Egyptian cuisine In the national Egyptian cuisinevegetarian dishes are presented more widely than meat ones. These are beans, rice, stewed potatoes, original salads, for example, from oranges and olives with peppers. Meat cuisine, primarily chicken and beef. Popular kyufta - chopped cutlets fried on skewers (they remind me of marinated meat fried on the grill (reminiscent of a shashlik), and shawarma (what they sell under this name only resembles the original) .Well, the delicacies are stuffed pigeons and camel's liver The Egyptians have wonderful pastries and sweets.The local mineral water is good (in no case drink from the tap), the local beer is also quite worthy, the guides even say that Egypt is the birthplace of brewing. "Red tea", the Egyptians drink cold. By the way, karkade can be bought at home, it will be a good gift. We sell it in the form of some kind of gnarled fragments, but it turns out that this is a rather large flower, hibiscus, which is beautiful even when dried. 
Egyptian Cuisine Recipes Five-Star CuisineThe hotel is adapted to European tastes with some added Arabic exotics. In addition to dishes of Italian cuisine and “continental” salads, a whole sheep or a meter-long perch-measure is served for an evening buffet. A variety of kufta, kebabs, fried and stuffed fish (mackerel, horse mackerel, sultan-ibrahim, red mullet, small flounder), eggplants with meat, salads with squid, octopus, boiled and fried shrimps are generously presented. On the street on the grill, grilled lamb ribs or chicken skewers on the grill, and in tandoors they bake cakes. From eastern sweets - baklava, malahabi, sweet flat cakes with pistachios, sesame and pistachio halvah, local types of lukum, candied nuts, and also dried fruits - dates, here, sliced figs and dried apricots. Ordinary lunch at a cheap resort restaurant: simple salad - tykhina, bread, tomatoes plus cucumbers, lamb shashlik, rice with liver and water from a plastic bottle, you can order grilled fish with appetizers (salad, tyhyna, if desired - spicy pickles) or Seafood cocktail (the same appetizers, little by little, fish of one or three species, squid, shrimp). In the hotel the same dishes will cost two to three times more expensive. 
What else is offered in EgyptShakshuk - an omelet with meatand tomatoes. Molokhheya - soup of chicken, herbs, garlic and vegetables (potatoes, peppers, pumpkins, zucchini, tomatoes or carrots). Kibda - lamb or beef liver with rice or in a flat cake, or even with apples, bananas and oranges. Kushari - finely chopped pasta with lentils and onions. Chicken in Cairo - pre-marinated and boiled until ready chicken, smeared with honey and placed for a minute in a hot oven. Hummus - soaked in acidified water and boiled (that's the difference from tychyna!), And then beans or peas pounded with vegetable oil. Hummus are eggplant, beet, pepper, garlic - so they are named for additional additives. Bon appetit travelers!
