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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Jane Jeffes and Taysir Ghazi for Recipes for Ramadan

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Recipes for ramadan taysir ghazi s ful medames four ways - The Untold Story

A dish of ful medames (Egyptian stewed fava beans) surrounded by bowls containing chopped cucumber, chopped tomatoes, crushed garlic, sauteed onions, plus lemon halves.
Taysir Ghazir: ‘Ful medames is a quintessential Egyptian street food and a comfort food … in Ramadan it is eaten at suhoor, the meal before the dawn prayer which has to sustain us throughout the fasting day.’ Photograph: Recipes for Ramadan

Recipes for Ramadan started in response to the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. It shares recipes and family stories reaching back into the history of Australian Muslim families, to share the sort of conversations you might have if you were invited to iftar.

These recipes and stories celebrate diverse cultures and heritage and dip into complex histories which inevitably feed into our shared Australian story.

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