Eggs in spiced tomato & capsicum with wholemeal toast
Eggs gently cooked in a cumin and paprika tomato sauce with capsicum, served with wholemeal toast. A 25-minute vegetarian dinner.
At a glance
Vegetarian · 10 minutes active preparation · 25 minutes total · meal
Method range: 1–4 servings.
Contains: egg, gluten, soy, wheat. Check individual packaging and cross-contact information; this is not an allergy-safety guarantee.
Estimated per serving
- Energy
- 1879 kJ
- Protein
- 24.7 g
- Carbs
- 45.3 g
- Fat
- 16.2 g
- Iron
- 6.3 mg
- Calcium
- 225.3 mg
- Folate
- 423.4 µg
- Vitamin C
- 193.6 mg
* Partial ingredient data. Additional cooking losses may not be included. Open recipe for all vitamins, minerals and calculation notes.
Ingredients
Nutrition weights for 2 servings. Changing the batch size keeps the per-serving nutrition the same.
- Egg200 g
- tomatoes, canned, diced400 g
- red capsicum150 g
- onion100 g
- ground cumin2 g
- Paprika, dry powder2 g
- olive oil10 g
- Helga's Traditional Wholemeal bread, toasted (weighed after toasting)140 g
Method
- Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Cook the sliced onion and capsicum for 6 minutes.
- Stir in the ground cumin and paprika for 30 seconds, then add the tomatoes and simmer for 8 minutes.
- Make 4 hollows in the sauce and crack in the eggs. Cover with a lid and cook for 6–8 minutes, until the whites are set.
- Meanwhile, toast the Helga's Traditional Wholemeal bread, weigh 140 g of finished toast and serve alongside.
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Nutrition
Macros and selected micronutrients. Open All nutrients for the full nutrient and food-component profile. Availability varies by ingredient. Select a nutrient to see which ingredients supply it.
| Nutrient | Amount | Reference comparison |
|---|---|---|
| 1879 kJCooking estimate incomplete | — | |
| 24.7 gCooking estimate incomplete | — | |
| 16.2 gCooking estimate incomplete | — | |
| 10.1 gCooking estimate incomplete | 40%AI · reported contribution only | |
| 45.3 gCooking estimate incomplete | — | |
| 225 mgCooking estimate incomplete | 23%RDI · reported contribution only | |
| 104 µgCooking estimate incomplete | 70%RDI · reported contribution only | |
| 6.3 mgCooking estimate incomplete | 35%RDI · reported contribution only | |
| 1.19 µgCooking estimate incomplete | 50%RDI · reported contribution only | |
| 423 µgCooking estimate incomplete | 106%RDI · reported contribution only | |
| 193.6 mgCooking estimate incomplete | 430%RDI · reported contribution only |
Estimates from the identified food records, including dated product labels where specified. “Not reported” is unknown; partial totals may be incomplete. Whole-batch amounts are not compared against one person’s daily reference. Per-serving percentages compare one serving with daily RDI/AI targets for Women 31–50 years, not upper limits. Values use foods in their recorded states; additional cooking losses are not modelled unless you select a supported method when editing ingredients.
About this recipe
Editorially reviewed; not kitchen tested. Original owner-specified recipe, editorially reviewed; not kitchen-tested. Quantities are edible grams for two servings. Further heating without a matching published retention model remains uncertain.
MorselMetrics October 2026 original recipes · Original MorselMetrics recipe text; nutrient data retain their source terms
Independently composed for MorselMetrics, October 2026. Editorially reviewed; not kitchen-tested. AFCD and selected validated AUSNUT nutrient records retain FSANZ attribution and source terms.
Calculation assumptions & recipe adaptations
Original October 2026 recipe copy supplied by the owner. Uses plain paprika to match the AFCD spice record; no assumed smoked-product composition. Bread is specified as Helga’s Traditional Wholemeal 750 g loaf for dated ingredient exclusions: soy, wheat and gluten present; sesame cross-contact remains unknown. Source composition uses AFCD toasted wholemeal at 140 g weighed after toasting, not raw bread with unmodelled toasting. Label review expires 2027-01-04; generic AFCD nutrition can differ from this product.
Original owner-specified recipe, editorially reviewed; not kitchen-tested. Quantities are edible grams for two servings. Further heating without a matching published retention model remains uncertain. Missing nutrients are not treated as zero. All measured added oil is counted. Generic and historical formulation data can differ from the product used. Uses plain paprika to match the AFCD spice record; no assumed smoked-product composition. Bread is specified as Helga’s Traditional Wholemeal 750 g loaf for dated ingredient exclusions: soy, wheat and gluten present; sesame cross-contact remains unknown. Source composition uses AFCD toasted wholemeal at 140 g weighed after toasting, not raw bread with unmodelled toasting. Label review expires 2027-01-04; generic AFCD nutrition can differ from this product.
- Egg: Weighed edible quantity for the whole two-serving recipe.
- tomatoes, canned, diced: Weighed edible quantity for the whole two-serving recipe.
- red capsicum: Weighed edible quantity for the whole two-serving recipe.
- onion: Weighed edible quantity for the whole two-serving recipe.
- ground cumin: Weighed edible quantity for the whole two-serving recipe.
- Paprika, dry powder: Weighed edible quantity for the whole two-serving recipe. Uses plain paprika to match the AFCD spice record; no assumed smoked-product composition.
- olive oil: Weighed edible quantity for the whole two-serving recipe.
- Helga's Traditional Wholemeal bread, toasted (weighed after toasting): Use the specified loaf for this ingredient-exclusion review. Weigh 140 g total after toasting; this is a recipe quantity, not an assumed raw-to-toast conversion. Nutrition uses generic AFCD toasted wholemeal bread.
AFCD attribution, data & methods
Food matches used for nutrition
- Egg: Egg, chicken, whole, raw
- tomatoes, canned, diced: Tomato, whole, canned in tomato juice, undrained
- red capsicum: Capsicum, red, fresh, raw
- onion: Onion, mature, brown skinned, peeled, raw
- ground cumin: Cumin (cummin) seed, dried, ground
- Paprika, dry powder: Paprika, dry powder
- olive oil: Oil, olive
- Helga's Traditional Wholemeal bread, toasted (weighed after toasting): Bread, from wholemeal flour, toasted