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Egyptian cuisine makes heavy use of poultry, legumes, vegetables and fruit from Egypt's rich Nile Valley and Delta. Examples of Egyptian dishes include rice-stuffed vegetables and grape leaves, hummus, falafel, shawarma, kebab and kofta. Others include ful medames, mashed fava beans; koshary, lentils and pasta; and molokhiyya, bush okra stew.
Koshary, kushari or koshari (Egyptian Arabic: كشرى [ˈkoʃæɾi]) is Egypt's national dish and a widely popular street food. [1] It is a traditional Egyptian staple, mixing pasta, Egyptian fried rice, vermicelli and brown lentils, [2] [3] and topped with chickpeas, a garlicky tomato sauce, garlic vinegar, and crispy fried onions.
The dishes frequently consisted of stews served with great amounts of bread, fresh vegetables and fruit. For sweets there were cakes baked with dates and sweetened with honey. The goddess Hathor was often invoked during feasts. [1] Food could be prepared by stewing, baking, boiling, grilling, frying, or roasting.
Mulukhiyah was a known dish in the Medieval Arab world. The recipe on how to prepare it is mentioned in the 14th-century Arabic book Kanz el-Fawa'ed fi Tanwi' el-Mawa'ed. According to the Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi (d. 1442), [10] mulukhiyah was the favorite dish of caliph Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan (r. 661–680) the founder of the Umayyad ...
Fesikh from Desouk.. Fesikh (Egyptian Arabic: فسيخ, romanized: fesīḵ, pronounced) is a traditional celebratory ancient Egyptian dish.It is eaten by Egyptians during the Sham el-Nessim festival in Egypt, which is a spring celebration from ancient Egyptian times and is a national festival in Egypt.
A Tunisian dish based on chick peas in a thin garlic and cumin-flavoured soup, served over small pieces of stale crusty bread. Makroudh: Tunisia and Morocco and Algeria: A pastry often filled with dates or almonds. Matbucha: Morocco: The name of the dish originates from Arabic and means "cooked [salad]". It is served as an appetizer, often as ...
Bissara, bessara, besarah, bayssara , bayssar and tamarakt (Arabic: بصارة) [5] [3] is a dish in Egyptian cuisine and Moroccan cuisine. [1] [6] [7] The dish contains split fava beans, onions, garlic, fresh aromatic herbs and spices. All ingredients are slowly cooked and then blended together to yield a creamy and fragrant dip or side dish.
Om Ali, Omali, Umm Ali, or Oumm Ali (Egyptian Arabic: أم على), meaning "Mother of Ali", is a traditional Egyptian dessert, and is a national dessert of Egypt. [1] There are numerous variations with different composition. [2] [3] The dish, which is traced back to as far as Medieval Egypt, is named after the wife of the Sultan of Egypt.