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Pipérade with Farm-Fresh Eggs
Created by Chef Ally
A slow-cooked Basque tangle of sweet peppers, ripe tomatoes, and onions folded with soft-scrambled eggs, the kind of morning dish that rewards patience and demands good bread.
Pipérade comes from the Basque Country, that green and mountainous stretch where France meets Spain and the peppers grow thick on the vine. The dish itself is simple: peppers, tomatoes, onions, cooked slowly until they lose their structure and become something new. Then eggs, folded through at the last moment.
The secret is time. You cannot rush a pipérade. The peppers need thirty minutes of gentle heat to surrender their sweetness. The tomatoes need to break down into the mix. By the time you add the eggs, the vegetables have become a kind of jam, sweet and smoky and soft.
Buy your peppers from someone who grows them. At the height of summer, they should feel heavy and smell faintly sweet even through their skins. The tomatoes should give slightly when pressed and perfume your hands. Eggs from pastured hens, with their deep orange yolks, make all the difference in a dish this simple.
Every meal is a meaningful choice. This one says: I have time. I have good ingredients. I will let them become what they want to become.
Ingredients
red bell peppers
Quantity
3 large
stemmed, seeded, and sliced into thin strips
green bell peppers
Quantity
2 large
stemmed, seeded, and sliced into thin strips
yellow onion
Quantity
1 large
halved and thinly sliced
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| red bell peppersstemmed, seeded, and sliced into thin strips | 3 large |
| green bell peppersstemmed, seeded, and sliced into thin strips | 2 large |
| yellow onionhalved and thinly sliced | 1 large |
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