Sweet and sour lentil shakshuka

Name: Sweet and sour lentil shakshuka
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Cuisine: Asian, Middle Eastern, African
Ingredients: 300g black or green lentils; 1 tbsp sunflower or rapeseed oil; 2 onions diced; 2 red peppers diced; 2 cloves garlic crushed; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp ground coriander; 400g tin or 300g passata chopped tomatoes; 2 tbsp tamarind paste; 2 tsp soft light brown sugar; 100g full-fat natural yogurt plus 150g to serve; ½ lemon juiced; 4 eggs; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 1 tsp coriander seeds; a handful coriander chopped; warmed naans or chapattis to serve

Instructions

Cook:1h 45min

Jazz up your weekend brunch and make this veggie shakshuka with lentils and punchy spice. This simple egg recipe is not only easy to make it's low in calories, too

Updated at: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:48:28 GMT