3 very popular Sudanese dishes you should taste

Just like the country’s tradition and culture, Sudan’s dishes show great African and Arab influences.

As a traveller, most of the meals you will come across in this peculiar African country has huge Arab influence.

Sudanese dishes always contain a lot of pepper and spices with a variety of stew and soup that goes with porridge or bread.

These are 3 very popular Sudanese dishes:

1. Moukhbaza:

Moukhbaza is a meal made using banana paste and topped with chilli peppers.

2. Ful medames:

Ful is made of cooked fava beans and it is typically served with vegetable oil and chopped parsley, garlic, onion, lemon juice, chilli pepper, herbs and other spices.

Ful is also a common staple food in Egypt as well as a part of the cuisine of many Arab, Middle Eastern and African cultures.

3. Salaat Zabidi:

This popular meal is a yoghurt salad. It is made from a mixture of different vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, spinach, and cucumbers.

The vegetables are diced into small pieces and then poured into yoghurt.

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