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Rice with Chicken: How to Prepare
A practical, flavorful chicken-and-rice dish for any time—serve with yogurt and a green salad.
Tripoli Shmeiseh Dessert
Shmeiseh is a popular traditional sweet from the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon. With clear, simple steps, you can make this dessert at home using a few inexpensive ingredients. Enjoy making it and serving it.
How to Make Jibneh Halawa
Jibneh Halawa is one of the most delicious Arab sweets you will keep making at home once you get it right the first time! Homemade is cleaner and better, and this recipe is very easy, with a new and practical way to make the cream.
How to Make Rice Mansaf with Meat
Rice mansaf with meat is a distinctive dish suitable for any table. This mansaf recipe is tried and recommended — give it a try and we guarantee success.
Peanut Sweets
Peanut sweets — an inventive treat made from a simple dough filled with peanuts mixed with condensed milk, then coated in chocolate. A delicious and accessible dessert.
Easy Lebanese Nights Dessert
Layali Lubnan is one of the most delicious and easiest desserts. It’s especially perfect in hot weather because it is served cold from the fridge and has a very light, jelly-like texture. Here is the easiest way to make it.
How to Make Rice with Chicken and Saffron
A very delicious recipe for saffron rice with chicken. Serve this saffron rice and chicken dish with green salad and yogurt for a satisfying, well-rounded meal.
Easy Othmaliyyeh Dessert
A delicious homemade Othmaliyyeh made the easy, authentic way! The recipe includes the method for making the best ashta. Nothing beats homemade sweets! Enjoy.
How to Make Mishbak (Arab Sweet)
Mishbak is a popular, rich Arab dessert that's fried and then soaked in syrup. Here is a clear, delicious recipe for making it at home.
Chicken Rice Recipe
A delicious chicken and rice dish that's perfect for any occasion. Try the chicken rice using the method in this recipe, and learn how to properly brown the chicken. You can also add ground meat to the rice if you like. Bon appétit!
Upside-Down Rice with Fava Beans and Chicken
Rice with fava beans and chicken... do you know this recipe? A mix of maqluba, rice with fava beans, and rice with chicken!!! Try it — it’s definitely delicious with yogurt!
Lebanese Nights Dessert (Layali Lubnan)
A delicious, easy Lebanese dessert featuring layers of cooked and fresh qeshta (creamy clotted cream) and nuts for a rich, distinctive finish.
Almond Halawa (Almond Croissants)
Almond halawa or almond croissants are a wonderful recipe in both appearance and taste! Try this detailed start-to-finish recipe including how to make marzipan dough — a perfect special treat for your celebrations.
Yellow Rice with Chicken
Yellow rice with chicken is a delicious dish of fluffy rice cooked in chicken stock and colored with turmeric, or with duga safra. It is finished with a topping of tasty nuts. Here is the method.
Potato Kunafa
A potato-based kunafa, a surprising twist on the classic dessert. You can make it with regular potatoes or sweet potatoes for a dessert that's easy to make and unbelievably delicious.
Laban Amo (Yogurt Stew) or Shakeriya with Rice
Laban Amo or Shakeriya is a popular traditional dish in many regions. If you enjoy cooking with yogurt, you’ll surely love this recipe.
Sha'ibiat
A very easy recipe for a delicious dessert. Sha'ibiat is one of the popular sweets especially well known during the holy month of Ramadan, but it is delicious any time of year.
Sheikh al-Mahshi Eggplant with Rice
Sheikh al-Mahshi eggplant prepared in a detailed homemade recipe we highly recommend trying... The sauce is prepared separately, then poured into the tray of stuffed eggplant! A truly royal dish. Try it now.

















