Spanish Eggs!

So, these are Jodi Style, which means there’s lots of hidden veggies 😀 I have NEVER made spanish eggs before, but just spontaneously wanted to (we ran out of meat lol). I didn’t like the recipes online though, so made this up… the smoky paprika mimics the flavour of bacon or chorizo 🙂

Oh, and my husband recently surprised me with a Thermomix, so the recipe is suited to that. You should be able to work it out for the stovetop though – just finely chop everything, reduce the sauce, and use a stick blender if you like! Happy cooking!! x

Ingredients

• 1 red chilli
• 2 massive cloves of garlic, or lots of little ones lol
• 1 red onion, quartered
• good glug of olive oil
• 1/2 red capsicum quartered
• 1 carrot quartered
• 1 (long skinny) eggplant, chopped
• fresh basil
• fresh thyme
• fresh oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
• tiny pinch cayenne pepper
• 1.5 teaspoons SMOKEY paprika
• 3 tomatoes chopped
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• good pinch Himalayan salt
• 4 eggs
• extra
• salt
• grated cheese
• creamed corn&beans for serving?
• fried flatbread for serving?

Met

1. Blitz chilli and garlic in the thermomix on speed 8, add onion, blitz for a few seconds on speed 6 until chopped, add oil, saute for 4 minutes on 100C, Reverse, speed 1. Prepare other veg.
2. Add through the MC vent: capsicum, carrot, eggplant. Blitz, off Reverse, on speed 7 for a few seconds to chop veg.
3. Add tomato and herbs, tomato paste and salt. Cook 100C, 10 mins, Reverse, speed 1.
4. Take off Reverse, Blitx on speed 7 for a few seconds, to get the sauce to the consistency you want. I wanted it slightly chunky.
5. Cook for another 5 minutes on 100C, Reverse, speed 1.
6. Pour into an oven dish, drop in 4 eggs, and sprinkle over a pinch of salt. Bake in a preheated 180C (160C fan forced) oven until eggs are cooked to your liking.
7. Sprinkle with cheese and serve. We had it with creamed corn and (4 bean mix) beans that were cooked in the TMX while the eggs wehodre baking. And also with some paratha (mixing our cultures!). Kids loved it – freaking delicious!!!