Menemen (food)

Menemen is a popular traditional Turkish dish that includes eggs, tomato, green peppers, and spices such as ground black and red pepper cooked in olive oil. Menemen is commonly eaten for breakfast and served with bread. Its name originates from a small town in İzmir Province. Menemen may be made with onions, but the addition of onions is often debated and is more common when the dish is eaten as a main dish, rather than at breakfast.

Menemen is similar to the Maghrebi dish shakshouka, widely spread and popular across North Africa and the Levant, and to the Hungarian lecsó and Serbo-Croat sataraš which likely have descended from Menemen during the Ottoman imperial period. Turkish şakşuka, although it shares the same etymology as shakshouka (from a North African Arabic dialect meaning "mixed"), is a completely different dish which does not include eggs. Menemen is also different from çılbır, a classic Turkish dish made of poached eggs mixed with yoghurt instead of tomatoes.