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Cairo, Egypt
6 dishes to eat in Cairo, what is in them, and where they belong.
Rice, lentils, macaroni, chickpeas, tomato sauce and fried onions in one bowl. The national dish, and reliably vegetarian.
Slow-cooked fava beans with oil, lemon and cumin, scooped with baladi bread. Breakfast for most of the country.
The Egyptian falafel, made from fava beans rather than chickpeas, greener inside and lighter.
Jute leaf cooked to a green, deliberately viscous soup with garlic and coriander, served over rice with rabbit or chicken.
Spiced minced meat baked inside baladi bread until the crust crisps.
Warm pastry pudding with milk, nuts and raisins — the standard Egyptian dessert.
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