Foul and Tameez

If you wish to have delicious, healthy and simple breakfast, then ‘Foul (pronounced as ‘fool’) and Tameez’ is an excellent choice. Moreover, it’s cheap and easily accessible in Saudi Arabia. You pay one riyal for foul, and another one riyal for tameez (the big hot crispy Afghani flatbread).

Foul is often eaten for breakfast, and is sold by street vendors. It is nicknamed as ‘poor man’s breakfast’, but even the rich like it because it’s so appetizing and a wholesome meal that fills one’s stomach.

Foul is a traditional bean stew, which is popular throughout the Arab world. The basic recipe is foul (aka ‘fava beans or broad beans’) that’s cooked until tender, then mashed and mixed with olive oil and seasonings, usually lemon juice and cumin.

Perhaps, rich masses find ‘foul and tameez’ all yummy, in a unique style and preparation, with olive oil, lemon juice, and chopped coriander or any extra ingredients on the top. When nothing gets ready, at homes on time, for breakfast, then having a flavorsome and healthy ‘foul and tameez’ from a street vendor is an ideal deal…as you get a satisfying meal without troubling your wife.

Oftentimes, people enjoy eating ‘foul and tameez’ at their workplaces…all gathered in their company cafeterias, with a hue of mixed nationalities and cultures. What a goodness where everyone scooping up foul, with crispy pieces of tameez along with morning ‘cordial and freaky gossips’.

However, foul and tameez, being cheap, is often the breakfast of hard laborers who start their day with this delightful meal. Ugh…what a slim, tender sandwich can fill their appetite. For them, this morning breakfast will suffice to boost their stamina the whole day, and opting ‘foul and tameez’ again for dinner is both money-saving and enjoyable to them.