Shakshouka is a Maghrebi dish of eggs poached in a sauce of tomatoes, olive oil, peppers, onion and garlic, commonly spiced with cumin, paprika and cayenne pepper. According to Joan Nathan, shakshouka originated in Ottoman North Africa in the mid-16th century after tomatoes were introduced to the region by Hernan Cortés as part of the Columbian exchange.

Categories: Breakfast Egg dish Meze Tomato dishes
Characteristic of: Algerian cuisine Arabic cuisine Berber cuisine Israeli cuisine Italian cuisine Libyan cuisine Mahgrebi cuisine Middle Eastern cuisine Mizrahi Jewish cuisine Moroccan cuisine Ottoman cuisine Sephardic Jewish cuisine Spanish cuisine Tunisian cuisine
Contains, including ancestors: Tomato Egg
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Wikidata ID: Q2474644
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Wikipedia article: Shakshouka
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Shakshouka

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