Name: Fritada
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4 for brunch
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley; 1 to 2 ounces crumbled or grated feta cheese (4 to 6 tablespoons); 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil; 1 teaspoon hot paprika; 2 whole eggs plus 6 egg whites or 1¼ cups egg substitute; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 tomatoes, seeded and finely chopped; 1 red or green bell pepper, finely chopped; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 bunch of scallions, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4
for brunch

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

Healthy Jewish Cooking

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2000

About

Turkey generally has treated Jews well, which is not something you can say about many of the countries in the world. When Spain expelled its Jews in 1492 at the height of the Inquisition, Sultan Bayazid II of Turkey welcomed the outcasts. His gesture may have been humanitarian, but it brought to the Ottoman Empire a highly educated and motivated class of scientists, physicians, and merchants. Turkey would become and remain the preeminent power of the Near East for another four hundred years