Every place has a breakfast eggs dish that locals love. In this Weekend Eggs series, which we kicked off when we launched Grantourismo on New Year’s Day 2010, we recreate and reinterpret the quintessential breakfast eggs dishes we loved. If you enjoy this series, look out for our Weekend Eggs book in 2022.
Huevos con chorizo or scrambled eggs with chorizo is my favourite breakfast eggs dish ever. Our huevos con chorizo recipe for this edition of Weekend Eggs from Jerez deviates from the classic Mexican huevos revueltos con chorizo that we first fell in love with at Cafe El Popular in Mexico City years ago. For starters, … Read more
This North African chakchouka recipe makes poached eggs in a spicy tomato sauce. While it’s thought that chakchouka – also written as shakshuka, choukchouka and tchoutchouka – comes from Tunisia, chakchouka is found right across North Africa and the Middle East. We’ve eaten it everywhere from Morocco to the Levant countries of Lebanon, Syria and … Read more
Fast omelette making skills can come in handy when you’re in a hurry, when you have friends over for a weekend breakfast, whether you’re feeding a big family on holidays, or when you have a hungry wife. Here’s my fast omelette with bacon recipe. While we were in London I saw a TV cooking show where … Read more
There is nothing quite as relaxing as a late weekend eggs breakfast or a slow breakfast on a holiday. This scrambled eggs with Arabic sausage and za’atar toast recipe gives a Middle Eastern twist to classic scrambled eggs. Made in our Dubai villa rental kitchen, it’s the first recipe in our Weekend Eggs series of … Read more