Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Piperade
Basque pepper stew, eggs in at the end, ham if you have it. Soft, not a scramble. It should taste like peppers, not a Western omelette.
The sheet · 2 plates · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. Basque pepper stew, eggs in at the end, ham if you have it. Soft, not a scramble. It should taste like peppers, not a Western omelette.
What it needs
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- bell pepper
- tomato
- onion
- eggs
- olive oil
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: ham.
Method
- Peppers and onion in olive oil, low and slow, twenty minutes until they slump and sweeten. No shortcut here.
- Tomato in, cooked until the liquid has gone and it is jammy.
- Eggs stirred through off the direct heat until they just thicken into it — it should be soft, somewhere between a scramble and a sauce.
- Ham on top if you have it. Bread. A pinch of Espelette or any mild chili if the peppers came out sweet.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardTruly Foolproof Poached EggsJ. Kenji López-AltPoaching without the wispy strands. The trick is what happens before the egg reaches the water.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- bell pepper
- Sweetness and water. Raw it is crunch, blistered under a broiler it goes silky and smoky and stops tasting like a salad bar — that char is most of the reason to buy them.
- tomato
- Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
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