Fried · Bakery Snack

Sfinz

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A favourite Libyan breakfast version, sfinz bil adam, has an egg cracked onto the dough as it fries, so it comes out as fried bread and fried egg in one.

Sfinz is a simple yeasted dough, deep-fried until golden and puffed, sold hot from bakeries and street stalls in neighborhoods like Al Dahra and the Old Medina. It's often eaten plain or dusted with sugar as a quick snack any time of day.

Why it's made this way: Fried dough is a fast, low-cost item for bakeries to turn out in volume, and sfinz became a fixture of Tripoli's street-stall bakery scene alongside khubz flatbread and lamb skewers.