Ful Medames with Egg & Whole-Wheat Pita
Ful medames with a boiled egg and whole-wheat pita is a savoury bean breakfast with 26 g of protein and 14 g of fibre in 490 calories.
Ful medames with a boiled egg and whole-wheat pita is a savoury bean breakfast with 26 g of protein and 14 g of fibre in 490 calories.
Watch the 25-second version
Fourteen grams of fibre before the working day starts, from beans instead of bread.
Transcript & sources → All videosMr. Age is AgeGen's editorial character. Facts come from the protocol above.
Egyptian-style stewed fava beans with lemon, garlic and cumin, topped with a boiled egg and served with whole-wheat pita — a breakfast built on legumes rather than grain.
Ingredients (1 serving)
- Cooked fava beans — 200 g
- Egg — 1 (50 g)
- Whole-wheat pita — 40 g
- Olive oil — 10 ml
- Lemon juice — 15 ml
- Garlic — 1 clove
- Ground cumin — 1 tsp
- Tomato, diced — 60 g
- Parsley — 10 g
Macros per serving
- Calories: 490 kcal
- Protein: 26 g
- Fat: 16 g
- Carbs: 63 g
- Fiber: 14 g
Key micronutrients
- Fiber — 14 g
- Folate — ~240 µg
- Iron — ~5 mg
Why it earns a spot in the rotation
- 14 g of fibre at breakfast, most of it from the beans rather than the bread.
- 26 g of protein from two sources — fava beans and an egg.
- ~240 µg of folate and ~5 mg of iron in one plate.
- Savoury and grain-light: the pita is a 40 g side, not the base.
Sources
AgeGen recipes are sourced from the USDA FoodData Central database. Macros are calculated per the ingredient panel; round to the gram.
