How to pronounce Kebda iskandarani

Kebda iskandarani is written كبدة إسكندراني where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈkebdɑ ʔeskendeˈɾɑːni/. In plain English letters that is KEB-da es-ken-de-RAH-nee, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Kebda iskandarani?

Kebda iskandarani is a street food of Egypt. Where it comes from: Alexandria. People usually eat it as a snack and late at night. Its main ingredients are offal and wheat & flour. It tastes spicy and savory.

Where Kebda iskandarani comes from

Kebda iskandarani is one of 24 signature dishes of Egypt on this map.

• Koshary كشري · Street food · Cairo

  Koshary is Cairo's working lunch: rice, brown lentils and short macaroni, topped with chickpeas, a garlicky tomato sauce, a splash of garlic vinegar and plenty of crisp fried onions.

• Ful medames فول مدمس · Main dish · Egypt

  Ful medames is fava beans cooked very slowly, traditionally buried overnight in the embers of the public bath furnaces in big copper pots, then mashed lightly with olive oil, cumin, lemon and garlic.

• Molokhia ملوخية · Soup & stew · Nile Valley

  Molokhia is a green soup made from the leaves of the jute mallow plant, chopped very finely with a two-handled curved knife and cooked briefly in chicken or rabbit stock.

• Ta'ameya طعمية · Street food · Egypt

  Ta'ameya is what most Egyptians call falafel, the deep-fried fritter that English sources describe as being of Egyptian origin before it became a fixture of Middle Eastern and especially Levantine cooking.

• Hawawshi حواوشي · Street food · Egypt

  Hawawshi is a traditional Egyptian dish of flatbread stuffed with minced meat spiced with onions, pepper, parsley and sometimes chillies.

• Om Ali أم علي · Dessert · Egypt

  Om Ali, Ali's mother, is a traditional Egyptian dessert often described as the national dessert of Egypt.

Food of Egypt

Dishes like Kebda iskandarani in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Kebda iskandarani:

• Jerusalem mixed grill מעורב ירושלמי · Street food · Jerusalem, Israel

  Me'orav Yerushalmi, "Jerusalem mix", is chicken hearts, livers and spleen, often with bits of breast meat, fried quickly on a hot griddle with onions and spices such as cumin, turmeric and black pepper.

• Morzello morzeddhu · Street food · Catanzaro, Italy

  Morzello, morzeddhu in dialect, is a stew of beef tripe and offal from Catanzaro, cooked with tomatoes, chilli, bay leaf and oregano, and served inside a hollowed ring-shaped loaf of local bread called pitta.

• Kokoreç · Street food · Istanbul and İzmir, Türkiye

  Kokoreç is lamb intestines wrapped tightly around seasoned offal, such as sweetbreads, hearts and lungs, roasted on a long horizontal spit over charcoal, then chopped on a griddle with tomatoes, peppers, oregano and chilli flakes, and served in half a loaf of bread.

• Mustamakkara · Street food · Tampere (Pirkanmaa), Finland

  Mustamakkara, "black sausage", is a blood sausage known as the home food of Tampere.