Breakfast food in the Eastern Mediterranean

Breakfast food in the Arabic Mediterranean can be as basic as flat bread and white cheese, as nutritious as an Egyptian fava bean casserole, or as colorful as a Turkish breakfast buffet. It's your call.

Traditional Mediterranean Arabic breakfast food is healthy by definition. Consider hummus with pita bread.

Or the very popular Lebanese manoushe, the breakfast pizza-like pastry topped with feta cheese, thyme and sesame seeds, drizzled with olive oil, and eaten with olives.

So, here there are some specific Mediterranean diet breakfast ideas.

A complete healthy breakfast

Here's some delicious breakfast food eaten in most Arabic Eastern Mediterranean countries. Now, you can find the basic ingredients wherever you live in the world.

• Fresh loaves of khubuz or Arabic bread, meaning pita or any other flat bread


• Feta or white cheese made from goat milk or ewe's milk


• A bowl of olives, black and green


• Labneh, a cream cheese-like strained yogurt


• Extra virgin live oil for drizzling


• Cucumber slices and tomato wedges


• Sweet tea or Arabic coffee depending on the country or personal preferences

Traditionally, such breakfast food isn't eaten with spoon, fork or knife, but you use pieces of bread to scoop up the white cheese and the labneh.

Anyway, if you prefer to spread the cheese on your pita bread, go ahead and use a knife, of course!

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