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I am a vegetarian. I cannot bear to eat anything with meat or meat juices in it. What sort of vegetarian dishes can I come to expect in Egypt??
esposible Member # 2955
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Thanks for bringing this up. I am also interested about this.
Raymon Member # 3727
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green (Egyptian) salad ... fuul ... taamiya ... papa ghanoug ... mesa2a3a ...
Copts are now in the last week of their fasting ... (Coptic Easter is next Sunday) fasting for them means turning vegeterian. My advice is that you ask Copts.
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Koosjeri (rice with spaghetti and lentls), bread with french fries (eys, batates), fried aubergines, vegetarian bamia (halfslymi vegetable in tomatosauce, my favourite!) with rice. We eat veganistic this week before eastern and I learned that just in case I could get track of food withoud meat the most easy at the chinese restaurant. As there are some in the greater cities in Egypt. Just tell them you eat veganistic or vegetarian.
Nutso_Ordinary Member # 3826
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quote:Originally posted by GiggleGirl: I am a vegetarian. I cannot bear to eat anything with meat or meat juices in it. What sort of vegetarian dishes can I come to expect in Egypt??
Lamb chops are my favorite, but I also like Kabob and Kufta and of course chiken stuffed with cute little birdies.
carina Member # 3843
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quote:Originally posted by GiggleGirl: I am a vegetarian. I cannot bear to eat anything with meat or meat juices in it. What sort of vegetarian dishes can I come to expect in Egypt??
how long are you a vegetarian?
GiggleGirl Member # 3822
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quote:Originally posted by carina: how long are you a vegetarian?
For about 5 years now.
Dalia Member # 1230
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Being a vegetarian in Egypt is easy - if you like Middle Eastern food. Even if you go to a restaurant that has no vegetarian main course you can order lots of appetizers and fill up on them ... they are delicious. And it's not only salads, there are plenty of dips, made of roasted eggplants, chickpeas, sesame paste etc., and you eat them with bread.
There is also mashi - zucchini, peppers or vine leaves stuffed with rice. Very yummy.
And, of course, kushary. Hmm ... my cleaning lady just cooked it for me yesterday and it's gorgeous ... rice, lentils, pasta and chickpeas with some spicy tomato sauce and fried onions.
GiggleGirl Member # 3822
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quote:Originally posted by Dalia: Being a vegetarian in Egypt is easy - if you like Middle Eastern food. Even if you go to a restaurant that has no vegetarian main course you can order lots of appetizers and fill up on them ... they are delicious. And it's not only salads, there are plenty of dips, made of roasted eggplants, chickpeas, sesame paste etc., and you eat them with bread.
There is also mashi - zucchini, peppers or vine leaves stuffed with rice. Very yummy.
And, of course, kushary. Hmm ... my cleaning lady just cooked it for me yesterday and it's gorgeous ... rice, lentils, pasta and chickpeas with some spicy tomato sauce and fried onions.
Yum yum!!! I will have to have that dish. It sounds fantastic!! Is it commonly served in restraunts?
strangelookingnegro Member # 151
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quote:Originally posted by GiggleGirl: Yum yum!!! I will have to have that dish. It sounds fantastic!! Is it commonly served in restraunts?
It's not so much in all restaurants (although there are a few that do have it on the menu), but there are specific Kosheri restaurants in every neighborhood. It is one of those "economical" foods that back-packers learn to live on while here, so find any back-packers while on your holiday and they will be able to introduce you to it.
Raymon Member # 3727
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GiggleGirl, The best Koshari shop is Abu Tarek at Downtown Cairo.
Go to Tahrir Square and ask for Koshari Abu Tarek and they will tell you where.
I like to eat it as evening meal and I am guaranteed to have a deep sleep that night.
Most restaurants in hotels do not serve it, you'll have to look for places that are not in obvious tourist area and where locals might eat. It's cheap and filling.
Try to be sure it's cooked thoroughly and hot. Maybe best not to go into a kushari restaurant in late evening as it may not be a fresh batch.
I read somewhere on the boards something unpleasant about rice that is reheated, then cooled then reheated many times.
carina Member # 3843
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strangelookingnegro Member # 151
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Here's an idea. Ask a local to point you to a GOOD kosheri restaurant. If the place is popular, and if you go when there are loads of people there, the food will be fresh. At my favorite one (across Al Ahzar from the Khan) they are usually bringing out loads of pasta, rice, onions, etc while I'm sitting there eatting as the Kosheri is going out the door so fast. Nothing there has too much chance to get cold or old.
Like you I'm a vegetarian. I don't live in Egypt but i visit my fiancee and his family every once in a while there.. It's not easy being a vegetarian in a meatlovers country! hahaha! Thank God there are dishes like Koshari, fool and tamaya! And yummie I adore those hahaha.. Good luck with your search for none meat containing dishes... If you discover more let us/me know ha!? :-)))
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