From the pantry, you'll need: extra virgin olive oil, onion, garlic, canned chopped tomatoes, tomato paste, mild red pepper flakes, ground cumin, sweet paprika.
Serves 2-3; recipe makes enough sauce for 4-6 (use a larger frying pan, and add 1 egg per person), and you can freeze the extra sauce.
Ingredients
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 small onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 large red bell pepper, diced
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp sweet paprika
1/2 tsp mild red pepper flakes, or more to taste
4-oz can roasted green chiles, or 1 small jalapeño pepper, seeds and ribs removed, minced
2 Tbsp tomato paste
28 oz canned chopped tomatoes, with their juices
1/2 tsp kosher salt
Fresh black pepper, to taste
3 large eggs
2-4 Tbsp roughly chopped fresh parsley
Directions
Heat the oil in a large nonstick frying pan over low-medium heat. When the oil is hot, add the onion, and sauté for 2-3 minutes, until soft. Add the garlic and red bell pepper, and continue to cook, stirring frequently, for 4-5 minutes, until the onion is translucent.
Stir in the cumin, paprika, and red pepper flakes. Mix well, and let the spices cook for 30 seconds. Then, pour in the green chiles (or jalapeño), and cook that for 30 seconds. Next, add the tomato paste, and stir that into the mixture.
Finally, add the chopped tomatoes. Reduce heat to simmer, and cook, stirring often, for 15 minutes, or until the sauce comes together and reduces. When most of the liquid has evaporated, remove the pan from the heat. At this point, you could let all of the sauce cool completely, and refrigerate or freeze it in airtight containers.
Transfer half of the sauce into a smaller nonstick frying pan (I used a 9-inch size in the photos here). If the sauce has cooled, warm it over lowest heat until it is just below the simmer.
While the sauce is warming, crack each egg into its own small bowl. If there are any pieces of shell, now is the time to remove them.
Make 3 small indentations in the sauce, and gently slide an egg into each one. Cover the pan, and cook until the eggs are as runny, or firm, as you like them (I cook mine for 10 minutes, covered, which makes a somewhat runny egg).
Garnish with chopped parsley, and serve right away.