How to Quick Yummy Egyptian Fooul (Fava beans)

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How to Quick Yummy Egyptian Fooul (Fava beans) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Egyptian Fooul (Fava beans). You can find them near other canned beans or the international section at your local grocery store. Otherwise, find canned fava beans via Amazon (affiliate): California Garden Fava Beans and Cortas Fava Beans. You can also make foul mudammas from scratch, starting with dry fava beans, that's how my parents used to make it.

This is a very common food here in Egypt.

Due to its cost, which is extremely low, it is a popular dish for many.

With this recipe you can enjoy a traditional Egyptian breakfast in the comfort of your home!

You can cook Egyptian Fooul (Fava beans) using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Egyptian Fooul (Fava beans)

  1. Prepare of Fava Bean can.

  2. It’s of olive oil, extra virgin.

  3. It’s of water.

  4. It’s of black pepper.

  5. Prepare of paprika powder.

  6. Prepare of ground cumin.

  7. Prepare of garlic powder.

  8. It’s of onion powder.

  9. Prepare of oregano.

There is a LONG way to make this too, using dried fava beans and soaking and then cooking, this recipe makes it A LOT easier and in my opinion is even better!

Evidence of them has been found among the relics of the earliest human civilizations and inside Egyptian tombs.

Home » recipe » Ful Medames (Egyptian Stewed fava beans).

The staple of the Egyptian breakfast,"fool" is how it's pronounced and it means Fava Beans.

Egyptian Fooul (Fava beans) step by step

  1. Boil Fava beans in half cup water.

  2. Keep water if you want more soup like. Otherwise, drain as you like after it boils..

  3. After boil, keep on stove on low heat..

  4. Add in olive oil, and remainder of ingredients..

  5. Stir everything and mash Fava beans..

These days, making it from scratch, the dried fava beans, is not necessary.

Instead, you can buy it in cans from any market or specialized Middle Eastern grocery store.

Stewed Fava Beans (Ful Medames) Best known as Egypt's national dish, ful medames is a hearty stew of warmed fava beans stirred with olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic, usually eaten for breakfast.

Hummus is fine, but the real power legume of the Middle East is the fava bean.

Ful medames is the Egyptian breakfast dish of favas stewed with tahini and seasoned with garlic, cumin, and lemon.