http://leitesculinaria.com/21020/recipes-eggs-in-purgatory.html This James Beard Award-winning site from David Leite offers food writing, cookbook and Portuguese recipes, giveaways, more. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:47:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://leitesculinaria.com/21020/recipes-eggs-in-purgatory.html#comment-7186 Testers Choice Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:49:23 +0000 http://leitesculinaria.com/?p=21020#comment-7186 [Sue Epstein] This is a very common dish in Israel, called shakshuka, and I've made/eaten it too many times to count. It is often served here in the mini cast-iron frying pan in which it was cooked. This is an excellent recipe for it, well worth the trouble of using fresh tomatoes rather than canned. It looks lovely, has a punchy, delicious, spicy, tomatoey taste and makes an excellent dish for brunch, lunch, or a light weeknight dinner. My only advice is that if fresh, ripe, good-quality tomatoes aren't available, you may use canned crushed tomatoes (not tomato sauce or paste). If using canned tomatoes, you might add a drop or two of Tabasco Sauce to add zest to it. The fresh tomatoes, however, give this dish a real punch, take it out of the ordinary, and really make a difference. [Sue Epstein] This is a very common dish in Israel, called shakshuka, and I’ve made/eaten it too many times to count. It is often served here in the mini cast-iron frying pan in which it was cooked. This is an excellent recipe for it, well worth the trouble of using fresh tomatoes rather than canned. It looks lovely, has a punchy, delicious, spicy, tomatoey taste and makes an excellent dish for brunch, lunch, or a light weeknight dinner. My only advice is that if fresh, ripe, good-quality tomatoes aren’t available, you may use canned crushed tomatoes (not tomato sauce or paste). If using canned tomatoes, you might add a drop or two of Tabasco Sauce to add zest to it. The fresh tomatoes, however, give this dish a real punch, take it out of the ordinary, and really make a difference.

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