Egyptian Fool (fava Beans) Traditional Breakfast

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 (16 ounce) can fava beans (you can find at any middle eastern store, maybe even like a trader joe's or organic store)
• 1 small lemon, juice of, only
• 3 tablespoons canola oil (or any oil you prefer)
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 onion (small size and chopped- optional, if you don't want to use just skip step number 1)
• pita bread

Recipe

• 1 chop up a small onion with a bit of oil and sauté in small pot until tender, remove from heat.
• 2 open can of fava beans and dump into pot, along with juices, do not drain.
• 3 take a potato smasher and smash up the fava beans. i leave a few whole, but basically smash up most of them.
• 4 add salt, ground cumin and cayenne pepper to your liking.
• 5 squeeze juice of lemon into pot.
• 6 add a splash of olive oil.
• 7 heat just to boil and then that's it.
• 8 spoon some beans into a flat bowl, splash some oil on top of them. i like to add the following garnish, but you can leave garnish out and just eat that way they are just as yummy too.
• 9 this is something i do sometimes to this dish as well-my special garnish. 1. chop a few slices of red onion fine. 2. chop a small (or half) green bell pepper finely. 3. chop a handful of black olive slices finely. 4. chop a small tomato finely. 5. a little bit of chopped parsley 6. drizzle of tahina.
• 10 okay now you add all these finely chopped veggies around the bowl edge and finish off with a drizzle of tahina in middle of bowl. looks beautiful! then i mix all together and eat it mixed up!