Chopped Arabic Salad

Chopped Arabic Salad: This salad is wonderfully refreshing even without purslane, but if you can find the green at your produce market, it's worth...

Muhammara

Muhammara with spiced bread Ingredients 1/4 cup (60ml) olive oil 3 red capsicums 2 garlic cloves, chopped 1/2 cup (50g) walnuts 1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses (see note) 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2...

Iraqi Fish: Maskoof

Ingredients 1 1/2 kg white fish, for grilling, cleaned 4 cloves garlic, chopped 1/4 cups vinegar 1 teaspoon curry olive oil salt Sauce: 2 onions, finely chopped 2 tomatoes, diced 1 parsley, finely chopped 4...

Baked Garlic Chicken and Potatoes

“Toum, zait w haamid” is a phrase that one would tend to overhear repeatedly from mom while giving cooking advice to friends. In Arabic,...

Fasolia bi Zait

Fasolia is a variety of red beans or pinto beans that you can commonly find in supermarkets. For this recipe pick the beans with...

Basboosa

"This is a traditional Middle Eastern dessert made of semolina flour, yogurt, and coconut. To adjust the sweetness, you can half or double the...

Lamb Gheimeh

Ingredients 1 tablespoon butter 800 g lamb, shank 2 medium onion or 300 g, chopped 3 medium tomatoes or 300 g, chopped and skinned 6 cloves garlic, crushed 1 large...

Low Fat Mohallabiah

Ingredients 2 tins nestlé fat free sweetened condensed milk or 405 g 5½ cups water or 1375 ml ¾ cup rice powder or 105 g 1½ teaspoon vanilla...

Bint Al Sahn

Bint al Sahn is probably my absolute favorite Yemeni dish (along with shai haleeb). It is often translated as honey cake into English, but...

Arabic Samosa

Arabic Samosa with a different flavor Ingredients: 2 kgr chopped spinach 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon salt 6 tablespoons powder milk 1 teaspoon sumac 1/2 teaspoon pomegranate sauce Frying oil ½ cup olive oil ½...