Egypt Recipes
Five thousand years of feeding people along one river. Here are 4 authentic Egypt recipes, each from a specific region, with cultural context and dietary substitutions for every table.
4 recipes
🇪🇬 Koshari
Cairo, Egypt · easy · 60 min
Cairo’s beloved carb-on-carb street food: lentils, rice, and pasta under spiced tomato sauce and crispy onions.
🇪🇬 Ful Medames
Alexandria, Egypt · easy · 35 min
Slow-cooked fava beans mashed with cumin, lemon, and olive oil — the breakfast that has powered Egypt for millennia.
🇪🇬 Molokhia
Cairo, Egypt · easy · 40 min
Finely minced jute leaves cooked into a green, garlicky soup finished with a sizzling coriander-garlic ta’leya.
🇪🇬 Sahlab
Cairo, Egypt · easy · 20 min
A warm, thick, milky winter drink scented with cinnamon and topped with nuts and coconut.