Sudanese Peanut Butter Salad

Salatet Dakwa

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Egypt: Recipes and stories from an ancient land

By Suzanne Zeidy and Rawah Badrawi

Published 2026

  • About

This Dakiva salad and the trio of chilli sauces that follow are classic Sudanese recipes shared by Sudanese-Egyptian couple Amin Gabbani and Reem Heakal, who spent decades moving between Khartoum and Cairo. Their home was always open to family and friends, where dishes like this peanut-based salatet dakwa showcased the rich flavour of local peanuts. Known in Egypt as ful Sudani (Sudanese beans), peanuts are prized ingredients in both Su