Herby Turkish eggs with wild greens

Name: Herby Turkish eggs on wild greens
Yield: Serves up to 6
Ingredients: 1 large bunch of spring onion (wash well, remove the outer layers and include the full length of the onion) chopped into 1cm thick rounds; 1 green pepper finely chopped; 60ml olive oil; 6 eggs; Tsp sumac; Apricot jam; Mulberry jam; 6 tbsp tahini mixed with 2 tbsp of grape molasses

In an extract from Mediterranea: Life-perfected Recipes from Grandmothers of the Mediterranean, Anastasia Miari shares a time-honoured recipe for flavour-filled eggs from Turkey

By Anastasia Miari

28 November 2025

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This dish – called Otlu Yumurta in Turkey – is spectacular in its simplicity and I love that I can use up any wild greens or left over herbs and spring onion lurking in my fridge for it. Esma throws her eggs together using a bunch of spring onion but I’ve tested this with leek and beetroot tops too and the result is resoundingly tasty using both variations.

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