Ful medames is a popular dish in Egypt made from boiled broad beans and flavored with garlic, lemon, and cumin. It is commonly served for breakfast with eggs and pita bread and can be customized with various toppings and seasonings. The dish has ancient origins and remains a staple in Egypt.
Ful medames is a broad bean dish flavored with garlic, lemon and cumin. This dish is made by boiling broad beans in unsalted water until tender, then dunking them into the boiling liquid. After the beans are mashed, they are served in bowls to be topped by diners supplied with a variety of toppings, additives and condiments. Also called Egyptian fava beans, these beans are popular breakfast foods in Egypt. This dish is also popular in other parts of Africa and the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia.
For breakfast, this food is commonly served alongside a cooked egg and a piece of bread, often pita bread. Eggs served with fulmame are often served poached, fried, or hard-boiled. While most commonly eaten for breakfast, ful medames are also eaten at any time of day and can be purchased from street vendors in some popular public areas of Egypt. Outside of Egypt, most people either make them from scratch at home or buy them canned from a supermarket with ethnic produce.
In most places, including restaurants and at home, ful medames are prepared with their basic ingredients and served with a number of seasonings and additions that diners can use to adjust the flavor of the dish. Common additions that vary the flavor of ful medames include tahini, garlic sauce, and tomato sauce. Diners can also mix in cumin, parsley or onion. Some people eat lightning bolts with eggs and cured meats, while others eat the dish with just a small amount of oil and salt or butter on top.
Ful medames is an ancient and historic dish thought to have been consumed by the pharaohs in Egypt. Ancient evidence of beans flavored in this way has been found indicating that this dish could have originated as far back as 1900 years before the Common Era (BC), although the cooking techniques used to make the dish differed. Ful medames are eaten by rich and poor alike, and the dish remains the most popular way to eat broad beans, a staple in Egypt.
Broad beans, also called fava beans, are fairly large broad beans that grow in large pods. This type of bean originally came from Egypt and other areas of northern Africa as well as southern Asia. They can be eaten in many ways including dried as a snack, steamed, or cooked into a mush such as in medames ful.
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