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Ful Medames - Traditional Fava Beans
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Ful Medames - Traditional Fava Beans

Traditional ful medames - a stew of fava beans cooked with garlic, lemon and cumin. An age-old Middle Eastern breakfast.

⏱ 15 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona
⚖ Pareve🥬 Vegetarian🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Heat part of the olive oil in a pan over medium heat and fry the garlic 1 minute.
    Stove
  2. 2
    Add the ful and the cumin, some of the paprika, the salt and the black pepper and cook for 5 minutes, stirring.
    Stove
  3. 3
    Mash the fava beans partly with a spoon.
  4. 4
    Add the lemon juice and toss.
  5. 5
    Transfer into a deep plate and top with the rest of the olive oil, tomato, red onion, parsley and rest of the paprika.
  6. 6
    Halve the eggs and place half an egg beside each serving.
    Knife
719calories
48 gprotein
102 gcarbs
16 gfat
● protein 26%● carbs 55%● fat 19%

Per serving (306 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (2)

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)

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Warm Ful

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