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Foul medames
Also known as فول مدمس · ful medames · foul mudammas · fava beans breakfast
Fava beans mashed rough with cumin, lemon and oil, an egg or pickles on the side, bread standing in for cutlery. Earthy and dense.
Typical serving
420 kcal
usually 330–530 kcal
 Protein | 20 g |
|---|---|
 Carbs | 54 g |
 Fat | 14 g |
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Before you start
- soak the beans 12 hours ahead, or use two drained tins
- old beans can take two hours to soften and there is no hurrying them
Ingredients
Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard
- 100gdried broad beans — the small brown foul beans; or two drained tins, and skip the soak and the boil
- 2pita breads
- 1½ tbspolive oil
- 1tomato
- 1 handfulflat parsley
- 2garlic cloves
- 1lemon
- 1 tspcumin
- to tastesalt
Method
6 steps
soak · 12 hours walk awayBeans under plenty of cold water overnight. They roughly double, so give them far more room than looks necessary.
boil · 1h 30m walk awayDrained, covered with fresh water and left at a bare simmer until they crush easily against the side of the pan.
chop · 5mTomato diced small, parsley chopped, garlic crushed to a paste with a pinch of salt.
fold · 4mAbout half the beans crushed roughly in the pan with a ladle of their cooking water, the rest left whole. Mashed smooth throughout it stops being foul.
grill · 3mPita warmed on a dry pan until it puffs.
finish · 4mGarlic, cumin, lemon and olive oil stirred through off the heat, tomato and parsley heaped on top, bread to scoop with rather than a spoon.
Worth knowing
Egypt’s national breakfast, ladled from great copper pots that simmer overnight — the dish predates the pyramids’ completion.
Fava beans are among the most fibre-rich legumes, and the lemon’s vitamin C helps the iron in them absorb.
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