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Apple Cake
Apple cake is one of the world’s most popular and famous desserts. When apples are in season, apple cake is the perfect way to use them in tasty recipes.
Cookie Cake - Video
Cookies in all their forms are among kids' favorite sweets... but why make small cookies if you can make one big cookie that serves everyone? Enjoy cookie cake.
Sunflower Halva
A unique and very creative sunflower dessert; try this recipe and you’ll surely impress with a tasty treat.
How to Make Tripoli Ka'ak
A wonderful recipe for making Tripoli ka'ak, especially for expatriates who cannot easily buy it fresh. What makes this Tripoli ka'ak recipe special is that all the ingredients are easy to find and it doesn't take much time.
Red Lentil Mujaddara
Red mujaddara is one of the most delicious and famous vegetarian dishes from southern Lebanon. Be careful when frying the onions so they do not burn and turn the mujaddara bitter.
How to Make Avocado Guacamole Sauce
Guacamole, or avocado sauce, is a Mexican recipe that has become very popular in the Arab world. Serve guacamole as a dip with nachos or corn chips, or with chicken fajitas.
Namoura Without Flour
Namoura made without flour — an easy and innovative version that uses tahini instead of flour to yield a light, crumbly, delicious Namoura.
Crispy Chicken
An easy, quick recipe that doesn’t take much time to prepare crispy chicken. There are many different crispy chicken recipes, and we recommend trying this one.
Meatballs with Cheese and Cream
A simple, standout recipe for meat and potato balls with cream and cheese. Highly recommended.
How to Make Authentic Petit Four
Petit four is one of the famous and beloved French recipes, but it requires some precision when measuring the ingredients to get the desired result. It will always be very soft right after coming out of the oven, but give it some time and it will become wonderfully just right.
Cauliflower Maqluba (Zahri)
Cauliflower Maqluba, also known as Zahri, is a traditional dish with wide popularity. You can omit eggplant in this recipe, and you can adjust or increase the vegetables and add ground meat as desired.
Za'atar, Cheese, and Olive Rolls
Dough rolls filled with za'atar, cheese and olives, or any filling you like. This is a very tasty and practical recipe that kids will definitely love. Try it and let us know what you think in the comments.
Bread with Cheese and Green Thyme
Green thyme and cheese bread is a very distinctive and delicious bread that can be prepared and enjoyed at any time.
Namoura with Cream and Coconut
A very easy recipe for namoura with cream and coconut. This recipe takes very little time, and in just a maximum of half an hour you’ll have the tastiest namoura with cream and coconut.
Croissant Making
A wonderful, proven, home-tested method for making croissants at home. The process takes time, but the result is well worth the wait.
Ful Medames: How to Make Fava Bean Stew
Ful medames is one of the tastiest breakfast dishes in the Levant. The way of preparing and serving ful medames in Lebanon differs from Egypt, and every cook puts her own signature on making it.
How to Make Tomato Kamouneh
Tomato kamouneh is one of the most famous and delicious Lebanese vegetarian recipes. It is based on kamouneh seasoning, a blend of aromatic herbs and spices also used for meat kibbeh and potato kibbeh.
Turkish Cracked Cookies
Turkish cracked cookies are a delicious and easy dessert. Try this recipe to make crackled Turkish cookies to enjoy with tea.
Beef Steak with Pomegranate Molasses
How would you like to prepare and enjoy meat? This steak recipe uses pomegranate molasses as a key component to give the meat its distinctive flavor.
How to Make Tortilla Bread (Tortilla)
A simple, tested recipe for making tortillas. Serve tortilla bread with fajitas and guacamole for a complete meal.
How to Make Cotton Candy at Home
A wonderful recipe for making cotton candy at home. This method is very easy and uses only a few ingredients, though the challenge lies in shaping the strands to create fine, spun-sugar filaments.
How to Make Orange Cake
A delicious and incredibly easy orange cake recipe. It doesn’t require any special decoration and can be enjoyed as is, with or without frosting.
How to Make Safouf
A wonderful recipe for making safouf at home easily and very deliciously. You can adjust the amount of turmeric, or yellow knotweed, to get the flavor and color you want.
Moroccan Chicken with Chickpeas
A simple and very tasty way to prepare Moroccan-style chicken with chickpeas. This dish is very well known in the Levant, and some call it meftoul.