Menemen

Dishes of sautéed peppers and tomatoes scrambled together with eggs are common to many parts of southern Europe and the Mediterranean. The French-Basque version, pipérade, includes onion, but I prefer this Turkish menemen, which doesn’t.

A popular quick meal at any time of the day, it is most commonly prepared in a double-handled metal skillet, to order, in small restaurants and pastry shops all over the country. The best peppers to use are long and pale with thin, moderately hot-ta