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Arabian Buttered Eggs With Mint & Lemon

Here's how you make Arabian Buttered Eggs With Mint & Lemon
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  • Servings: 6
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 20m
  • The following recipe serves 6 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 400 gram bread loaf (Turkish bread loaf, halved horizontally)
  • 70 ml olive oil (extra virgin)
  • 1 red onion (large onion, halved and thinly sliced)
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 lemons, whole (juiced)
  • 150 grams butter, chopped
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1 1/4 cups Greek yogurt (Greek-style, plain)
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried chilli flakes
  • 1/2 bunch fresh mint, leaves picked (see note at end of instructions)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 200C/180C fan forced.

  • Step 2: Place bread halves, cut side up on a baking tray and drizzle with 2 tablespoon oil and season with salt and pepper and bake for 10 minutes or until golden and toasted.

  • Step 3: Meanwhile, heat remaining oil in a large non-stick frying pan over medium-low heat and add onion and salt and cook, stirring occasionally for 8 minutes or until soft and then add 2 teaspoons lemon juice and stir to combine, and then transfer to a bowl and wipe pan clean.

  • Step 4: Melt 3 teaspoons butter in the pan over medium-low heat and crack 2 eggs into the pan cook for 2 minutes or until whites are set but yolks are still runny and using a spatula, carefully transfer eggs to a baking paper lined tray and then repeat twice more with 1 1/2 teaspoon remaining butter remaining eggs.

  • Step 5: Place bred halves on a large platter or chopping board and spoon 3 mounds of yoghurt at intervals along each piece and top with onion and eggs.

  • Step 6: Return frying pan to medium heat and add remaining butter, garlic and cumin to pan and cook stirring for 1 minutes or until fragrant and then add remaining lemon juice and season with salt and cook for 1 minute or until bubbling.

  • Step 7: Drizzle butter mixture over eggs and sprinkle with chilli flakes and mint and cut each bread half into three pieces and serve immediately.

  • Step 8: NOTE - leave the small mint leaves whole and roughly chop the larger leaves.


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