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Aish Baladi

Egypt

What we know so far

Aish baladi is Egypt's daily bread, and the word aish means life: a round of coarse wholewheat dough, risen from a sponge, flattened, dusted with bran and slapped into a fierce oven for a few minutes until it balloons into a pocket. It is sold warm from bakery windows and bicycle racks by the dozen, subsidised by the state, and it is the plate, the spoon and the wrap for ful, ta'ameya, tahina and everything else on the Egyptian table. The wholewheat and the bran are what make it baladi (of the country) rather than the white shami pita.

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 6 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

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Waiting for a cook

Aish Baladi

Egypt

What we know so far

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 6 ingredients and 6 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

See every dish waiting