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Approachable Turkish cooking — silky yogurt-poached eggs, stuffed flatbreads, simit, and mezze the Pepper community pulls off on a weeknight.

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Turkish EggsDinner

Turkish Eggs

This egg dish is the perfect weekend brunch meal!

15 min430 cal20 g proteinServes 246 saves
Gabriella QuilleGabriella Quille

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Full fat Greek yogurt
  • 2 cloves Garlic, minced
  • 3 tbsp Butter
  • 1 1/2 tsp Smoked paprika
  • 1/8-1/4 tsp Cayenne pepper
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 tbsp Vinegar
  • Dill to garnish
  • Bread to serve
  • Salt

Instructions

  1. 1Bring a small pot of water to a boil.
  2. 2Add butter to a skillet over medium heat and melt. Once it melts, stir frequently until you see clear bubbles form, then watch for the butter to foam and begin to brown. The whole process will take about 5 minutes. Once the butter is brown, remove it from the heat and mix in the spices.
  3. 3Combine yogurt, minced garlic, and salt to taste. When the water is boiling, turn the heat down and place a metal bowl over your pot and add yogurt, careful that the bottom isn’t touching the water. Mix intermittently until it’s warm. Then remove and cover. Keep the pot of boiling water to poach the eggs.
  4. 4Crack eggs and strain in a fine mesh sieve to remove some of the whites that are runny. Add vinegar to the water and use your spoon to swirl, while the water is swirling, drop in your eggs and cook for 3-4 minutes. About half way through slide a spatula underneath them to ensure they aren’t sticking to the bottom.
  5. 5Plate your yogurt into flat bowls, top it with an egg, drizzle over the brown butter, garnish with dill, and top with flakey salt!

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Why Turkish Cooking Wins the Table

Turkish food leans on a short list of pantry heroes — good yogurt, olive oil, sumac, Aleppo pepper, and warm bread.

Cooks on Pepper love that the recipes scale up for a table: one flatbread, one big salad, a pot of lentil soup, and dinner reads like a mezze spread.

It's a cuisine built for slow eating, and the ratios of tangy, garlicky, and herby are easy to nail even the first time.

Quick Tips

  1. 1

    Warm the yogurt gently

    Full-fat Greek yogurt over a water bath — not direct heat — or it breaks.

  2. 2

    Brown butter with intention

    Watch it foam and smell nutty, then kill the heat before it burns.

  3. 3

    Aleppo over red pepper flakes

    Aleppo is smokier and less harsh — worth ordering online if you can't find it local.

  4. 4

    Serve with bread

    Pide, simit, or pita — Turkish food is meant to be scooped, not forked.

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