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:
This pie makes a nice snack or a light meal. It can also be served to guest who come in for evening tea.
Servings: 4
Preparation Time: 2.5 hours
Ingredients
1 pack Spinach.
1 pack yeast.
1/2 cup milk.
Vegetable oil.
1/3 cup olive oil.
3 cups flour.
4 tablespoons lemon juice.
Salt.
5 onions, finely chopped.
Parsley.
Cooking Instructions
Preparing dough
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
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:
A variant of the Mesakaa recipe.
Servings: 5
Preparation Time: 1.5 hours
Ingredients
1 kg eggplant , sliced
2 onions.
2 green peppers.
1/3 kg minced meat.
2 tomatoes.
2 garlic cloves, crushed.
4 tablespoons vegetable oil.
2 tablespoons butter.
3 tablespoons flour.
4 cups milk.
2 tablespoons tomato paste.
Salt and pepper.
Cooking Instructions
Preparing bechamel
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
Kahk is a dessert that is traditionally made at certain times of the year in Egypt.
It is one of the vanishing ways of cooking in Egypt.
Servings:
Preparation Time: 3 hours
Ingredients
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
Notes:
Depending on the kind you use, you may need to put more or less quantity of water on the rice.
Servings: 6
Preparation Time: 0.75 hours
Ingredients
3 Cups egyptian rice.
1 cup vermicelli
1 1/2 oil or butter
3 1/2 cups Water
3/4 tablespoon salt.
Cooking Instructions
