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Zimbabwean Tomato Soup and Scrambled eggs

In Zimbabwe we have soup for breakfast. By soup I actually mean a sauce. The liquid part of a stew is also known as a soup. A conversation will actually be like, “I need soup on top of my rice.” An actual soup, like Butternut Squash Soup are not that popular.

The Zimbabwean soup is a tomato sauce. At the very least you need oil, onion(yellow or scallions), tomatoes and salt. It is used in all the meals for dipping bread, on top of rice or with sadza. The ingredients are similar to marinara sauce but cooked for a short time. I do sometimes make a large batch of the sauce and freeze it in batches. I do not really care for sauces but my husband(like my father) needs a sauce all the time. Am I the only one who feels like they married to someone like your father? Freezing it means I do not have to make it often.

I probably eat way too many eggs, but honestly, there are fewer things that cook quite as fast as eggs. It was the first thing I learned how to cook and my favourite type are scrambled. Poached and boiled eggs come a tied second.

Zimbabwean Tomato Soup and Scrambled eggs

Ingredients

Tomato Sauce:

  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 1 small onion chopped
  • 1/2 bell pepper chopped
  • 1 clove garlic crushed
  • 1 cup chopped tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup chicken/vegetable stock
  • salt and pepper

Scrambled Eggs

  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • salt and pepper
  • chopped parsely for garnish

Instructions

Tomato Sauce

  1. In a saucepan on medium high heat add oil. Add the onions and bell pepper and fry for 2 minutes. Add the garlic and stir for a minute. Add the tomatoes and stock, stir and simmer on medium. Season with salt and pepper. You can add a teaspoon of sugar to reduce the acidity of the sauce.
  2. Simmer for 10 minutes and serve.

Scrambled Eggs

  1. Melt butter in a pan on medium heat. Beat the eggs and milk together. Season with salt and pepper.
  2. Add the eggs to the pan and keep moving it around with a wooden spoon until the eggs are cooked but not dry.

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