All Easy Recipes. Cook all that you can cook. Egyptian Beans
(Ful Medames)
 
The Arabs are very fond of this dish; they sit in a circle in the street round a pot of foul on a fire. They dip pieces of bread into the beans, or they make sandwiches of it with the native bread.

What You Need:            (To Serve: 4 - 6)
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  • 1½ pound dried broad beans
  • 4 hard-boiled eggs
  • ½ cup cooking oil
  • Juice of 2 lemons
  • Salt and pepper

  • How To Cook:
    1. Soak the beans for 24 hours.

    2. The following day, boil them in a covered pan with just enough water to cover.

    3. Add more hot water as necessary until the beans are tender, then let the water reduce until there is very little left.

    4. Serve the beans in the remaining liquor, accompanied by separate dishes of roughly chopped hard-boiled eggs, oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper-mix a little of these flavorings with the beans in your plate.


     
     
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