Middle Eastern Recipes

Cookery : Recipes, regional : Middle East is part of the Cookery catalogue. It indexes Middle Eastern recipes (including Turkey and Northern Africa) on Everything2 according to type of dish. The country has been noted if the dish has a specific known origin, but most of these are eaten throughout the area.

This subnode of Regional Recipes is maintained by gn0sis

• Main Dishes
  • Chakchouka (vegetable stew, Moroccan)
  • couscous
  • Spiced Apricot Couscous
  • falafel (deep-fried chick pea balls)
    • How to prepare a cheap and easy Middle-Eastern meal at home (falafel plus various goodies for stuffing your pita)
  • Fondue Kebabs with Roasted Tomato Dip cooked with a fondue set, that is, no cheese involved!
  • Lahmacun ("Turkish pizza")
  • Lamb Tagine with Apricots (Moroccan)
  • manti (Turkish dumplings with meat)
  • Moroccan Spiced Fish with Peppers and Potatoes
  • meorav yerushalmi (Jerusalem mixed grill, Israeli)
  • shawarma (the Arabic name for döner kebap/gyros/...)
  • shish taouk (chicken in pita)
  
  See also: Hummus/Chips/Salat?
  
  
• Soups
  • lentil soup
  
  
• Salads
  • chick pea salad
  • Moroccan eggplant salad
  • Israeli salad (tomato and cucumber salad)
  • tabouleh (crushed wheat and parsley salad, Lebanese)
  
  
• Dips, Pastes and Sauces
  • baba ganoush (eggplant and tehina)
  • chermoula (herb marinade, Moroccan)
  • foule (mashed fava beans, Egyptian)
  • harissa (fiery chili sauce, Tunisian)
  • hummus (chickpeas and tehina)
  • lebneh (cheese/lemon spread, Lebanese)
  • tehina/tahini (sesame seed-based paste)
    • Tehina-Lemon Sauce
  • shinkleesh (goat cheese dip, Lebanese)
  • zhug (Yemenite spicy paste for bread)
  
  
• Other Side Dishes
  • eggplant rounds
    • fried eggplant rounds
    • grilled eggplant rounds
  • imam bayeldi (slow-cooked eggplant, Turkish)
  • Marinated Olives
  • smoked eggplant
  
  
• Bread
  • flatbread (see also pita)
  • jachnun (Yemenite bread, kinda)
  • malawach (more Yemenite bread, kinda)
  • pita (ubiquitous flatbread)
  
  
• Desserts
  • baklava (phyllo dough soaked in honey)
  
  
• Drinks
  • Atay B'nahna: Moroccan Mint Tea
  • Moroccan Tea with spearmint!
  
  See also: Egyptian Tea Ceremony
  
  
• See Also...
  • Cookery : Recipes, regional : Miscellaneous (for traditional Jewish food)
  • Ancient Egyptian Food and Drink
  • Lebanese food
  
  

Editor's Note: Many of the nodes above barely qualify as "recipes", since they list ingredients but not proportions -- more detailed writeups are welcome!

This subnode of Cookery : Recipes, regional is maintained by gn0sis

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