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Fuul Midammis - Egyptian Stewed Broad Beans

2 cups dry broad beans

1/2 cup split lentils

Optional (for stewing):

1 tomato

1 carrot

1 onion

To serve:

crushed garlic

ground cumin

salt and pepper to taste

lemon wedges

tomatoes, chopped

onions, chopped

Kalamata olives

feta cheese

 

 

 

1. Place beans and lentils in a pot with at least

three times their measure in water. Bring to a boil.

Cover and let sit 60 mins. Drain water. Fill with

fresh lukewarm water. (Or ignore this step, and just

soak overnight).

 

2. Boil over quick flame, then add any or all the

optional vegetables.

 

3. Bring to boil again (after adding veggie), cover

very tightly, and simmer over very slow flame for 6-9

hours, or overnight, adding more boiling water

whenever the water is absorbed and beans are dry (cold

water will shrivel the beans, change the taste, and

make them hard). This is the basis of Fuul Midammis.

 

4. When tender to taste, mash the beans with oil

(cottonseed, olive, linseed, or corn oil), lemon,

salt, and any of the following ingredients: crushed

garlic, grated onions, chopped tomatoes, and cumin.

 

5. Hardboiled eggs, onions soaked in vinegar, and

mixed pickles are always eaten with local bread.

 

Serves 4

 

Source: Ahmed H Eissa

Formatted by Chupa Babi: 11.25.07

 

A Dammasa - An Egyptian stewing pot is a metal,

vase-shaped pot with a tight lid and narrow neck used

chiefly to stew dried broad beans, or Fuul.

There are two main types: one is used on direct flame

and the second has an electric heating element.

Electric Dammasa are available with different heating

elements: one is placed on a low-watt electric

hotplate to keep the beans simmering, while the other

has a low-watt rod-shaped heating element and two

lids. The first lid is used to cover the beans while

the pot is on a direct flame until the water boils,

and the second lid has a hole through which the

heating element is placed to keep the beans hot and

simmering after they are removed from the flame. It is

important to keep the Dammassa resting on a warm

surface while the rod-shaped heating element is inside

it.

 

ChupaNote: I put the crushed garlic, and ground cumin

i the cooking water with the carrot, onion, and

tomatoe (ll cut in wedges). Put it in a 6 quart slow

cooker and fill to 2/3 full with liquid (water, tomato

juice, broth, whatever you yearn for), with onion,

carrot, tomato, cumin, and garlic and cook overnight.

Finish it in the morning, mashing with olive oil and

serving with condiments.

 

If you don't want all the fuss, you can but fuul in a

can at MidEastern groceries. Mash it with fine quality

olive oil and fresh squeezed lemon juice, dress with

minced garlic, cumin. Serve with chopped onion, black

olives, chopped tomatoes, lemon wedges and chopped

hard boiled eggs, accompanied by feta cheese and good

rustic bread, and more olive oil. And the blackest

thickest coffee made on the planet.

 

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May I assume that broad beans for Fuul are what I call fava beans that

are used a lot in middle eastern cooking and grow like weeds where I live?

 

Kathleen

Eureka CA

 

Fuul Midammis - Egyptian Stewed Broad Beans

> 2 cups dry broad beans

> 1/2 cup split lentils

> Optional (for stewing):

> 1 tomato

> 1 carrot

> 1 onion

> To serve:

> crushed garlic

> ground cumin

> salt and pepper to taste

> lemon wedges

> tomatoes, chopped

> onions, chopped

> Kalamata olives

> feta cheese

>

>

>

> 1. Place beans and lentils in a pot with at least

> three times their measure in water. Bring to a boil.

> Cover and let sit 60 mins. Drain water. Fill with

> fresh lukewarm water. (Or ignore this step, and just

> soak overnight).

>

> 2. Boil over quick flame, then add any or all the

> optional vegetables.

>

> 3. Bring to boil again (after adding veggie), cover

> very tightly, and simmer over very slow flame for 6-9

> hours, or overnight, adding more boiling water

> whenever the water is absorbed and beans are dry (cold

> water will shrivel the beans, change the taste, and

> make them hard). This is the basis of Fuul Midammis.

>

> 4. When tender to taste, mash the beans with oil

> (cottonseed, olive, linseed, or corn oil), lemon,

> salt, and any of the following ingredients: crushed

> garlic, grated onions, chopped tomatoes, and cumin.

>

> 5. Hardboiled eggs, onions soaked in vinegar, and

> mixed pickles are always eaten with local bread.

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