In a pan, sauté 2 long green peppers with half a tea glass (about 50 ml / 3 tbsp + 1 tsp) of vegetable oil. Add 3 peeled and diced tomatoes on top. Add 1 dessert spoon of salt and, once the tomatoes are cooked, stir in 4 beaten eggs. Serve sprinkled with black pepper. (You can also sprinkle Aleppo pepper flakes if you like.) Enjoy your meal…

About This Recipe

There is no definitive record of when the tomato first arrived in our lands. However, based on collaborative studies by historians and scientists, it is believed that the tomato may have a history of around 300 years here, paralleling its development in Europe. Because it was initially consumed while still green, it was called "Frenk Badıcanı" (Foreign Eggplant), and was recorded under that name in related documents. Records in the monthly expense ledgers kept in 1723 by Damat İbrahim Pasha — who served as grand vizier to Sultan Ahmed III during the Tulip Era (1718–1730) — contain references to tomatoes being purchased. It is widely accepted that the spread of the tomato's known name in our country was influenced more by the French, French Levantine families, Turkish students studying in France at the time, and French teachers residing in Turkey than by the Italians. This is because while Italians called the tomato "pomodoro" (plural: "pomodori"), the French called it "tomate" (plural: "tomates").

The tomato — a blessing long regarded with suspicion and believed for many years to be poisonous… Its wild varieties are thought to have first grown in the pre-Columbian era in a broad region spanning the Andes Mountains in South Africa and the Peru–Ecuador–Bolivia area. It was brought to Central America and Mexico through the northward migration of indigenous peoples. The fruit of the Lycopersicon sp. (tomato) plant was generally called "tomate" or "tomato" by the people in the regions to which the indigenous peoples migrated. The reason for these names is quite simple: in the local language of that period, the word "tomati" was used to mean a juicy fruit with many seeds. The tomato was transported to Europe in the 1550s, after Christopher Columbus — who set sail on August 3, 1492 — discovered America on October 12, 1492. The Italians were the first to consume it. There is evidence that by the 1570s, the English and Spanish were growing tomatoes as ornamental plants. The French named it "pomme d'amour," the English "love apple," and the Italians "poma d'oro."

Taking inspiration from our Winter Menemen recipe — let's stock up right away — and now we move on to today's recipe. We have prepared our Menemen with Tomatoes (Domatesli Menemen) recipe for you. Bon appétit in advance…