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Dried beans (chickpeas + kidney beans + green lentils, OR the popular cheat of mixing all dried into one pot) soak overnight
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Dried beans (chickpeas + kidney beans + green lentils, OR the popular cheat of mixing all dried into one pot) soak overnight

Bessara is the Egyptian fava-bean dip the colour of pale green, a thicker, smoother cousin to ful medames eaten across…

Bombay Potatoes is comfort food at its finest

Cooked chickpeas (tinned for speed, OR overnight-soaked and home-cooked for the best texture) toss with diced red onion…

Dolmadakia are the Greek stuffed vine leaves, small cigar-shaped rolls of softened vine leaves wrapped around a herby…

Dried chickpeas soak overnight (never cooked, chickpeas must remain raw)

Dried chickpeas (or a chickpea-fava blend) soak overnight

Fasolada is the Greek bean soup that's often called the country's national dish, a slow-cooked pot of haricot beans…

Spinach is wilted briefly with salt, drained, squeezed dry

A soft yeasted olive-oil dough rises for 45 minutes

Pita breads are torn into pieces and toasted (or fried) until crisp and crunchy

A torn pita is brushed with olive oil and grilled or fried until golden and crisp

The Saudi take on foul medames, somewhere between the Egyptian original and the Yemeni daal-like versions

Fried green tomatoes are the South's answer to using up the last of the summer tomato patch before frost, firm unripe…

Ful medames is the breakfast Egypt has been eating since pharaonic times, dried fava beans slow-cooked overnight into…

Iraqi falafel is the version with cardamom and dill, distinct from the Levantine green-coriander variety, made with…