Talk:Fuul/@comment-62.24.101.214-20100518103826

They're usually Fava Beans (or "broad beans") I've been told, though in Sudan there seem to be a number of different grades of the bean, that are sold at different prices. I don't know what the differences are.

In Kenya, I bought a bag of "mixed beans" and tried this recipe, and it came out pretty good: it's really the sesame oil and tomato/onion/jibna/shotta (there's no 'r' on the end of that) that makes it taste like Sudanese fuul.

For example, I ate mine with just chopped tomatoes, and it tasted like something I would have had in Khartoum or Port Sudan. You could do it with just chopped onions, or just one of any of the ingredients that I listed, and still have a good Sudanese fuul experience.

On the streets in Khartoum circa 2004-2006, the normal way you would get it is the beans with some of the sesame oil (zeit sim-sim), and maybe a dab of chopped tomatoes & onions; then you could buy a little bag of feta cheese to pour over it yourself. The shotta (chili) you could ask for. - it was made from reconstituted chili powder, often with a lemon or two floating in it.

Lovely stuff! I could eat it just about every day. I substituted burritoes for it when I lived in California, but it wasn't quite the same.