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A quick, nutritious breakfast of tomatoes, eggs and peppers to start the day well.

Ingredients

  • 3–4 tomatoes per person
  • 2–3 eggs per person
  • 1 red or green pepper
  • 1 spoon of tomato purée
  • 5 cl of water
  • 1 onion
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1 chilli pepper
  • Parsley
  • Paprika

Method

  1. Dice all the ingredients into cubes.

  2. In a hot pan, add a spoon of olive oil, then the onion, garlic, chilli pepper and tomato purée, and cook them for 2 minutes.

  3. Add the tomatoes, the pepper, the paprika and the water, stir, and cook for 5 to 10 minutes.

  4. Make little wells in the pan for the eggs, crack the eggs into them and cover the pan for 3 to 5 minutes, until the eggs are cooked.

  5. Finish with chopped parsley on top. Eat it with pita bread — my recipe for that is on this site.

I cook dishes like this one in people's homes across Cape Town.

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