DISH RESEARCH · Breakfast
Foul Tamees
Seasoned fava beans with homemade sesame-and-nigella flatbread.
About Foul Tamees
Foul and tamees pairs seasoned fava beans with a broad flatbread. Amal’s recipe supplies both components, following the breakfast pairing described by Saudipedia as popular across Saudi Arabia and on some Ramadan tables.
Onion, garlic, tomato and cumin season the beans, with black pepper and parsley adding their own notes. The bread carries sesame and nigella seeds, while a little sugar enriches its dough.
The bread has a patterned surface beneath its seed topping. It is presented directly alongside the beans, keeping the soft bread and the tomato-rich bean mixture as distinct parts of the meal.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Sesame.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Foul Tamees
Amal’s foul and sesame-nigella tamees.
- FlourBaseIngredient page not linked
- YeastBinder
- SaltSeasoning
- SugarSweetener
- WaterLiquid
- Nigella seedsTopping
- Sesame seedsTopping
- Olive oilCooking medium
- OnionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- Prepared fava beansBase
- Canned peeled tomatoesBase
- Black pepperSeasoning
- Ground cuminSeasoning
- ParsleyGarnish
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual generic طحين23 cereal unprovided; independent family-level wheat description not ingredient proof for this exact formula.
- Yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Yeast type/carrier unprovided.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Bread and bean seasoning consolidated; according-to-taste is amount, not omission instruction.
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual warm bread dough water27; no final serving-temperature inference.
- Nigella seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Sesame seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Sesame source-confirmed
- Olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Beans31/55 and method-only bread-pan spreading48 consolidated.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Prepared fava beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual can of foul medames34, broader fava candidate; full prepared bean product formula unprovided.
- Canned peeled tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader tomato candidate for actual peeled cut canned tomato35; no exact canned formula inferred, product formula unspecified.
- Black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Ground cumin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Saudi Arabia
- Saudi ArabiaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Saudi Cuisine
- Hejazi CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.