Egyptian Fava Beans

Ingredients

• dry small fava beans (broad beans or pink beans)
  4 unit
• split red lentils

  washed, rinsed, and cleaned (optional)
  ½ cup
• ripe tomatoes

  chopped (optional)
  1-2 unit
• Onion

  chopped (optional)
  1 unit
• garlic

  crushed (optional)
  4 cloves
• ground coriander (optional)
  ½ tsp
• cumin
  1 tsp
• lemon juice
  ¼ cup
• olive oil
  ¼ cup
• salt and pepper

  to taste
  1 unit
• ground cayenne pepper or red pepper

  to taste
  1 unit
• fresh cilantro

  parsley, or mint leaves, chopped
  1 unit
• bunch green onions (white part and some of the green part)

  chopped
  1 unit
• hard-boiled eggs
  4 unit