 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosel here with another cooking video. Today we're going to be doing the Ethiopian equivalent roughly of Foul Mad Amis and it's called Shahan Foul. This is different than Foul Mad Amis the favorite breakfast of the Arabic world but especially Egypt because of the addition of Barbara which is the addition delicious spicy spice blend that's popular in Ethiopia and other cuisines in that part of Africa. So here we go. What I'm not showing in this video is the actual process of cooking the Foul. I give it like soak for 10-12 hours and cook it for 60 sometimes even 90 minutes. Nothing drives me crazy more than undercooked beans so you want to make sure those fava beans get really nicely cooked and the older they are the longer they take to cook and sometimes you just need to get new beans because they've been sitting on the shelf for too long. Alright first step here is to finally chop up a white onion. This is going to give us the kind of caramelized base. So I did seven minutes saute and usually I use vegetable oil but because this is a fava bean goes really really well with olive oil. So I came in with two tablespoons and then got sick of measuring stuff because who's got time for that and just kind of put a bit more in using my eyes some extra for the pan that's always a great to justify it. Alright then we want to get our onions into the pan and you know cook them around a bit. Seven minutes isn't exact but what I did was about five minutes for the onions and then another two for the tomato and the berbere to get everything nicely cooked but you can play around with those measurements. So after getting the onion then you want to put in the one medium tomato. You can substitute with tomato paste if you have it on hand. It shouldn't change the flavor too much. I always add a little bit of salt while the onions are cooking just to keep the frying process going. You can see the colors are coming along nicely the onion is cooking and this is what I'm going to come in with my berbere. I buy this in my local African Ethiopian store. It can be hard to find so you might need to go on Amazon but that's what will give this dish its special taste. Now I use one tablespoon if you like it spicy use two. One is safer if you're cooking for a bunch of people some who love spicy food some less. So then I put in my cooked fava beans. I actually did these in the instant pot as well and then just drain them off. I actually ended up putting three in this recipe so there's a little bit more going to be the pots going to fill up a bit more. Then you want to add a little bit of cup of water. The idea here is that after adding the beans and the caramelized onions a bit of water you want to kind of let it stew for another seven minutes approximately. You can put it on to cover but obviously if you leave the lid off you're going to get more of a reduction. This process can take sometimes I just do it by eye when the fava bean is starting to mush up a bit that's when I kind of take it off. So this is my technique I think lots of people do it as I stir the ingredients I also kind of like mush them down with the with the kitchen spoon. Now if you want to get this homogenous you could just throw this at this point into a blender. Personally I prefer it like this. So here's the final product you can see I've got some it's got beans this is absolutely delicious. Ful never looks like the most attractive food in the world but it keeps you full forever. It's very good for you and with the addition of the berbere and the caramelized onions this dish is actually super tasty because these beans were kind of old as I mentioned I did a little bit of extra mushing just to get them down to my preferred consistency but to each their own you can throw in a bit more olive oil and cumin if you want to really add in some more extra flavors but it's not necessary. Then just serve some bread of course in general it's traditional but we had this white bread on hand and that is it guys this is how to make Ethiopian style fava beans. Amazing food for breakfast lunch or just any time you're looking for a really really hearty filling snack. Thank you guys for watching this video I want to get more on various subjects to consider subscribing to this YouTube channel.