Mfarakeh

Mfarakeh, also spelled mofarakah or mufaraqah and known as batata wa bayd, meaning potatoes and eggs, is a simple Arab dish made from potato and egg cooked in ghee and seasoned with cumin, salt and pepper, with chopped fresh coriander scattered on top. It can be eaten at breakfast, lunch or dinner, usually with Arabic bread and Arabic tea, and is traditionally served as one of the small plates of a mezze across the Arab world, most of all in the Levant, meaning Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan. The name comes from an Arabic verb meaning to rub or crumble and describes the way the egg breaks into crumbs around the potato. The ingredients may be cooked together in the pan like an omelette or cooked separately and served as a salad, and cooks add spices such as sumac, za'atar or seven-spice. A related dish, mfaraket koosa, uses zucchini in place of potato.