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An assortment of traditional Egyptian desserts Legumes, widely used in Egyptian cuisine, on display in Alexandria. 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 ...
Several varieties of kebab are popular in Egyptian cuisine, although the word kebab in local use is reserved for skewers of grilled marinated meat chunks. Skewers of grilled seasoned ground meat are called kofta. Shish taouk, which are skewers of grilled marinated chicken chunks, are another popular variety of kebab in Egypt. All kebabs are ...
Kofta is a family of meatball or meatloaf dishes found in South Asian, Central Asian, Balkan, Middle Eastern, North African, and South Caucasian cuisines. In the simplest form, koftas consist of balls of minced meat —usually beef, chicken, pork, lamb or mutton, or a mixture—mixed with spices and sometimes other ingredients. [ 1 ]
Shawarma (/ ʃ ə ˈ w ɑːr m ə /; Arabic: شاورما) is a Middle Eastern dish that originated in the Levantine region during the Ottoman Empire, [1] [3] [4] [5] consisting of meat that is cut into thin slices, stacked in an inverted cone, and roasted on a slow-turning vertical spit.
Nargesi Kebab, Nargesi Kofta or Narges Shami Kebab is an Afghan, Middle Eastern, Pakistani and Indian dish. It can be described as a kind of kebab or kofta with a chicken egg in the middle. It is named after the Narcissus flower because kebabs look like the flower's petals when they are cut.
Kibbeh (/ ˈ k ɪ b i /, also kubba and other spellings; Arabic: كبة, romanized: kibba) is a popular dish in the Levant based on spiced lean ground meat and bulgur wheat. ...
Kofta b'bandura (كفتة بالبندورة) Spiced, ground meat baked in tomato sauce and served with rice. Kofta b'tahini (كفتة الطحينة) Spiced, ground meat baked in a sea of tahini, topped with thinly sliced potatoes and pine nuts and served with rice. Kousa mahshi (كوسا محشي) Rice and minced meat stuffed in zucchinis.
Mujaddara is the Arabic word for "pockmarked"; the lentils among the rice resemble pockmarks. [2] [3] The first recorded recipe for mujaddara appears in Kitab al-Tabikh, a cookbook compiled in 1226 by al-Baghdadi in Iraq. [3]