🇪🇬 Egypt cuisine · #2

Ful Medames

Ful Medames
Time20 min
Serves4
Ingredients8

Egypt's everyday breakfast for millennia: slow-cooked fava beans mashed and dressed with oil, lemon and cumin, eaten with flatbread.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Heat the beans with a little of their liquid until simmering.
  2. Mash half of them, leaving the rest whole.
  3. Stir in the garlic, cumin, salt and lemon juice.
  4. Spoon into a bowl, top with tomato and parsley and drizzle with oil.
  5. Serve hot with baladi bread, spring onions and pickles.