Breakfast & suhoor

Ful medames with eggs and pitta

  • Breakfast & suhoor
  • Arab & Levantine
  • 15 min hands-on
  • Vegetarian
  • Halal

Ingredients

One standard portion

  • 25g liquid egg whites, scrambled
  • 1 wholemeal pitta
  • 5g olive oil (1 tsp)
  • 120g cooked fava beans (ful)
  • 2 eggs, boiled
  • 40g tomatoes
  • 5g parsley, cumin and lemon

Season as the method describes. Spices, salt, lemon and water aren’t weighed or counted below.

Per portion

Calories
506kcal
Protein
31g
Carbs
59g
Fat
16g

Added up from each ingredient’s typical values per 100g. A standard portion is this meal’s share of a 2,000 kcal day.

Method

  1. Warm the beans and mash half of them with cumin, garlic and lemon.

  2. Finish with the olive oil, tomato and parsley.

  3. Serve with the eggs and warm pitta.

In a plan

This is one of the dishes our plans cook from, and plans serve it for breakfast, or for suhoor in Ramadan. There, the liquid egg whites, scrambled, wholemeal pitta and olive oil are weighed out to your own numbers; everything else stays as written.

General guidance, not medical advice. Please check with your doctor if you have a medical condition, are pregnant, or are new to exercise. Check every ingredient against your own allergies.