If you want to cook something authentic and ethnic, koshari is your best bet. It’s layers of pasta, rice, lentils and chickpeas smothered with a spicy, tangy tomato sauce and topped with caramelized onions. It’s vegan, it’s cheap to make, it’s super easy to make and it’s effing to die for. And — bonus points [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Egyptian Food’
December 13, 2009
Macarona Bechamel — An Egyptian Dinner Staple
You wouldn’t think that bechamel would be a culinary essential in Egyptian cuisine, but it is. Egyptians use bechamel sauce to bind vegetable casseroles and pasta dishes and use it as an accompaniment to meat. My cousin-in-law Sharif taught me how to make macarona bechamel recently — which, I guess would be the equivalent of [...]
October 18, 2009
If You Like Rice and Bread, Why Not Put It Together? Fetta Hamra, Egyptian Rice Casserole. P.S. Wear Your Magic Cooking Hijab
Fetta is my favorite Egyptian food. Like most Egyptian dishes, it’s economical and makes use of a lot of extra leftover ingredients laying around the house. You basically layer bread, rice and meat in a casserole dish and smother the whole thing with a tangy, garlicky tomato sauce. It takes a bit of time to [...]
July 19, 2009
Egyptian Street Food Extravaaagannzaaa! My Favorite? TORSHI!
Here’s a little photo essay with captions of all my favorite street food in Egypt. I made a mental checklist of all the things I wanted to eat in Egypt and made sure that I got to all of them…for the blog, ya know?
July 19, 2009
An Egyptian Breakfast from a Garden in Cairo
Beans, salty white cheese and eggs with salted cured beef. I just came back from a two-week trip to Egypt and took pictures of practically every meal I ate. Here are some pictures from a breakfast we ate in the garden in my dad’s villa outside Cairo.
