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Egyptian okra stew braised with lamb, tomatoes, garlic, and coriander into a tender, savory comfort dish.
⏱ 90 min🔥 420 kcalMedium
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12 recipes using tomatoes — Koshari, ful medames, molokhia — ancient recipes from the Nile valley.
These 12 egyptian tomatoes recipes are ready in about 129 minutes on average, with 280–620 kcal per serving, and 25% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
Egyptian cuisine — Koshari, ful medames, molokhia — ancient recipes from the Nile valley — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Egyptian cooks work with tomatoes, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying and roasting.
Sweet-acidic fruit that forms the backbone of sauces, stews and salads across nearly every cuisine. In this collection it's most often cooked with ground cumin, ground coriander, garlic, tomato paste, onions and brown lentils. The dishes here span egyptian classics ready in as little as 30 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Koshary — Egyptian Street Food is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 4,321 ratings.
Egyptian okra stew braised with lamb, tomatoes, garlic, and coriander into a tender, savory comfort dish.
Egypt's beloved street food — a hearty bowl of rice, lentils, macaroni and chickpeas topped with a spiced tomato sauce, crispy fried onions and a garlicky vinegar dressing.
Egypt's ancient breakfast staple — slow-cooked fava beans seasoned with cumin, lemon and garlic, finished with olive oil and served with eggs, pitta and fresh vegetables.
Egypt's ultimate street food: layers of rice, lentils, macaroni and chickpeas topped with spiced tomato sauce, crispy onions and a garlic-vinegar daqqa — the country's most beloved dish.
Egypt's beloved street food national dish — a hearty bowl of rice, lentils, and pasta topped with spiced tomato sauce, crispy fried onions, and a garlicky vinegar drizzle.
Tender vegetables — zucchini, peppers, tomatoes — stuffed with herbed rice and slow-cooked in tomato broth.
Egypt's most popular street dish — a layered bowl of rice, lentils, macaroni, chickpeas, crispy onions and two sauces: spicy tomato and tangy vinegar. Cairo on a plate.
Egypt's national breakfast and one of the world's oldest dishes — dried fava beans slow-cooked until tender and mashed with cumin, lemon and olive oil. Eaten by pharaohs and Cairo traffic wardens alike.
Egypt's ultimate street food — a layered bowl of rice, lentils, pasta and chickpeas with spiced tomato sauce and crispy fried onions.
Egypt's national breakfast — slow-simmered fava beans crushed at the bowl with lemon, garlic, cumin, and olive oil.
Cairo's beloved national street food — layered rice, brown lentils, macaroni and chickpeas under a garlicky tomato sauce, crisp fried onions, and a fiery vinegar-chilli daqqa.
Egypt's national dish — layered rice, lentils, pasta, chickpeas with tomato sauce and crispy onions.
Ripe tomatoes smell fragrant at the stem and give slightly to a gentle squeeze. For cooking out of season, good-quality tinned tomatoes often beat pale fresh ones.
Store at room temperature, never the fridge, which kills their flavour and texture. Score and blanch to slip off skins; salting slices draws out excess water for salads.
A low-calorie source of vitamin C, potassium and the antioxidant lycopene — which actually becomes more available when tomatoes are cooked.
Most of these 12 Egyptian tomatoes recipes are ready in around 129 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Ful Medames (Egyptian Fava Bean Stew), takes about 30 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 660 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 280 to 620 kcal per serving, averaging 478 kcal — Ful Medames (Egyptian Fava Bean Stew) is the lightest option at 280 kcal.
Ful Medames is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 45 minutes. 25% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, tomatoes is most often paired with ground cumin, ground coriander, garlic, tomato paste, onions and brown lentils. Egyptian kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.