Egyptian cuisine

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Egyptian cuisine makes heavy use of legumes, vegetables and fruit from Egypt's rich Nile Valley and Delta.

Examples[edit]

  • Examples of Egyptian dishes include rice-stuffed vegetables and grape leaves, hummus, falafel, shawarma, kebab and kofta.
  • Other items include ful medames, mashed fava beans; kushari, lentils and pasta; and molokhiya, bush okra stew.

Pita bread[edit]

Pita bread, known locally as eish baladi (Egyptian Arabic: عيش (ʕeːʃ ); Modern Standard Arabic: ʿayš) is a staple of Egyptian cuisine, and cheesemaking in Egypt dates back to the First Dynasty of Egypt, with domty being the most popular type of cheese consumed today.

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