EPISODE 9 🌙👩🏻‍🍳 الحلقة التاسعة of Around the world in 15 plates with Shayma. 15 friends. 15 countries. 15 Ramadan dishes. Today my beautiful friends @hadeel and @maha and I made Molokheya which is considered one of the most iconic Egyptian home meals. It’s comforting, easy to make, and strongly tied to family, Fridays and Ramadan iftars. It’s basically made out of a green leafy plant called jute leaves in English. In Egypt, the leaves are usually finely chopped (but recently everyone’s been using the frozen packs because it’s much easier) and then cooked into a silky green stew. We serve it with either chicken, rabbit or meat. Our gorgeous @maha made a side dish called ‘the black salad’ from Aidan. which is a very famous Sudanese peanut-based salad/sauce that is rich, spicy, and deeply flavored. It’s thicker than a salad, almost like a peanut sauce or dip and you eat it with bread usually. Egypt and Sudan are neighbors and we have the uttermost love and respect for each other ...