Menemen is a Turkish dish made by scrambled eggs into a simple tomato and pepper sauce, and I’m very exciting to show you my extra lux version. This amazing recipe is very easy, comes together quickly, and is probably unlike any other scrambled eggs you’ve ever had. Just be sure to have plenty of baguette around for dipping. Enjoy!
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Finally! A recipe where onions are OPTIONAL.
It was close.. but Joshua Weisman just had this up against Filipino Longsilog… and the Longsilog won… both look awesome… and if I visit those countries.. I will try them… but for now am sticking to my Full English!
Menemem made it to the finals in Josh W's video. What a coincidence!
About cheese: around the Aegean coast, the most popular cheese to use would be İzmir tulum cheese. Since it is difficult to find abroad, the closest alternative is the kefalotyri cheese from the Greek side of the Aegean. The second most popular cheese would be kaşar. Again, if you can't find it, the Greek kasseri is practically the same cheese. If you cannot find kasseri either, I'd recommend provolone. Kaşar, kasseri, and provolone are "pasta filata" cheeses, they have similar texture and taste.
I added andouille sausage, feta cheese and KALAMATA olives. So good.
Thank you thank you thank you! I've been trying to tell people about this fabulous dish! I'm so excited! We make this so often. Pardon my exclamation marks. I'm just so pleased to see this. Woot woot!
I usually start by making shakshuka but end up with menemen…oh well, it's tasty either way.
AND you used freakishly small wooden spoon! You are awesome. Woo!
“Menemen”
Doo doooo di dooo dooo!”🎶🎶
Is he doing this weird voice on purpose? Every sentence the same extreme rise and fall? It was so distracting I couldn’t make it all the way thru.
Turk here. And a long time fan. You absolutely hit a very sweet spot about that onion comment at the beginning. It's a big ongoing controversy here but just as you said, and maybe also since onions can be bad for sensitive stomachs early in the morning, the more widely accepted version for breakfest is without onions. I however prefer them with onions in the morning as well 😀
Andrew Rea would like to know your location
Thanks dude for not using music! I appreciate it very much!
sound likes the "mufa" (yinx) family name of a argentinian and luckly dead ex president
Mozzarella is a buffalo cheese, which is rare in Turkey. Cheese we use for menemen is more similar to cheddar (not matured) or Bulgarian Kashkaval. Mozzarella however would go well too. I prefer the well scrambled version, however most recipes recommend not to scramble, but just mix a bit.
I always get the Menemen confused with the Amish. I think one is in PA? I can never remember.
1:52 – is that your salt spoon, by any chance? 🙂
As someone who is just starting out on his chilli and peppers journey, I have to say that it is easy to make a mistake with unknown peppers, but especially with their seeds. And so I prefer to strip out seeds, and then add them back with my known-hot pepper flakes and seeds. I also note that frying even quite hot finely chopped chilli peppers makes them considerably less hot. And – be careful! Always wash hands very carefully after chopping peppers, and Please: For Goodness' Sake, do NOT rub your eyes when fingers loaded with capsaicin! It hurts greatly.
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I appreciate that you get ALL of your chopped ingredients out of the bowls. Irks me when they don't.
In our country we have the same food called "Moravské lečo". We do them sometimes with cheese, sometimes with sausage, and sometimes with both 🙂
Kids spoon 🤗
not to be confused with 50 cent’s ‘many men’
Love the recipe, love the narrator's rising tones on every sentence like Will Forte's asking a question
Yum!
Omg. This looks amazing.
0:07 Menemen… sounds like a breakfast 50 Cent would rap about: ‘Many men… wish death upon me… but first, pass the bread for this fire menemen!’
Similar to Shakshouka but I still prefer Cilbir.
This is essentially an Ancient Roman dish. This is precisely how Ancient Romans ate. Make a hearty thick spicy stew with peppers, olive oil, eggs and whatever meat, cheese and vegetables you have and dip bread in it and eat it. It doesn't require utensils and it can be cooked in one pot over a single fire.
In my family we do a 'huevos rancheros' that I'm not at all sure is authentic, but it is incredibly similar to this, with 2 small adjustments – flour tortillas and not scrambling the eggs into things. This dish is insanely satisfying
HEY FOOD WISHES: I've altered a recipe I've come to enjoy. Make a Spanish omelet, but prepare the potatoes with green onion and toss them in Frank's Redhot. Cook them until the sauce is sticky, then add the egg.
Will Forte has a cooking channel?
Take the end result and spread it on thick bread with an extra layer of cheese on on top, then toast in the oven until the cheese browns
I appreciate you making a vegetarian version. ❤
clearly the universe is trying to say something, because this is the second time today that Menemen has been suggested to me.
If you can get it somehow in the US, I recommend trying to add some Sucuk (Turkish sausage with garlic). It is fine to do it without (to keep vegetarian for example), but my family loves it with Sucuk for dinner.
..wish death upon me, lord I don't cry no more, don't look to the sky no more.