Bedouin Food

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The ingredients used in traditional Bedouin food are simple and based on raw materials found naturally in the Sinai. Always fresh, always delicious, and rarely kept for another day, Bedouin food is also usually very healthy.

For breakfast you may have sweet fattah; cooked and sweetened milk and bread. For lunch there will be rice cooked with fish, vegetables or occasionally meat. The meal is served on one big tray, each eating with their hands from their corner. This may require some practice but a traditionally prepared and served Bedouin meal is a point of gathering and a wonderfully social event.

Famous for the Bedouin is also their deliciously thin bread cooked on a vault metal tray over open fire and the thicker bread cooked in the ground on embers. This bread is sometimes called 'sunbread'.

Along with the food comes unsweetened coffee brewed in traditional pots. According to the Bedouin etiquette, the coffee should be served standing, pouring the tea with the left hand and serving the guests with the right. The coffee is followed by lots of sweet tea, sometimes mixed with herbs, and served in small glasses. The amount of sugar used has even inspired to the making of a movie; ‘A Bedouin Nightmare’ about a Bedouin village in the Sinai running out of sugar!