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dukkah

The word means to pound, which is a name describing the method rather than the result.

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Cultural layer

Origin

Egypt; duqqa, a coarse blend of toasted nuts, sesame, coriander and cumin, pounded rather than ground so it stays rubbly

Routes

An Egyptian street and household mix eaten with bread and oil; carried into Australian and British restaurant cooking from the 1990s, usually without the bread-and-oil ritual that gave it its form

Context

Dukkah is built to be dipped into: bread, then oil, then the dry mix, in that order, standing up, from a shared bowl. Its texture exists because it is picked up by a wet piece of bread. Sprinkled over a plated dish as a garnish it still tastes of itself, but the reason it is coarse instead of fine has been discarded. The word means to pound, which is a name describing the method rather than the result.

Route

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