This is a can of beans.
It's called ful medames - a type of broad bean. Everyone eats ful. It's very filling. It's most usually served with homous and bread. And it's cheap. In Egypt they call it 'rich man's breakfast, poor man's dinner'.
You can find ful in UK cities easily - most ethnic shops stock it. Simply fry the beans in oil, season, cover with water, simmer for 15 minutes and eat. But I prefer something a bit more elaborate - fry the beans with onion, garlic, cumin and chilli, add a can of tomatoes, simmer for 15 minutes and mash it all up together. Top with a big blob of homous.
The hot summer has made it a bad year for growing beans in most of the Levant. But in the hill villages of southern Lebanon, the harvest is doing well. You get a lot of beans for your seed and three seeds can provides nine kilos of beans. See this from Lebanon's Daily Star http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Lifestyle/2012/Oct-12/191096-climbing-broad-beans-flourish-in-south-lebanon.ashx#axzz297BVXkj4
It's called ful medames - a type of broad bean. Everyone eats ful. It's very filling. It's most usually served with homous and bread. And it's cheap. In Egypt they call it 'rich man's breakfast, poor man's dinner'.
You can find ful in UK cities easily - most ethnic shops stock it. Simply fry the beans in oil, season, cover with water, simmer for 15 minutes and eat. But I prefer something a bit more elaborate - fry the beans with onion, garlic, cumin and chilli, add a can of tomatoes, simmer for 15 minutes and mash it all up together. Top with a big blob of homous.
The hot summer has made it a bad year for growing beans in most of the Levant. But in the hill villages of southern Lebanon, the harvest is doing well. You get a lot of beans for your seed and three seeds can provides nine kilos of beans. See this from Lebanon's Daily Star http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Lifestyle/2012/Oct-12/191096-climbing-broad-beans-flourish-in-south-lebanon.ashx#axzz297BVXkj4
These are called 'Foul Medamas' here in Chennai; you know me and beans and pulses - can you imagine we ever that we ever eat these for breakfast or dinner here?!
ReplyDeleteFoul Medamas - love it!
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