Broad Bean & Dill Pilaf

The Persians, arguably the masters of rice in the Middle East, have a beautiful dish called baghali polo, which is basmati rice cooked with broad (fava) beans, fresh dill and fragrant spices like saffron and cardamom. A similar dish called fuleya (meaning “made from ful” or broad beans/fava beans) appears in Port Said. Egyptian cuisine is famous for its love of ful, which are cooked in so many ways around the country but rarely together with rice. Fuleya i