FUL MEDAMES
Ful Medames is a popular Middle Eastern breakfast recipe that's made with cooked fava beans and cumin, then topped with a garlicky, lemon olive oil sauce!
Provided by Yumna Jawad
Categories Breakfast
Time 30m
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Pour the fava beans and the chickpeas together into a colander to drain. Rinse the beans in cold water.
- Transfer the rinsed, drained beans to a medium saucepan over medium heat, and add 1 and half cups of cold water. Season with cumin and kosher salt.
- Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to low and let simmer uncovered for 20 minutes until most of the water is absorbed, smashing occasionally with the back of a wooden spoon to get the desired consistency.
- Meanwhile, combine all the ingredients for the sauce in a small bowl.
- When the beans and chickpeas are done cooking, serve the sauce on top or next to the ful medames. You can have stir half the sauce with the bean mixture and serve the other half on the side.
- Serve with fresh parsley on top along with warm pita, tomatoes and radishes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 487 kcal, Carbohydrate 42 g, Protein 17 g, Fat 30 g, SaturatedFat 4 g, Sodium 1499 mg, Fiber 12 g, Sugar 1 g, ServingSize 1 serving
FOOL (OR FüL) MEDAMMES FAVA BEAN SALAD
This recipe looks so good. I haven't got to it yet but I am soon. I am posting it for world tour-2--middle eastern. If you cannot find fava beans, try edamames (frozen in most stores).
Provided by nannie jo
Time 1h
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Sort and wash beans; place in a large saucepan. Cover with water to 2 inches above beans; cover and let stand 8 hours. Drain beans.
- Return beans to pan. Cover with water to 2 inches above beans. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 45 minutes or until tender. Drain well.
- Place beans in a medium bowl. Stir in parsley and next 5 ingredients (parsley through garlic); toss gently. Sprinkle with egg.
- Yield: 8 servings (serving size: 1/2 cup).
Nutrition Facts : Calories 136, Fat 5.3, SaturatedFat 0.9, Cholesterol 26.5, Sodium 157.9, Carbohydrate 15.5, Fiber 6.4, Sugar 1.6, Protein 7.5
FUL MEDAMES
The traditional Egyptian breakfast of dried fava beans is also the national dish, eaten at all times of the day, in the fields, in village mud-houses, and in the cities. Restaurants serve it as a mezze, and it is sold in the streets. Vendors put the beans in large, round, narrow-necked vessels, which they bury through the night in the dying embers of the public baths. Ful medames is pre-Ottoman and pre-Islamic.
Provided by Claudia Roden
Categories Bread Salad Sauce Garlic Breakfast
Yield Makes 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- As the cooking time varies depending on the quality and age of the beans, it is good to cook them in advance and to reheat them when you are ready to serve. Cook the drained beans in a fresh portion of unsalted water in a large saucepan with the lid on until tender, adding water to keep them covered, and salt when the beans have softened. They take 2-2 1/2 hours of gentle simmering. When the beans are soft, let the liquid reduce. It is usual to take out a ladle or two of the beans and to mash them with some of the cooking liquid, then stir this back into the beans. This is to thicken the sauce.
- Serve the beans in soup bowls sprinkled with chopped parsley and accompanied by Arab bread.
- Pass round the dressing ingredients for everyone to help themselves: a bottle of extra-virgin olive oil, the quartered lemons, salt and pepper, a little saucer with the crushed garlic, one with chili-pepper flakes, and one with ground cumin.
- The beans are eaten gently crushed with the fork, so that they absorb the dressing.
- Optional Garnishes
- Peel hard-boiled eggs-1 per person-to cut up in the bowl with the beans.
- Top the beans with a chopped cucumber-and-tomato salad and thinly sliced mild onions or scallions. Otherwise, pass round a good bunch of scallions and quartered tomatoes and cucumbers cut into sticks.
- Serve with tahina cream sauce (page 65) or salad (page 67), with pickles and sliced onions soaked in vinegar for 30 minutes.
- Another way of serving ful medames is smothered in a garlicky tomato sauce (see page 464).
- In Syria and Lebanon, they eat ful medames with yogurt or feta cheese, olives, and small cucumbers.
- Variations
- A traditional way of thickening the sauce is to throw a handful of red lentils (1/4 cup) into the water at the start of the cooking.
- In Iraq, large brown beans are used instead of the small Egyptian ones, in a dish called badkila, which is also sold for breakfast in the street.
FAVA BEAN SALAD
Make and share this Fava Bean Salad recipe from Food.com.
Provided by evelynathens
Categories Beans
Time 15m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Combine fava beans, chopped cucumber, tomato, olives, red onion, romaine, and parsley in a bowl.
- For the dressing, combine olive oil, red wine vinegar, water, and the remainder of the spices in a lidded jar.
- Shake jar until dressing ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
- Pour dressing over salad and mix ingredients until well coated.
- Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.
- Serve salad on top of extra romaine or butter lettuce leaves for an attractive presentation.
- Makes 4 main dish or 6 side-dish servings.
- Variations on a Theme: If fava beans are not available or not in season, substitute 2 cups cooked cannellini (white kidney) or Great Northern white beans in the recipe.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 366.3, Fat 18.4, SaturatedFat 2.6, Sodium 275.9, Carbohydrate 40.8, Fiber 13.3, Sugar 7.3, Protein 13.8
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