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Granted, I won’t be swapping fava beans for a bacon sarnie long term, but ful medames is pretty delicious. Then it’s back in the Land Rover for a conservation drive.

Ful medames… a Middle-Eastern breakast staple. Alamy This seemingly simple breakfast dish is a staple for millions in the likes of Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and more.

In Egypt, for example, it's common to top hummus with ful medames—a seasoned fava bean dish typically flavoured with ground cumin and finished with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

Strapped for time and money, home cooks are rediscovering just how far a bag of beans can stretch.

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Variations of ful medames exist across North Africa, West Asia and Southern Europe, with likely roots in Ancient Egypt — ful is Arabic for bean, while medames means “buried” in the Coptic ...

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Since I was now in very unfamiliar territory with Egyptian cuisine, and needed a proper win after my illness, I chose the ful medames recipe – a kind of bean stew enjoyed all over the eastern ...