Fasting and fast-breaking
What is eaten during a fast, and the meal that ends it.
SharbatVeganشربت
🇮🇷 Iran and 5 moreSweet fruit or flower drink, served chilled or as a syrup
Drink, Snacks
Ful medamesVeganفول مدمس
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 moreStew of slow-cooked fava beans with olive oil and spices, a staple across Egypt
Main dish, Breakfast
ShiroVegan
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 1 moreChickpea or broad bean stew, a staple in Ethiopian and Eritrean meals
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
Panta bhatVegan
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreCooked rice soaked overnight in water and eaten cold, often with salt and onion
Main dish, Breakfast
KolakVegan
🇮🇩 IndonesiaIndonesian dessert of fruit simmered in coconut milk and palm sugar
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
ZacuscăVegan
🇷🇴 Romania and 3 moreRoasted eggplant and pepper spread from Romania, eaten on bread
Sauce, pickle or ferment, Breakfast, Snacks
Gigantes plakiVeganγίγαντες πλακί
🇬🇷 GreeceBaked giant beans in olive oil and tomato sauce from Greece
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Shiro: Temesgen Woldezion; edited by Merhawie Woldezion, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Ful medames: Habib M'henni, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sharbat: fa:User:دانقولا, Public domain, source
- Panta bhat: TAPAS KUMAR HALDER, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kolak: Nurhafizah at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zacuscă: No machine-readable author provided. Bogdan assumed (based on copyrigh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gigantes plaki: Hevesli, Public domain, source