Egyptian cuisine In the national Egyptian cuisineVegetarian dishes are more widely represented than meat dishes. These include beans, rice, stewed potatoes, original salads, for example, from oranges and olives with pepper. Meat cuisine, first of all - chicken and beef. Kyufta is popular - chopped cutlets fried on skewers (resembling marinated meat fried on a grill (resembling shashlik), and shawarma (what is sold under this name in our country only resembles the original). Well, and delicacies - stuffed pigeons and camel liver. Egyptians have wonderful pastries and sweets. Local mineral water is good (never drink from the tap), and local beer is also quite decent, guides even say that Egypt is the birthplace of brewing. The national non-alcoholic drink hibiscus, known in our country as "red tea", Egyptians drink cold. By the way, you can buy hibiscus for home, it will be a good gift. Here it is sold in the form of some gnarled fragments, but it turns out that this is a rather large a flower, hibiscus, which is beautiful even when dried.
Egyptian cuisine recipes Five star cuisineThe hotel's menu is adapted to European tastes with some Arabic exoticism. In addition to Italian dishes and continental salads, the evening buffet includes a whole ram or a meter-long perch. A wide variety of kyufta, kebabs, fried and stuffed fish (mackerel, horse mackerel, sultan-ibrahim, red mullet, small flounder), eggplants with meat, salads with squid, octopus, boiled and fried shrimp are generously presented. Lamb ribs or chicken shashlik are grilled on the grill outside, and flatbreads are baked in tandoors. Eastern sweets include baklava, malahabija, sweet flatbreads with pistachios, sesame and pistachio halva, local types of Turkish delight, candied nuts, and dried fruits - dates, muls, sliced figs and dried apricots. A typical lunch in a cheap resort restaurant: a simple salad - tykhina, bread, tomatoes and cucumbers, lamb shashlik, rice with liver and water from a plastic bottle, you can order grilled fish with appetizers (salad, tykhina, optional - spicy pickles) or Seafood cocktail (the same appetizers, a little bit of one to three types of fish, squid, shrimp). In a hotel, the same dishes will cost two to three times more.
What else is offered in EgyptShakshuka - an omelette withmeat and tomatoes. Molokheya is a cream soup made from chicken, herbs, garlic and vegetables (potatoes, peppers, pumpkin, zucchini, tomatoes or carrots). Kibda is lamb or beef liver with rice or in a flatbread, or even with apples, bananas and oranges. Kushari is finely chopped pasta with lentils and onions. Cairo chicken is chicken that is pre-marinated and boiled until tender, coated with honey and placed in a hot oven for a minute. Hummus is beans or chickpeas soaked in acidified water and boiled (this is different from tykhina!), and then mashed with vegetable oil. Hummus can be eggplant, beetroot, pepper, garlic - that's how they are named for the additional additives. Bon appetit, travelers!
