This is your standard Moroccan shakshuka base of red bell peppers, onion, garlic stewed tomatoes, a lot of spices and served with a side of fresh baked bread. Except instead of poaching eggs in it I use a pound of ground beef and double the spices. It’s more like a Moroccan seasoned chili. So I gave it some avocado and sliced serrano.

Cost per person, $2.98 Partly because home made bread comes out to just 77¢ a pound, avocados are pretty cheap these days and the red bell peppers came from my garden.

This is your standard Moroccan shakshuka base of red bell peppers, onion, garlic stewed tomatoes, a lot of spices and served with a side of fresh baked bread. Except instead of poaching eggs in it I use a pound of ground beef and double the spices. It’s more like a Moroccan seasoned chili. So I gave it some avocado and sliced serrano.

Cost per person, $2.98 Partly because home made bread comes out to just 77¢ a pound, avocados are pretty cheap these days and the red bell peppers came from my garden.

It’s more like a Moroccan seasoned chili

They seems to agree

Looks good! What spices?

Are those jalapeños as well?

My shakahuka:

It’s more like a Moroccan seasoned chili

They seems to agree

I can’t find a difference from chili except maybe fewer peppers

Here is the base recipe. For the beef version I use the same amounts of the dry spices when browning the ground beef. I reserve the ground beef in a bowl and use the fat left in the pan instead of the oil to do the recipe. Then I add the beef back for the 20 minute simmer

Edit, I buy Indian coriander seeds at the international market. They are fatter and smell like Trix cereal. Super fruity. I grind it in a spice grinder as I need it.

Shakshuka.
2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil.
1 medium yellow onion chopped.
1 red pepper chopped.
4 garlic cloves, chopped.
1 teaspoon ground coriander.
2 teaspoons sweet paprika.
1 teaspoon ground cumin.
1 teaspoon chili powder.
1 Pinch red pepper flakes
Salt and pepper.
1 28-ounce can whole peeled tomatoes.
5 large eggs.
cup chopped fresh parsley leaves.
cup chopped cilantro leaves.
! Serve with crusty bread.

• Saute the onions and pepper on medium heat until translucent and maybe even a little browned
• Stir in the garlic and spices for 30 seconds
• Deglaze with the juice from the canned tomatoes
• Add the tomatoes and beat them up with a wooden spoon to break them down into smaller chunks
• Reduce heat to simmer and put the lid on.
• Simmer for 15 minutes
• Make a well for each egg and place an egg in each.
• Adjust heat to medium low.
• Put the lid back on and cook for 5 minutes
• Serve.

I buy Indian coriander seeds at the international market. They are fatter and smell like Trix cereal. Super fruity.

Interesting. I still have a large jar full of “normal” (I guess) coriander. I’ll have to make the comparison.

Is there a reason you use whole canned tomato if you just chop them up anyhow (around here, chopped tomatoes in tetra packs are very common)?

Also, is cumin as common a spice in Morocco as it is in, say, India?

Zero chili powder. If you have any chili recipe with ground coriander I’d love to see it.

There isn’t much difference between chili powder and paprika. I’ll sometimes use paprika and just dried peppers instead. Coriander is just the seeds of cilantro. It’s not far from a standard chili recipe

I’m going to disagree. Here is my prep for making two quarts of chili powder. I do this about once a year. Paprika is one pepper. It may or may not have heat. It may or may not be smoked. But even with those variables there is no way that can compare with the depth of flavor offered by three chilies, paprika, garlic cumin and oregano.

Coriander comes in two forms. American tiny seeds that don’t offer much and Indian which are considerably larger and have a very fruity aroma. Like kids fruit cereal levels of fruity.

I just do things separately when I want chili : cumin powder; poblano, guacho, serrano,; fresh garlic; cilantro. I live in Europe so I sometimes have to use coriander since it’s far easiest to come by than cilantro

But the seed isn’t a substitute for the herb. There is nothing in the flavor of the seed that would prepare anyone for what the leaves taste like

I know there’s a difference, but getting cilantro is a game of chance. That’s also why it’s pretty close to chili for me. Who’s to say coriander wasn’t part of authentic chili recipes? It’d be a lot easier than keeping fresh cilantro

We are no longer having a good faith conversation.

We have documentation. Ground coriander seed is as far removed from the original chili recipes as can be. We know the origins of chili. It’s well documented.

“Who’s to say” isn’t evidence. It’s wild speculation. It’s the equivalent of “we don’t know the reason so the reason is X” which is the Argument from Ignorance fallacy.

Ground coriander tastes nothing like fresh. One is not a substitute for the other. Fresh coriander on chilli is pretty rare too and seldom found outside of formerly Spanish held territory.

This is like chili. I said so in my original post. But saying that all you need is paprika and some coriander to season chili is like calling Taco Bell authentic Mexican food.

Zero chili powder. If you have any chili recipe with ground coriander I’d love to see it.

Zero chili powder. If you have any chili recipe with ground coriander I’d love to see it.

I use coriander in my chili, not saying this can’t be called a beef shakshuka though.

I make my own chili powders, never pre mixed, always with hella coriander as it’s my favorite of the Mexican (ergo Indian) spices.

We are no longer having a good faith conversation.

We have documentation. Ground coriander seed is as far removed from the original chili recipes as can be. We know the origins of chili. It’s well documented.

“Who’s to say” isn’t evidence. It’s wild speculation. It’s the equivalent of “we don’t know the reason so the reason is X” which is the Argument from Ignorance fallacy.

Ground coriander tastes nothing like fresh. One is not a substitute for the other. Fresh coriander on chilli is pretty rare too and seldom found outside of formerly Spanish held territory.

This is like chili. I said so in my original post. But saying that all you need is paprika and some coriander to season chili is like calling Taco Bell authentic Mexican food.