Food of Sudan
Sudanese food is built on sorghum, millet, beans, peanuts and meat, cooked with onions, tomato and dried okra. Fermented breads like kisra accompany stews, ful is a beloved breakfast, and sesame oil, dates and hibiscus are everyday ingredients.
- Main dishes (6)
- Breakfast (2)
- Street food (2)
- Soups (1)
- Salads (2)
- Breads (1)
- Desserts and sweets (3)
- Drinks (4)
- Fruits and produce (6)
Staples
- sorghum
- millet
- peanuts
- beans
- okra
- lamb
- peanut butter
Signature flavors
- sesame oil
- cumin
- chili
- dried okra
- tamarind
- hibiscus
Main dishes
Stewed fava beans with oil, onion and cheese.
Key ingredients: fava beans, oil, cheeseFull guide →
Thin fermented bread with meat or okra stew.
Key ingredients: sorghum, lamb, okraFull guide →Meat or dried okra stew served over aseeda.
Key ingredients: lamb, dried okra, onionFried meat cubes with onion and peppers.
Key ingredients: lamb, onion, peppers
Thick sorghum or wheat porridge served with stew.
Key ingredients: sorghum, wheat, ghee
Nile fish fried or grilled with lemon.
Key ingredients: nile perch, lemon, cuminBreakfast
Beans with sesame oil and feta.
Key ingredients: fava beans, sesame oil, fetaThick pan bread eaten with tea.
Key ingredients: flour, oilStreet food
Sudanese falafel with fava beans.
Key ingredients: fava beans, herbs
Skewered meat grilled over coals.
Key ingredients: lamb, spicesSoups
Lamb soup with vegetables.
Key ingredients: lamb, vegetablesSalads
Eggplant salad with peanuts.
Key ingredients: eggplant, peanutsCucumber yogurt salad.
Key ingredients: cucumber, yogurtBreads
Fermented sorghum flatbread.
Key ingredients: sorghumFull guide →Desserts and sweets
Semolina cake in syrup.
Key ingredients: semolinaFull guide →Sweet boiled chickpeas.
Key ingredients: chickpeas, sugar
Fried dough balls.
Key ingredients: flourFull guide →Drinks
Chilled hibiscus drink.
Key ingredients: hibiscus, sugar
Spiced coffee in a clay pot.
Key ingredients: coffee, ginger
Tamarind juice.
Key ingredients: tamarindThin sorghum sweet drink.
Key ingredients: sorghumFruits and produce
Northern dates.
Key ingredients: snacksFull guide →
Mangoes from Kassala.
Key ingredients: fresh
Native to the region.
Key ingredients: chilledFull guide →
Fragrant.
Key ingredients: fresh
Tart fruit pulp.
Key ingredients: drinks
Acacia gum used in drinks.
Key ingredients: drinksDish guides from Sudan
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Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Ful medames: Zachbe at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kisra maker: Mohamed Elfatih Hamadien, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- عصيدة-قطيفية: Mustafa Al-Elq, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Lates niloticus by DaijuAzuma: Daiju Azuma, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Falafels 2: Popo le Chien, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Şiş kebap and pilav: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bean soup with tomatoes and red peppers: Gillgaramond, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- A large mixed salad: Gatorfan252525, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Basboosa: stu_spivack, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sam'dan lokma tatlisi: elif ayse, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hibiscus tea: Emna Mizouni, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Latte and dark coffee: Bex Walton, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Tamarindus indica pods: B.navez, CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Dates005: Nepenthes, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mangos - single and halved: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Taiwan 2009 Tainan City Organic Farm Watermelon FRD 7962: Fred Hsu (Wikipedia:User:Fred Hsu on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Guava pink fruit: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Adansonia digitata Baobab: Yoky, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Acacia senegal - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-004: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
