authentic Egyptian recipes
Lamb with Black-Eyed Beans. Lamb with black-eyed beans is a wonderfully hearty meal. It’s one of my favourite ways to have lamb. The meat is slow cooked so it’s perfectly tender. The rich tomato sauce is packed with flavour from the herbs and spices and …
Smoked Chicken with Paprika Stuffing Smoked Chicken with Paprika Stuffing is a phenomenal recipe for chicken. (It’s also excellent for duck.) Smoking is so easy. If you’re worried that smoking would be really difficult, or needs to be done outside, or needs fancy, expensive equipment, …
Pita bread – Aish abyad pita bread In Egypt, the bread is best likened to pita bread. The main difference is that it’s round. Bread is an incredibly important staple in Egypt. If you’d like to find out more see my article ‘Bread in Egypt’. …
Chicken in breadcrumbs – Chicken bennay This Chicken in Breadcrumbs recipe leaves KFC standing in the shadows. If you want to make chicken that gets everyone excited and wanting to have it again and again, then this is a great recipe for you. The chicken …
Chicken Egyptian Style – Poached (and then cooked in butter) chicken Chicken Egyptian Style ensures the meat is always moist and flavoursome, and the skin is beautifully buttery and crisp. It can therefore be likened to the French classics Duck Confit and Chicken Confit. The …
Cheese Bread: Learn to make delicious Cheese Bread – incredibly easy to make, they look incredible, and most importantly they taste delicious.
Okra with Beef Okra with beef is a popular dish in Egypt; a wonderful combination of tender beef and baby okra. In Egypt, Okra is known as bamya and it’s a very popular vegetable. In England it’s also sometimes known as ‘Ladies’ Fingers’. Stewing beef …
Beef with red peppers and Cannelini:
Slow cooked to produce beautifully tender beef in a deliciously rich sauce. Spiced to perfection – always a winner!
Stuffed Chicken with Lemon, Garlic and Herb Freekah The flavours of this stuffed chicken are unbelievably exciting. The freekah stuffing comes to life with the lemon, garlic and herbs, giving it a real freshness. It then absorbs incredible flavours from the chicken making it an …
