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Koshari (Kushari) Street Food | Alexandria Street Food

After finishing our Alexandria tour, we were heading down to our hotel in Giza. We were all hungry and the tour guide gave us options to go to a restaurant, which would kill another 45 minutes, or grab some street food on our way and keep driving.

Everyone chose to try street food without wasting time and there were a few Egyptian foods to choose from. Our tour guide recommended Koshari, also known as Egypt’s national food, and everyone seemed to agree.

This is a very popular food in Egypt. Wherever Egyptians go, they will eat Koshari. Guests are visiting? They will be offered Koshari. Every week Egyptians will eat Koshari at least 3-4 times.

Koshari is made of rice, macaroni or spaghetti or paste, lentils, chickpeas, spicy tomato sauce, beans, and vinegar sauce. Depending on where in Egypt you buy it from, there can be variations in ingredients, but it’s always got the same great taste.

I liked Koshari right away, but it was spicy. It’s a vegetarian dish, but so delicious that you won’t miss the meat. The one I ate had pasta in it. It felt like I was eating pasta, or chickpeas, or something else.

Koshari is savory, has satisfying depth and texture, and is out-of-this-world tasty. The taste was incredible and the memory of eating it while we were driving through rural Egypt was unforgettable.

Next day I will start the actual Egypt tour, starting with the Pyramids.

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