tomatoes are soft.
- Make 8 little holes in the pepper/onion/tomato mixture and drop an egg into each little hole. Cover the skillet with a lid and continue to simmer for about 5 to 8 more minutes, until the eggs are cooked.
- Scoop out the eggs and vegetables into serving bowls and top with parsley.
Soba Noodles With Eggplant & Mango
A lightened-up version of Yottam Ottolenghi's recipe
Check out this recipe
Baked turkey meatballs with red pepper spaghetti
Healthy turkey meatballs with a red pepper sauce
Check out this recipe
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
An easy vegan pasta dish with olives, capers, tomatoes and garlic simmered in a simple-to-throw-together sauce. Good for weeknights!
Check out this recipe