Egypt recipes
Recipes from Egypt: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Basbousa: Egyptian Semolina Cake Soaked in Syrup
Basbousa, the Egyptian syrup-soaked semolina cake, made at home: how to choose coarse semolina, mix yogurt and ghee, judge the browning, pour hot syrup in slowly, use orange blossom water, store it, fix what goes wrong, and serve it the way it is eaten in Egypt.
Koshari Recipe: Egypt's National Dish at Home
Koshari, Egypt's national dish, made at home: lentils, rice, macaroni, and chickpeas layered under a spicy tomato sauce, a garlic-vinegar daqqa, and crisp fried onions. The Cairo street-food classic, explained step by step.
Ful Medames: Egypt's Breakfast Fava Bean Stew
Ful medames is the fava bean dish Egyptians eat for breakfast. Canned versus dried beans, balancing cumin, lemon, tahini and olive oil, substitutes, taking the canned taste out, mashing so it isn't dry, storing it, and menus with bread and eggs, for home cooks.