Chakchouka

Ingredients

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• 4 Tomatoes
• 2 Tbsp vegetable broth 🛒
• 1 Diced Onion
• 1 sliced Red Pepper
• 1 sliced Green Pepper
• 3 clove Garlic
• 1 tsp Cumin
• 1 tsp Paprika
• ¾ tsp Salt
• ½ tsp Chili Powder
• 4 flax egg

Method

1. Prep: mix 1 Tbsp ground flax + 3 Tbsp water, rest 5 min.
2. In a large cast iron skillet or sauté pan with a lid, heat vegetable broth over medium high heat.
3. Add the onion and sauté for 2-3 minutes, until softened.
4. Add the peppers and garlic, and sauté for an additional 3-5 minutes.
5. Add the tomatoes, cumin, paprika, salt, and chili powder.
6. Mix well and bring the mixture to a simmer.
7. Reduce the heat to medium low and continue to simmer, uncovered, 10-15 minutes until the mixture has thickened to your desired consistency. (Taste the sauce at this point and adjust for salt and spice, as desired.) Using the back of a spoon, make four craters in the mixture, large enough to hold an egg.
8. Crack one egg into each of the craters.
9. Cover the skillet and simmer for 5-7 minutes, until the flax egg have set.
10. Serve immediately with crusty bread or pita.

About the ingredients

Tomatoes Solanum lycopersicum

Whole fruit of the tomato plant (botanically a berry, culinary vegetable). 'Organic' denotes a farming method, not a distinct ingredient. Raw whole fruit, rich in lycopene, vitamin C, potassium. WFPB-canonical.

vegetable broth

A salt-free, all-purpose vegetable broth. Onion, carrots, celery, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, kombu, parsley.

Onion Allium cepa

Bulb vegetable, eaten raw or cooked. Whole minimally-processed plant food; 'organic' refers to cultivation only. WFPB-canonical.

Red Pepper Piper nigrum

Dried unripe fruit (peppercorns) of the pepper vine, used whole or ground. A whole dried spice with nothing added or extracted. Canonical WFPB aromatic.

Garlic Allium sativum

Garlic itself is canonical, but extract denotes a concentrated/isolated derivative outside the whole-food canon. Marketed as natural/healthy supplement, hence mistaken-as-WFPB flag.

Cumin Cuminum cyminum

Dried seeds of Cuminum cyminum, an apiaceous herb. Whole spice, mechanically harvested and dried; matrix intact whether whole or ground. Canonical whole-plant seed spice.

Paprika Capsicum annuum

Ground spice made from dried, milled red peppers (Capsicum annuum), ranging sweet to hot/smoked. Whole-fruit powder, no additions. Source of vitamin A (carotenoids), vitamin E, capsaicin. Minimally processed whole-food spice, WFPB canonical.

Salt NaCl

Crystalline sodium chloride, harvested by evaporating seawater or mining rock-salt deposits. Used as seasoning and preservative since antiquity—central to trade and food economies for millennia. A mineral, not a plant food, and a sodium isolate; noncanonical to WFPB.

Chili Powder Capsicum annuum

Chili powder: in US usage, a ground blend of dried chili peppers (Capsicum annuum) with cumin, oregano, garlic powder, and often salt; elsewhere it means pure ground dried chili. New World crop, central to post-Columbian global cuisine. Sun-dried and milled whole pods. Canonical WFPB (blends may add salt).

flax egg

A whole-food plant-based egg replacer. One flax egg = one egg in baking.