Soup for Syria: feed your belly and your soul
Soup for Syria is a beautiful new cookbook of delicious and easy-to-make recipes guaranteed to fill your belly and feed your mind with heightened humanitarian awareness.
Recipe
Bake Traditional Emirati Khameer Bread
Khameer, a round flatbread of humble Beduin origins, once fell out of favor with the upscale eaters of the United Arab Emirates. But the tender round bread with its golden top is enjoying a comeback. We show you how to make it.
Turkish Winter Soup With Bulgur Gnocchi – A Vegetarian Recipe From Istanbul
Gnocchi or kofteh? I’d always thought of kofteh as meatballs of one kind or another. But in this recipe, I discovered that a dumpling may go by that name too. And how delicious the dumplings – gnocchi – or kofteh are. Based on bulgur and seasoned with spices and herbs, the little hand-rolled mouthfuls cook in […]
What’s in season in July, plus foraging guide and recipes
Experienced cooks know that vegetables that come into season together often cook up well together. A perfect example for July produce is tomatoes and eggplants. Both have been available throughout the spring and early summer, but it’s right now that you can find the baladi (heirloom) varieties. See our baba ganoush recipe with a baladi […]
Watermelon Rind Jam – Recipe
From Iraq with love, a great jam with a surprising ingredient.
The ultimate side dish: 8 ways to eat tahini
As earthy as tahini is (or as we say in the Middle East, techinah) the semi-solid paste brightens up with lemon, garlic, herbs and spices. It's great as a dip, but here are some new and surprising ways to eat tehini.
Moroccan stuffed potatoes are called mafroum
The most hearty and satisfying dish from Morocco that is budget friendly and delicious.
Honey Cookies for Rosh Hashannah
Celebrate a sweet new year with this Jewish recipe for honey cookies, eaten during Rosh Hashannah holidays.
Mechouia, Grilled Vegetable Salad from Tunisia
Tunisian flavors come together deliciously in a salad of charred, chopped vegetables.
Would you eat hummus ice-cream?
Has Israel crossed the lines by making hummus ice-cream?
Herbel, a Moroccan wheat soup which is like our porridge
Herbel is a wheat soup that dish reminds Moroccans of breakfasts during Aid El Fitr and Eid El Adha. A recipe that has probably crossed the centuries.
Syrian Stuffed Artichoke Hearts with Lamb
Fresh artichokes are all over Middle Eastern markets now. Lovers of the edible thistle enjoy scraping the steamed, seasoned leaves with their teeth and never mind getting melted butter or vinaigrette all over their fingers.
Stuffed Jerusalem sage recipe
marmia in Arab markets. To celebrate the emergence of winter's wild greens, here is a vegan recipe featuring a Middle Eastern specialty: Jerusalem Sage.
Cousa Mahshi, Lebanese Stuffed Zucchini
A specialty of the Middle East, stuffed zukes are favorites with young and old. In a Tel Aviv supermarket, I watched a mother soothing her tired, hungry little boy. “Just another few minutes, and then we’ll go to Grandmother’s house for lunch!” The little boy sniffled, looked up, and asked, “Are there going to be […]
Maklubah the classic Palestinian upside-down chicken and rice dish
A traditional Arabic dish of ancient origins, mouth-watering Maklubah (maqlub, maqlube) is a gala menu all by itself.