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Fried Eggs with Turkish Sucuk (dried sausage) – Sucuklu Yumurta


This is, for me, one of the main pieces of the ultimate Turkish weekend brunch (along with the delicious olives, white cheese (similar to feta), sliced cucumbers and tomatoes, home made jam, honey, Simit, Turkish bread rings with sesame coating- and many more). And I sure will visualize myself enjoying this feast by a café along the Bosphrous in Istanbul, an ultimate treat, whenever we’re back home.

Shaped like a horseshoe, sucuk is a cured sausage made with lamb or beef and flavored with garlic, cumin and red pepper flakes. In rural areas, people make their own sucuk with variety of spices and hang them outside to cure. Most Middle Eastern markets carry sucuk, if you can’t find them; you may like to try with chorizo sausage or any other dried cured sausages or pastrami of your choice. How about adding a chopped tomato into the mixture.? Simply saute the sliced sucuk with chopped tomatoes for a few minutes before cracking the eggs, juicy tomatoes go well with the spicy sausace and eggs.

Eggs with Turkish sucuk (spicy sausage) and tomatoes, Domatesli, sucuklu yumurta - Ultimate Turkish breakfast!

Eggs with Turkish sucuk (spicy sausage) and tomatoes, Domatesli, sucuklu yumurta – Ultimate Turkish breakfast!

Serves 2 generously

Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 5 minutes

115gr/4oz Turkish sucuk (or any dried sausage or pastrami of your choice, if preferred), sliced

1 tomato, coarsley chopped (optional)
2-4 medium free range eggs
30ml/2 tablespoon olive oil
5ml/1 teaspoon ground cumin
5ml/1 teaspoon red pepper (or paprika) flakes
Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Crusty bread to serve
Sliced tomatoes and cucumbers to serve by the side

Heat the oil in the frying pan. Stir in the sliced sucuk (or your choice of dried sausage or pastrami) and chopped tomatoes (if used)  and sauté them for a minute or two until they start to brown. Scatter the sausages around the edges of the pan forming a circle. Crack the eggs in the middle and cook for a few minutes on medium heat. Season with salt and pepper and sprinkle ground cumin and red pepper flakes over the eggs. Cook until the egg whites are set and the egg yolks still runny.

Serve hot with crusty bread and sliced tomatoes and cucumber by the side.

Afiyet Olsun,

Ozlem

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7 Responses to Fried Eggs with Turkish Sucuk (dried sausage) – Sucuklu Yumurta

  1. Turkey's For Life May 19, 2015 at 7:46 am #

    Ohhhh, we just love sucuk and eggs so much. It’s quite possibly the best pairing of two foods, ever – and then with the addition of some fresh Turkish bread, too…perfection. 🙂
    Julia

    • Ozlem Warren May 19, 2015 at 8:36 am #

      Many thanks for stopping by Julia, I need my sucuk & egg fix during weekends too, such a treat : ) Enjoy that wonderful pide ekmek with it at home! Selamlar, Ozlem

  2. Alan Jones November 16, 2019 at 6:17 pm #

    Merhaba, Ozlem,
    My son in law, Aycan has given me some sucuk to cook for breakfast, and I now have a recipe!
    Tesserkurler

    • Ozlem Warren November 25, 2019 at 9:48 pm #

      Afiyet olsun dear Alan, very happy to hear it!,
      Ozlem

  3. ANDREAS CHRISTODOULOU December 12, 2020 at 1:06 pm #

    It is very tasty and i love it but…..but still NOT healthy at all

    • Ozlem Warren December 14, 2020 at 10:25 am #

      Thank you for stopping by; you can add tomatoes and other veg in this dish, and serve with sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers by the side, along with olives. It will be a balanced and enjoyable breakfast, Mediterranean style, Afiyet Olsun,
      Ozlem

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  1. Pig and Whistle - June 15, 2016

    […] Sucuk & eggs with a fresh baguette. Sucuk is a Turkish spiced sausage and traditionally served for breakfast cooked in a pan with eggs then eaten on some bread. It was a breakfast staple whilst we were on our honeymoon in Turkey and it has since become her favourite food. Editor’s note: Want to give sucuk a go? Here’s Deniz’s go-to recipe.  […]

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