Sudan

🇸🇩Sudan

Aabrai

A Sudanese fermented grain preparation served as a tangy breakfast or light meal.

🇸🇩Sudan

Agashe

Strips of beef coated in a groundnut and chilli powder and grilled over coals on skewers.

🇸🇩Sudan

Ajwa Sudanese

Ajwa

Dates served as a Sudanese sweet and hospitality food.

🇸🇩Sudan

Aradeb

Tamarind pulp soaked and strained into a dark, sour drink served very cold, often at iftar.

🇸🇩Sudan

Araqi

A clear spirit distilled illegally from fermented dates, drunk neat in the countryside and at private gatherings.

🇪🇬Egypt

Bamia

بامية

A Egyptian okra stew with beef or lamb in tomato and garlic sauce, a daily and home classic

🇪🇬Egypt

Basbousa

بسبوسة

A Egyptian semolina cake soaked in sugar syrup, topped with almonds or coconut, a daily and sweet shop classic

🇸🇩Sudan

Baseema

A Sudanese semolina cake sweetened with syrup and scented with cardamom.

🇸🇩Sudan

Bussaara

Dried okra and meat cooked with peanut butter and niaimiya into a thick brown stew served over asida or kisra.

🇸🇩Sudan

Dakwa

Peanuts roasted and pounded coarse with salt into a rough butter that thickens stews, dresses salads and is eaten on bread.

🇸🇩Sudan

Dama

A Sudanese meat preparation cooked slowly with onion and aromatic spice.

🇸🇩Sudan

Doum Fruit

Doum

The fibrous, gingerbread-flavoured fruit of the doum palm, gnawed for its dry outer layer or ground and soaked into a drink.

🇸🇩Sudan

Dukhun

A Sudanese sorghum preparation cooked as a staple alongside sauces and stews.

🇸🇩Sudan

Eggplant with Yogurt

Salata aswad

Aubergine charred whole over flame, peeled and mashed with peanut butter, garlic, chilli and lemon.

🇸🇩Sudan

Elmaraara

Raw sheep's liver, lung and stomach chopped fine and dressed with peanut butter, lemon, chilli and salt.

🇸🇩Sudan

Elmussalammiya

Liver cooked with flour, dates and spices into a dense, faintly sweet stew unique to central Sudan.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Eritrean Shahan Ful

Shahan Ful

Eritrean breakfast of slow-cooked fava beans mashed with onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, cumin, lemon juice, and olive oil; served with bread rolls for dipping; especially popular during Lent and Ramadan; a Horn of Africa staple.

🇸🇩Sudan

Ful Medames

فول مدمس

Dried fava beans simmered soft and crushed at the table with lemon, garlic, cumin and olive oil, eaten with raw onion and bread.

🇸🇸South Sudan

Ful Sudani

Light and fluffy peanut macaroon made with peanuts, eggs, and sugar; peanuts are a widely grown crop in South Sudan; a quick and convenient treat; sweet, nutty, and crumbly; found at markets and made at home.

🇸🇩Sudan

Goraasa be Dama

Thick Sudanese griddle bread served with a rich tomato and meat sauce.

🇸🇩Sudan

Guddaim

A Sudanese drink made from the tart guddaim fruit and served chilled.

🇸🇩Sudan

Gum Arabic

Samgh arabi

Hardened sap tapped from acacia trees in the Kordofan belt, chewed in lumps, dissolved in drinks and exported worldwide as a food additive.

🇸🇩Sudan

Gurasa

Gorrassa

A thick, soft wheat pancake cooked on a griddle and eaten with meat stew poured over it until it soaks through.

🇸🇩Sudan

Helo-Mur

Sorghum fermented with spices, hibiscus and fenugreek, dried into brittle sheets, then soaked in water to make the drink that breaks the Ramadan fast.

🇸🇩Sudan

Jabana

Coffee roasted over coals in front of you, pounded with ginger or cardamom and boiled in a long-necked clay pot, then strained through grass into small cups.

🇸🇩Sudan

Jibna Bayda

A soft white cow's cheese preserved in brine, cut in slabs and eaten with bread and ful at breakfast.

🇸🇩Sudan

Kajaik

Nile fish dried and pounded, then cooked with okra and onion into a pungent stew from the south and the White Nile.

🇸🇩Sudan

Karkade (Hibiscus Tea)

كركديه

Egypt's beloved hibiscus tea, served hot or cold with sugar, a national and hospitality icon

🇸🇩Sudan

Kawal

Leaves of the senna plant pounded and buried in a clay pot to ferment for weeks, then dried and crumbled into stews as a meat substitute.

🇸🇩Sudan

Kawari

Cattle or sheep trotters simmered for hours with onion and spice until the broth turns gelatinous and the tendons go soft.

🇸🇸South Sudan

Kisra

Sorghum batter fermented for days and spread paper-thin on a hot iron plate, peeled off in sheets and stacked to be torn and dipped.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Luqaimat

لقيمات

Luqaimat are sweet fried dough dumplings with a crisp exterior and airy center, drizzled with date syrup and sesame seeds for Ramadan iftar.

🇸🇩Sudan

Madeeda Hilba

A Sudanese fenugreek pudding sweetened and served warm or cool.

🇸🇩Sudan

Miris

Sheep's fat rendered with onion, dried okra and spice into a rich, strong stew traditionally made after a slaughter.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Molokhia

ملوخية

Jute mallow leaves cooked into a green stew with chicken or lamb, served over rice with vinegar, onion and toasted bread.

🇸🇩Sudan

Moukhbaza

Ripe bananas mashed with butter and honey or sugar into a thick sweet paste eaten with bread.