# The most popular Egyptian dishes

The best-loved dishes of Egyptian cuisine, from koshari to molokhia, as listed in CNN Arabic's guide, Wikipedia and lists of popular Egyptian food.

- 21 votes · 14 items
- Jul 31, 2022 · Mariam Mansour
- https://even.best/en/l/196/the-most-popular-egyptian-dishes

## Top 12

1. **Koshari** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Rice, pasta and black lentils with fried onions, tomato sauce, garlic vinegar and chilli; the cheapest and most famous national dish.
2. **Ful medames** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Slow-cooked fava beans of Pharaonic origin, served with oil, lemon and cumin with baladi bread.
3. **Molokhia** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Chopped jute mallow leaves cooked in chicken or rabbit broth with fried garlic and coriander.
4. **Mahshi** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Vine leaves, cabbage, courgettes and aubergines stuffed with rice and herbs.
5. **Mesaka'a** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fried aubergine with tomato sauce and peppers, sometimes with minced meat.
6. **Stuffed pigeon** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Pigeon stuffed with freekeh or rice and roasted, a feast dish.
7. **Alexandrian liver** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sliced liver fried with hot peppers and garlic, in sandwiches.
8. **Fattah** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Toasted bread, rice and meat with garlic-vinegar sauce, the Eid al-Adha dish.
9. **Hawawshi** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Baladi bread stuffed with spiced minced meat and baked.
10. **Feseekh** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Salted fermented mullet eaten at Sham el-Nessim.
11. **Om Ali** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Baked pastry pudding with milk and nuts.
12. **Insight** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A popular Egyptian dish made of crushed fava beans, dried molokhiya, and herbs, served with fried onions.
13. **Pasta with bechamel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Oven baked pasta with minced meat and béchamel sauce, one of the most famous Azomat dishes in Egypt.
14. **Ta'ameya** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Fried patties of crushed fava beans and herbs, falafel the Egyptian way.

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