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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.
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 Homemade Beef Hamburgers
A practical, tested, and reliable recipe for making homemade beef hamburger patties. Why buy premade hamburger meat when you can make them at home, easily, deliciously, and affordably?
Dawood Basha (Meatballs) with Rice
Dawood Basha is a dish of Turkish origin that has become a beloved family classic across the Arab world — popular with both children and adults.
How to Make Grilled Eggplant with Cheese
A distinctive way to serve roasted eggplant with vegetables in the oven. You can serve grilled eggplant with meat or on its own, alongside cooked rice.
Turkish Iskender Kebab
A renowned Turkish dish known for its flavorful meat toppings. Here is a wonderful, homemade Iskender Kebab recipe that is tried and delicious.
Baalbek-Style Fatayer
Baalbek-style fatayer is a famous pastry in Baalbek, Lebanon. The meat-filled version is loved across many Lebanese regions. Here is the authentic Baalbek-style fatayer recipe.
How to Make Kofta with Tahini
Kofta with tahini is a wonderful homemade recipe! Kofta cooks quickly because ground meat cooks fast, making this a practical dish for any busy working woman!
Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes with minced meat in a proper homemade recipe! Despite how simple it is, this dish is very tasty, filling, and best of all, very easy to make.
Turmeric Rice (Yellow Spiced Rice)
Turmeric rice, or yellow spiced rice, made with a cozy homemade recipe. We added aromatic seasonings to the rice, giving it a distinctive fragrance and flavor. This rice is delicious with meats, especially fish.
Kibbeh Nayyeh (Raw Kibbeh) — Authentic Method
Raw kibbeh is one of the best-known Lebanese dishes. Use very fresh, high-quality meat and serve immediately after preparation.
Potato Stew
A tasty and easy potato stew. The flavor comes from lightly frying garlic and coriander, then adding boiled meat so it browns and absorbs those tasty flavors.
Lentil Soup with Lemon
Lentil soup with lemon... a very nutritious and delicious soup. It contains Swiss chard and potatoes, in addition to lentils and lemon. This soup is vegetarian, but some like to add ground meat to it.
Vegetable Spaghetti
Vegetable spaghetti is a delicious vegetarian recipe we highly recommend trying to balance your diet between red and white meats and plant-based meals.
How to Prepare Kibbeh with Raw Farakeh
Raw kibbeh and faraqeh are among Lebanon’s most famous dishes. Preparing kibbeh with raw faraqeh requires special care and strict hygiene when handling raw meat to protect health.
Maqroun Kibbeh Filled with Walnuts
We’re used to seeing fried kibbeh filled with meat, but this recipe is very inventive and sweet: fried maqroun dessert stuffed with walnuts! What do you think about trying this sweet kibbeh for a change?
Eggplant Sheikh al-Mahshi — Lebanese Style
Sheikh al-Mahshi eggplant is one of the most delicious ways to prepare eggplant. The eggplants are stuffed after frying with minced meat and simmered in a tomato sauce. Serve with rice.
Lahma Bi Ajeen (Meat Flatbreads)
Lahma bi ajeen is a beloved Arab pastry—some like it with a squeeze of lemon, others prefer yogurt.

















