Recipe Wishlist - Shakshuka from Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi

Over a year after I initially wrote my recipe wishlist, I have FINALLY actually cooked one. As you can see from the post title I chose the authors' version of the baked eggs and tomato dish that is such a staple across  Eastern Mediterranean and North African cuisines. I followed this recipe to the letter as I have zero natural talent for cooking, I'm having to do this from scratch! Having just said I followed this recipe to the letter, I actually didn't as the recipe called for 4 whole eggs and then 4 egg yolks as I didn't have 8 eggs, I just used the three whole eggs you can see in the terrible photo. Now, I don't know whether the lack of eggs is what threw the balance off, but this basically just tasted of tomatoes, there was a slight hint of the harissa but barely any garlic. I was also surprised that the only spices were the harissa and the cumin, I felt it could have done with perhaps more behind the acid of the tomatoes. I still enjoyed it though, all mopped up with French bread. I will definitely, definitely cook this again, though I am going to hunt down some other varieties (perhaps a recipe which starts with onion as felt very odd not having any onion) including additional spices and would love to add some merguez into the mix as well. And no, I didn't make my own labneh... Greek yoghurt had to step in and do the honours

Fingers crossed the next one won't take so long!