Khaleeji

Foul Medames

Name: Foul Medames
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Khaleeji
Ingredients: 2 cans canned fava beans (ful medames); 3 tbsp olive oil; 2 garlic cloves; 1 lemon; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tomato; 2 tbsp parsley; 1 green chili; 1/2 tsp salt

Fatima @fatima_machboos

Foul Medames is Khaleeji home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium Vegetarian Vegan Pescatarian Halal Dairy free Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cans canned fava beans (ful medames)
3 tbsp olive oil
2 garlic cloves
1 lemon
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tomato
2 tbsp parsley
1 green chili
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Heat the canned fava beans with their liquid in a small pot over medium heat for 5 minutes until warmed through, then mash roughly with a fork, leaving some beans whole.
Stir in the minced garlic, cumin and a pinch of salt and cook 2 minutes.
Off the heat, stir in most of the lemon juice and half the olive oil.
Spoon into a shallow bowl, top with the chopped tomato, parsley and chopped green chili, and finish with the remaining olive oil and a squeeze more lemon.
Serve warm as a hearty bowl on its own, the everyday breakfast that has become part of the Gulf's own morning table.

Watch how to cook Foul Medames

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

How to Make Ful Medames (Egyptian Fava Beans) | Easy Traditional Recipe Play the video

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Foul Medames carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Foul Medames
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 360 kcal
Protein: 14 g
Carbs: 32 g
Fat: 20 g
Fiber: 8 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 750 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Foul Medames takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.