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The dish's story
A four-story downtown Cairo landmark that grew from a street cart founded by Youssef Zaki (Abou Tarek) in 1950, serving koshari as its sole dish and named among TasteAtlas's 100 most legendary restaurants in the world.
📋 Smithsonian Magazine🍴 Traditional Egyptian spice-mix recipe — Koshary Abou Tarek
📋 recipe source: The Mediterranean DishMore in Cairo
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Ingredients
- • hazelnuts or almonds 1/2 cup
- • sesame seeds 3 tbsp
- • coriander seeds 2 tbsp
- • cumin seeds 1 tbsp
- • dried thyme 1 tsp
- • sea salt 1/2 tsp
- • extra virgin olive oil 1/4 cup
- • baladi or pita bread to serve
Method
- 1 Toast nuts and seeds separately until fragrant.
- 2 Grind coriander and cumin, then pulse everything to a coarse crumble.
- 3 Serve duqqa in a bowl with olive oil alongside; dip torn bread first in oil, then in the spice mix.