Notes:

Pasta is popular as the carbohydrate component of meals.

Servings: 4

Preparation Time: 1.5 hours

Ingredients

1 pack any kind of pasta.
3 tablespoons flour.
3 tablespoons butter.
4 cups milk.
Vegetable oil.
1 onion.
Tomato paste.
Minced meat.
Salt and pepper.
1 egg.

Cooking Instructions

Preparing Pasta

Boil pasta and drain. set aside.

Preparing bechamel

Notes

Couscous is originally from the Western part of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya).

It has made its way in Egypt, but mostly eaten as a dessert only with sugar.

Servings: 7

Preparation Time: 0.5 hours

Ingredients

2 cups couscous.
2 1/2 cups water .
Powder sugar.
4 tablespoons butter.
Nuts & raisins.
Cinnamon.

Cooking Instructions

Notes:

Molokheya is a popular national dish in Egypt, second only to Ful Medames.

This is just one variant.

See more on its history at Molokheya: A national dish of Egypt.

Servings: 4

Preparation Time: 1 hours

Ingredients

1 rabbit.
1 pack molokheya.
1 1/2 tablespoon garlic , crushed.
1 1/2 tablespoon coriander , ground.
3 tablespoons margarine or butter.
Salt.

Cooking Instructions

Notes
This is a popular dish in the eastern Mediterranean, from Egypt, to Turkey and Greece.

Servings: 5

Preparation Time: 1.5 hours

Ingredients

1 kg eggplant , sliced.
2 green peppers.
2 onions.
4 tomatoes.
2 garlic cloves, crushed.
1/3 kg minced meat.
4 tablespoons vegetable oil.
3 tablespoons tomato paste.
Salt and pepper.

Cooking Instructions

Preparing meat

Notes:

This sweet desert is popular in Egypt.

Servings: 5

Preparation Time: 0.75 hours

Ingredients:

1 large pack of cake yeast.
1/2 kg. cake flour.
Water
1 tablespoon sugar.
Pinch of salt
Oil for deep frying.
Sugar syrup.

Cooking Instructions