Food of Egypt
11 traditional dishes · Africa
Koshari
Egypt's national street food — a hearty bowl of rice, lentils and pasta under spiced tomato sauce and crispy onions.
Taameya
From Egypt, Taameya is a well-known street food.
Feteer Meshaltet
Many-layered flaky pastry, sweet or savoury.
Hawawshi
Spiced minced meat baked inside crisp flatbread.
Kushari
Kushari is one of the classic dishes in the rice dish tradition of Egypt.
Umm Ali
Warm milk pudding of pastry, nuts and coconut.
Aish Merahrah
Sourdough-maize flatbread from Upper Egypt, leavened with fenugreek and baked on clay taboons in Nile-valley towns from Beni Suef to Sohag.
Ful Medames
Slow-cooked fava beans mashed with oil, lemon and cumin.
Kunāfah
Kunāfah is one of the classic dishes in the sweet pastry tradition of Egypt.
Molokhia
Garlicky green jute-leaf stew over rice.
Rumi
Rumi is one of the classic dishes in the cheese tradition of Egypt.