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Eggplant Pizza
Eggplant pizza — an innovative, delicious, healthy vegan recipe. If you want pizza without dough, this is the one. Try it!
Green Fava Beans with Cilantro and Garlic
Fava beans in oil is a light vegetarian dish served cold. These traditional village recipes are nutritious, healthy, and inexpensive.
Eggplant Boats with Vegetables
Eggplant boats with vegetables are a tasty oil-based recipe — a light dish suitable as an appetizer. You can add tomato sauce and water, simmer, then serve with rice.
Petit Four Without Oil
Oil-free petit fours — a lovely homemade recipe. Petit fours are a light, crisp cookie loved by children and adults. Try this successful recipe.
Green Zucchini with Lamb and Tomatoes
Green zucchini with lamb and tomatoes — an easy, light stew (zucchini is light by nature). As with most stews, serve with rice and toasted vermicelli.
How to Make Homemade Qatayef Batter
A reliably successful and very delicious homemade qatayef batter. Try it and fill the qatayef with chilled clotted cream prepared in advance. Qatayef is a light Arabic sweet :)
Bulgur Patties
Bulgur patties — a distinctive, new recipe. These tasty discs do not need to rest; they bake immediately after shaping. Serve with labneh and cheese.
Chocolate Crepes
Chocolate crepes are a light, quick dessert that's perfect for breakfast or a treat. Serve with fruit like banana or simply with chocolate, according to taste.
Lentil Rishta
Lentil Rishta is a vegetarian dish you will enjoy. Not very common but a very old recipe — simple ingredients based on lentils and dough. See the full method below.
Bulgur with Chicken
A light, flavorful bulgur-with-chicken dish — similar to rice in texture — served nicely with salad or yogurt.
Tea Bag–Shaped Cookies
Adorable tea bag–shaped cookies. Dough is cut into a tea-envelope shape, baked, then dipped in chocolate sauce — a charming treat for tea time.
Yellow Lentil Soup
A simple homemade yellow lentil soup made with everyday ingredients. Light, nutritious and delicious—especially served with kibbeh.
Homemade Petit Four Cookies
Petit four — a delicious French-style cookie. Decorate with jam or chocolate to add the finishing touch to these light, crisp cookies kids love. Try this easy method.
Jelly Pudding
Jelly pudding, or jello pudding... a light, delicious, refreshing, and easy dessert made of two layers: the first is jelly in any flavor you like, and the second is pudding with whipped cream...
Tart with Cream and Chocolate Sauce
Tart filled with whipped cream or chocolate sauce — or make mini tarts if you prefer. Prepare the tart dough as detailed in the recipe; the rest is very easy.
Ma'karoun (Zeinab's Fingers)
Asabe' Zainab (Ma'karoun) — simple, easy, and very tasty pastries. A classic Arabic sweet made from pantry staples.
Baked Cream Phyllo Rolls
Oven-baked phyllo rolls filled with homemade clotted cream (qeshta) and soaked with light sugar syrup. Includes detailed recipes for the cream and the syrup.
Lettuce and Heart-of-Palm (Palmito) Salad
A light, fresh lettuce and heart-of-palm salad — very tasty with steak and with many rice dishes, especially shrimp rice.