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Shakshuka is a signature dish of Israel; we have verified places to eat it in Tel Aviv. Eggs poached in a simmering pan of tomatoes, peppers, garlic and cumin, served straight from the skillet with bread for dipping, the breakfast dish Tel Aviv's cafes now run all day. Start with where to eat Shakshuka in Tel Aviv.
Eggs poached in a simmering pan of tomatoes, peppers, garlic and cumin, served straight from the skillet with bread for dipping, the breakfast dish Tel Aviv's cafes now run all day.
The name comes from an Arabic root meaning to mix or shake, and food historians disagree on its path: Gil Marks traces it to the Turkish sakshuka spreading through Ottoman rule into the Maghreb, while others group it with menemen and piperade as a wider Mediterranean vegetable-and-egg family. Absent from Palestinian and Levantine kitchens until the 1950s, shakshuka arrived in Israel with Maghrebi Jewish immigrants that decade and only reached restaurant menus in the 1990s. Dr. Shakshuka in Jaffa has plated its Tripolitan version since the early 1990s, while Meshek Barzilay's vegan take shows how far the dish has spread across the city's kitchens since.
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