Name: ADA CAFE KAHVALTI
Address: Tuzla, İnönü Blv. No:125 D:B, Fethiye, Muğla, 48300, TR
Telephone: 0507 328 18 04
Price range: €€
Rating: 3.8

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Eggs cooked slowly into a base of tomatoes and green peppers in a small two-handled pan, and served in that pan with bread: menemen is the hot dish of the Turkish breakfast table. The name is shared with a town near İzmir, though the dish is eaten from Edirne to Van and the link to the place is asserted more often than it is documented. Its closest neighbours are shakshuka, where the eggs are poached whole and the sauce is spiced with cumin and paprika, and the Basque pipérade, which uses sweet peppers and often ham. Menemen keeps the seasoning to salt, black pepper and sometimes pul biber, and the eggs are broken up, so the result is somewhere between a loose scramble and a stew. Whether onion belongs in it is a national argument; roughly half the country says it does.

The peppers go in first. Sivri biber, the long thin green ones, are sliced and sweated in butter or olive oil until soft, then grated or finely chopped tomatoes follow and cook down until the raw water has gone and the fat starts to show at the edges, usually ten to fifteen minutes. Only then are the eggs added, straight into the pan, and stirred gently over low heat. The target is eggs that have set into soft ribbons through the sauce, not a firm omelette and not a tomato soup with threads of white in it. A sahanda pan of copper or thin steel is traditional because it heats fast and comes to the table. Kaşar or beyaz peynir melted in at the end, or slices of sucuk fried first, are common additions; so is a spoon of biber salçası, though in İzmir that would be considered interference.

A good menemen is served the minute it stops moving, and it should still be glossy and slightly wet when the bread goes in, because the bread is the cutlery. Mark down eggs that have tightened into dry curds, tomatoes that still taste raw or acidic, and a thin, watery pan where the two never came together. The pepper should be present as a vegetable, not just as colour. Pre-made tomato sauce spooned over an omelette is a different dish and a common shortcut in hotel buffets. Decide where you stand on onion before you score it: a version with soğan is sweeter and softer, a version without is sharper and more about the egg. Both are correct in their own kitchens.

Menemen

Tadı güzel. Aile çalışıyor. Abi 2 yumurta ekler misin derseniz ekliyor. Baya sıcaktı tadı güzeldi. Ekmek de ekliyorlar isterseniz. Belki üstüne kaşar falan rendelenebilirdi. Ekmeği menemene banmayı seviyorum

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