Notes:
This is a combination of rice and meat.
Servings: 3
Preparation Time: 2 hours
Ingredients
2 cups rice.
1/2 kg meat cubes
1 tablespoon margarine or ghee.
1 onion.
2 cardamoms.
2 bay leaves.
2 cups milk.
Salt and pepper.
Cooking Instructions
Notes:
For a variation, beef liver or chopped beef kidneys can be used with or in lieu of liver. Cook the same way.
Servings: 3
Preparation Time: 0.75 hours
Ingredients
2 cups rice
1/2 kg chicken livers.
1 onion.
Salt and pepper.
Margarine or butter.
Vegetable Oil
Nuts and raisins.
Cooking Instructions
Notes:
A different color and taste for this rice dish.
Servings: 4
Preparation Time: 0.75 hours
Ingredients
2 cups rice
1 onion
1 red pepper.
Vegetable oil.
1 teaspoon cumin.
Tomato paste.
Salt.
Cooking Instructions
Notes:
Cooking rice with milk in earthenware pot (tagen) gives it a unique flavor.
Servings: 4
Preparation Time: 1.5 hours
Ingredients
2 cups rice
4 cups milk.
1 tablespoon margarine or ghee.
2 pieces cardamom.
Mastic resin.
Salt.
Cooking Instructions
Notes:
Rice is served in many ways in Egypt. This one is brownish and tasty.
Servings: 5
Preparation Time: 1 hours
Ingredients
3 cups rice.
1 1/2 tablespoons margarine or butter
4 cups water.
Salt.
Cooking Instructions
Koshari is originally a vegetarian dish from India.
In Egypt, it has two variants, one in Cairo and one in Alexandria.
The Cairo recipe uses pasta, whole lentils and hot sauce.
The Alexandria recipe is restricted to yellow/red lentils and rice only.
Servings: 5
Preparation Time: 1 hours
Ingredients
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: 1 hours
Ingredients
2 cups Egyptian rice (similar to Italian starchy short grain varieties).
1/2 kg chicken livers.
3/4 cup almonds.
1/4 cup hazelnut.
1/2 cup raisins.
1/2 cup pine nuts.
2 teaspoons cinnamon.
2 tablespoons margarine.
2 pieces cardamom.
2 pieces mastic resin (from Greek food stores)
Salt.
sugar.
This is a popular dessert in Egypt.
Variation can include adding raisins, shredded coconuts, various nuts, or even a scoop of ice cream on top.
Servings:
Preparation Time: 0.75 hours
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons rice
2 cups milk
6 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cinnamon & nuts
Cooking Instructions:
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:
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
