Menemen (food)

Menemen
Turkish breakfast with menemen (left)
CourseBreakfast
Place of originTurkey
Region or stateMenemen, İzmir Province[1][2]
Main ingredientsEggs, tomato, green peppers, and spices such as ground black and red pepper, salt and oregano, onion, garlic, chili powder
Food energy
(per serving)
~120 kcal
Similar dishesShakshouka

Menemen is a popular traditional Turkish dish[3] that includes eggs, tomato, green peppers, and spices such as ground black and red pepper cooked in olive oil.

Menemen may be made with onions, but the addition of onions is often debated and is more common when menemen is eaten as a main dish, rather than at breakfast. The dish is similar to Egyptian dish shakshouka also found in other Arab countries.

Menemen is commonly eaten for breakfast and served with bread.[4] Its name originates from a small town in Izmir Province.[5]

This dish is also similar to Hungarian Lecsó and Serbo-Croat Sataraš which might have descended from Menemen during the Ottoman imperial period.

  1. ^ "Menemen denince ilk akla gelen lezzet; Menemen Yemeği". İzmir Kültür ve Turizm Dergisi (in Turkish). Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. ^ Yaşin, Mehmet (9 July 2016). "Yaz sofralarının kraliçesi menemen". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  3. ^ Dionne, Emily; Ray, Erin (2014-04-04). The Spicy Paleo Cookbook. F+W Media. ISBN 9781440574344. Retrieved 21 December 2014.[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ Turkish Cookery, M. Işın Günür (1990). ISBN 975-479-100-7.
  5. ^ The Jewish Cookbook, L. Koenig (2019). ISBN 9780714879338.