Tomato and spinach egg scramble with cottage cheese and za'atar
9 min · 31 g protein · 326 cals / serving
A shakshuka-style supper in ten minutes: cherry tomatoes blistered with garlic, a pile of spinach wilted in, then eggs folded through in soft curds with spoonfuls of cottage cheese that melt at the edges. Finished with dill, chilli and a dusting of za'atar.
Ingredients
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 1/4 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 clove garlic, sliced
- 3 1/2 oz baby spinach
- 5 large eggs, beaten with the salt
- 1 pinch salt
- scant 1 cup cottage cheese (1%)
To serve
- 2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped
- 1 tsp za'atar
- 1 pinch red pepper flakes
- 1 pinch black pepper
Steps
- Heat the oil in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the tomatoes cut side down with the garlic and cook 2 minutes until they soften and blister, then add the spinach and toss for 1 minute until wilted.
- Turn the heat to medium-low, pour in the eggs and gently push them around with a spatula, 2–3 minutes, until they form large, soft curds. Dot in the cottage cheese and fold once or twice; take the pan off the heat while the eggs still look slightly wet.
- Scatter with dill, za'atar, chilli flakes and black pepper and eat from the pan or two warm bowls.
Good to know
Why add the cottage cheese at the end?
Folded in late it stays in creamy pockets that just begin to melt. Stirred in early it weeps and makes the eggs watery.
No za'atar?
A pinch of dried oregano or thyme with a few sesame seeds and a squeeze of lemon gets close.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 92
- Protein
- (39%)
- 9 g
- Fat
- (49%)
- 5 g
- Carbohydrates
- (13%)
- 3 g
- of which sugar
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 247 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 652 kcal goes into the pot and 767 g of ingredients comes out as about 705 g of food: 92 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.