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How to Make Ful Medames: Egyptian Fava Beans Dish


hi welcome to watchmojo.com my name is
Enoch Robinson I’m with any courts comm
and today I have a special guest joining
me to show you a cooking recipe from
Egypt
I have Anthony chamois with me from
Khepri expeditions you want to tell us a
little bit about what Khepri expeditions
is sure
well we organized ecotourism trips and a
lot of the activities that we organize
while we’re traveling we like to get
people involved as much as possible with
the locals so a perfect way to have a
cultural exchange activity is through a
cooking workshop so today we’re going to
be making full Madame s food mode Emmas
yes which is very typical in Egypt you
basically eat fool every single day when
you wake up it’s a good breakfast you
can even have it for lunch and dinner
and there’s even an export tax on the
fava beans which is the main ingredient
as we’re gonna see later because I think
the government wants to make sure
there’s as many fava beans as possible
that stay in Egypt it’s such an
important staple so we’re gonna prepare
the hot ingredients first then we’re
gonna prepare the cold ingredients third
step is we’re gonna put them together
and eat it I love you so this first step
putting together the hot ingredients
what is going into our pot so we have
fava beans chickpeas which are optional
you could go with just five beans which
is very typical we have some tomatoes
chopped up we have some chopped up
onions as well in this case it’s red
onions we have some garlic also really
essential in this case chopped up with a
little bit of ginger and we have a
really essential spice cumin and we also
have some turmeric and both of those
spices by the way are really essential
cancer-fighting spices so if you have a
weakness in your family or you’re
concerned about protecting yourself
against cancer you can throw those
spices and just about everything that
you eat it really does help
should we start cooking let’s go for it
so Anthony how long are we going to cook
this in the pot for now
well since the beans have already been
prepared we’re going to be cooking this
on low to medium heat for about 10
minutes constantly stirring and if you
don’t have beans already prepared then
what I like to do is like prepare them
during the weekend and then I have them
in my fridge ready use for all sorts of
recipes during the week for people that
are on a gluten-free diet I really like
this recipe because it’s high in protein
high in fiber this is a breakfast that’s
going to keep you going all morning long
there’s a lot of healthy benefits to all
of the ingredients that go into this pot
so we were cooking it and mixing it in
on medium now we put it down to low we
can leave it aside for a few minutes we
don’t want it to overcook but we will be
serving it hot right so we’ve covered it
to just make sure it stays nice and warm
right now we’re going to assemble the
cold ingredients it’s got some olive oil
as rice tomatoes parsley coriander green
onions some chives basil lime juice salt
and pepper to taste delicious everything
comes together really well yeah so let’s
do it okay
why don’t we add a little bit more olive
oil since it’s getting a little bit dry
there we go gonna help you mix it up so
now we’re ready to assemble it and serve
it yes so first things first
so let’s put some of the fool in here
there we go that’s a nice little portion
to start with and it’s my favorite part
Matheny tell me when to stop well it’s
better not to put too much everybody
eats it with a different level of
toppings so start with a little bit and
then you can keep adding if you like the
flavor so it’s really to taste so the
next thing we’re gonna add in some
chopped egg so here I have about one and
a half hard-boiled eggs chopped up I
recommend that you use about one
hard-boiled egg per person just
nutritionally speaking you have about
one about three-quarters of a portion of
protein already in the bowl
so we want to add in one more little
portion but some people don’t even eat
eggs with their food but I love it so at
least one egg for me don’t hesitate and
putting the yolk in when you use a whole
egg it actually helps lower your hunger
hormone for the next 24 hours while
increasing your metabolism for the next
24 hours so it increases your your fat
burning potential for the next 24 hours
and it helps decrease your bad
cholesterol and it increases your good
cholesterol so don’t be afraid to use
eggs it’s really that that’s an old myth
it’s been debunked and so it’s one of my
favourite breakfast foods
what’s the next ingredient well we’re
gonna put some tequila so tahina is
basically or tahini like some people
would say it’s basically a puree of
sesame seeds mm-hmm and you know what I
like about using a sesame seeds in just
about anything is not only do they add a
lot of flavor but they’re a high source
of protein high source of calcium and a
high source of iron so you don’t need
dairy in order to get some calcium into
your diet actually adding in some sesame
seeds some hummus and tahini is a great
way to go how much do I pick well if it
was my plate you would put a lot but for
demonstration purposes let’s just put a
little bit on there unless it’s
garnished with some parsley and now
we’re ready well thanks for watching
watchmojo.com and thanks Anthony for
joining us today
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