Sudan

🇸🇩Sudan

Mullah Ahmar

Minced beef cooked down with tomato, onion, garlic and niaimiya spice into a thick red sauce poured over asida.

🇸🇩Sudan

Mullah Sharmout

Sun-dried strips of beef rehydrated and cooked with onion and dried okra into a dark, intensely savoury stew.

🇸🇩Sudan

Nashaa

A Sudanese starch-thickened sauce served with meat or vegetables.

🇸🇩Sudan

Niaimiya

Ni'aimiya

The house spice blend of Sudanese kitchens — black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, coriander, cumin and clove, ground fine.

🇸🇩Sudan

Peanut Butter Salad

Salatat dakwa

Tomato, cucumber and onion chopped fine and dressed with peanut butter loosened with lemon juice and water.

🇸🇩Sudan

Sabaroag

A Sudanese vegetable preparation cooked with onion, tomato and local spice.

🇸🇩Sudan

Shaaria

Sudanese noodles cooked with aromatics and served as a home-style side or light meal.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Shahan Ful

ሻህን ፉል

Stewed fava beans served with chopped fresh vegetables and spices — a lighter, salad-like cousin of ful medames, popular as a fasting dish and street breakfast.

🇸🇩Sudan

Shai bil Laban

Black tea boiled with powdered or evaporated milk and heavily sweetened, often with cinnamon or cardamom.

🇸🇩Sudan

Shaiyah

Cubes of lamb or beef fried hard in a heavy pan with onion, chilli and cumin and tipped straight onto paper on the table.

🇸🇩Sudan

Sharmout

Beef cut in strips, salted and hung to dry hard in the sun, then stored for months and broken into stews.

🇸🇩Sudan

Sudanese Asida

Asida

Sorghum or wheat flour stirred into boiling water into a smooth white mound, served with a stew poured into a hollow pressed in the top.

🇸🇩Sudan

Sudanese Creme Caramel

Krem karamil

A set egg-and-milk custard over dark caramel, sold in small tubs from refrigerated cabinets everywhere in Khartoum.

🇸🇩Sudan

Sudanese Hilu Mudaffar

Hilu mudaffar

Plaited strands of sweet dough deep fried and dipped in syrup, sold in coils at Ramadan.

🇪🇬Egypt

Sudanese Kamounia

Kamounia

Liver and lung cooked down with a great deal of cumin, garlic and chilli into a dark, dry stew.

🇸🇩Sudan

Sudanese Ta'miya Sandwich

Sandwich ta'miya

Split bread packed with fried chickpea patties, salad, tahina and a spoon of shatta chilli, wrapped in paper at a street kiosk.

🇸🇩Sudan

Sudanese Tamiya

Tamiya

Ground chickpeas with coriander, garlic and cumin shaped into small patties and fried, served in bread with salad and tahini.

🇩🇿Algeria

Sudanese Zalabia

Zalabia

Loose yeasted batter dropped into hot oil in irregular blobs, drained and rolled in sugar or soaked in syrup.

🇸🇩Sudan

Tabaldi Juice

Gongolez

The chalky white pulp of the baobab fruit soaked in water and sweetened into a tart, cloudy drink.

🇸🇩Sudan

Umfitit

Sheep's offal chopped small and mixed with lemon, onion and chilli, sometimes with bread torn through it.

🇪🇬Egypt

Umm Ali

أم علي

Egyptian-origin bread pudding made with puff pastry, milk, cream, and nuts, popular during Ramadan in UAE, warm comforting pudding with crispy pastry pieces and balanced nuts and raisins, a beloved dessert.

🇸🇩Sudan

Waika

Dried okra ground to powder and stirred into broth so it thickens into a stretching, slippery sauce for asida.