Appetizers
Baba Ghanoug Masri
The Egyptian version, which is a salad rather than a purée: charred aubergine chopped rough and mixed with tomato…
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Egyptian appetizer recipes
12 Egyptian appetizer recipes, in a suggested order.
These are the 12 Egyptian recipes filed under appetizers: 12 of the 585 appetisers and small plates on the site, and 12 of its 47 Egyptian recipes. Of these, 4 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Egyptian Tahina (10 min), Gebna Domiati Salad (15 min) and Salata Baladi (15 min). For 6, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 10 easy and 2 medium.
As written, 10 are vegetarian, 9 vegan, 7 gluten-free and 10 dairy-free. Another 4 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Egyptian appetizer recipes — all 12 recipes
Appetizers
Batarekh
Grey mullet roe, salted and pressed and dried into a hard amber block, sliced paper-thin with oil and lemon. Egypt…
Appetizers
Batates Mohammara
Potatoes roasted hard with cumin, coriander and a lot of garlic until the edges go almost black. Sold from carts by…
Appetizers
Besara
Broad beans cooked to a purée with an enormous quantity of green herbs, poured out flat and topped with fried onion…
Appetizers
Betengan Mekhalel
Small aubergines boiled, stuffed with garlic, chilli and pepper, and kept under oil and vinegar. Sharper and hotter…
Appetizers
Dukkah
Toasted nuts, seeds and spices pounded to a dry rubble, eaten by dipping bread in oil and then in the dukkah. Every…
Appetizers
Gebna Domiati Salad
The soft white brined cheese of Damietta, cubed with tomato, cucumber and oil into a breakfast salad. Salty enough…
Appetizers
Renga
Smoked herring flaked and dressed with lemon, oil and raw onion, eaten at Sham el-Nessim with spring onions and…
Appetizers
Salata Baladi
The chopped country salad that arrives with everything: tomato, cucumber, onion and pepper cut small, dressed with…
Appetizers
Ta'ameya
Egypt's falafel, and a genuinely different thing from the Levantine one: split broad beans rather than chickpeas, a…
Appetizers
Egyptian Tahina
The Egyptian tahini sauce, thinner and sharper than the Levantine one, cut with vinegar as well as lemon and always…
Appetizers
Torshi
The pink pickled turnips that come free with every plate of ta'ameya in Egypt. Beetroot does the colouring; the…