I have read and researched many recipes recently for Middle Eastern ‘foul mudammas’ dishes and ‘fattet homous’ dishes.
Foul is a dish typically made with cooked fava beans (dried broad beans), in a sauce of lemon juice, olive oil, garlic and cumin, often then topped with chopped tomatoes, onion and parsley. The joy is in the gorgeous sauce 🙂
Fattet is sometimes described as a ‘deconstructed homous’; the dish is literally made up of homous ingredients, cooked chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, all mixed together, heated, and spooned over crispy toasted pieces of Arabic bread, and often topped with chopped parsley and pine nuts. And it is GOOD!!! Eaten warm it is glorious moreish comfort food, often eaten for breakfast, but fabulous at any time.
I’m sure you will see both feature on here very soon…this dish therefore was borne of a bit of both..
The bowl above includes cooked split fava beans (I soaked and cooked these myself in my little pressure cooker and I find that the peeled and split beans work best for me) mixed with tahini, lemon juice, garlic, cumin, chopped tomatoes and parsley; I just put the bits together and let it take shape and then ate it cold on its own and alongside other elements.
I then threw in some of my leftover Moroccan inspired paste and gave it a new dimension..
And it worked very very well!! So much flavour, layers and layers of it..a whole new piece of paradise on my plate!
Apologies for the lack of detailed recipe but hopefully this still shares some ideas and inspiration and might make you chuck a few different things together this weekend?
And finally I am joining Fiesta Friday this weekend, for the first time in weeks! Where did that time go?? Come and join the party, is week co hosted by the lovely Judi and Stef and feast your eyes on the wonderful dishes that everyone makes..happy weekend!
See you tomorrow with some sweet potato onion bhaji breads…:)
Cool…really love the look of this dish…hearing about it for the first time☺
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Thank you so much 🙂
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It looks delicious and the colours are so vibrant! Happy weekend to you too! 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 xx
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These all look and sound amazing! I ate a lot of foul when I visited Jordan a few years ago but fattet is new to me 🙂
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It’s amazing! I highly recommend you try it at a decent middle eastern restaurant 🙂
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Fava bean, tahini it all sounds so delectable. Yum! I like your presentation, the carrot sticks too! 🙂
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Thank you so much, lovely Fae, I hope you’re well xx
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Yay! Nice to have you back here at Fiesta Friday! And everything here looks absolutely scrumptious! Happy FF and I hope you have a wonderful weekend! xx
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Thank you honey, and you xx
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I would like the version with your paste added to it – I like a recipe with different elements that contribute to great flavor. Thanks for sharing with Fiesta Friday 🙂
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I’ll send some over 🙂 🙂 thank you – enjoy co hosting xx
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It both sounds and looks wonderful and delicious Elaine. The Moroccan paste sounds great just saved the recipe,
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Lovely, thank you so much xx
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The dish sounds delicious and comforting Elaine!
I look forward to the 2 dishes that you mentioned!!
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Thank you xx
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Love this yumm. has all of my favorites for sure! As always wonderful Elaine and gorgeous pictures!
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Thank you so much, lovely Lynn xxx
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most welcome yumm! xxx
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I’ve never used fava beans before, but this dip looks delicious. The moroccan paste recipe looks great too!
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Thank you, let me know if you try it 🙂
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Oh yummy this sounds so good. My mouth is watering just reading about it, I love this combination of flavours!!! Thanks for bringing this to Fiesta Friday. xx
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Thank you so much, and thank you for co hosting, I hope you’re enjoying the party xx
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It is great I have been inspired by so many things 🙂
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Wonderful 🙂
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wow wow wow. this all looks so good and so delicious!
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Thank you thank you thank you xxx
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Waw! It all looks just fabulous! xxx
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🙂 xx
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What an interesting dip. Sounds good! 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Happy belated Fiesta Friday I’m sure your fava bean and tahini dip was a huge hit! xx
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Thank you honey xx (I think you’re biased!!)
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Great to see you at FF again! I missed a couple and it was terrible, the week just wasn’t the same 🙂
I am not sure why I am reading your blog before dinner, I really want some now! I love snacks and this dip looks so very edible! I need to go and cook dinner! Delicious! 🙂
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Ha ha! I hope you’ve now enjoyed some dinner xxx
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I did but there would still be room for some dip! 🙂
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🙂 x
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The dip queen strikes again! I have this plan of printing all your dip recipes and bind them into a booklet. I seem to always fall into my usual boring dips. I need to expand 🙂
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How cool would that be?? Thank you xx
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