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Cheese Sambousek
Cheese sambousek — quick and appetizing. Choose your preferred cheese and add chopped parsley if you like. This dough also works for meat filling.
Fattoush
Fattoush is a famous Lebanese salad featuring coarsely chopped fresh vegetables, a tangy dressing, and crispy toasted or fried bread, which sets it apart from other salads.
Chickpea Fatteh with Beef
A hearty, flavorful dish built on chickpeas, tahini-yogurt sauce, and toasted or fried bread. The minced beef on top adds extra richness and indulgence.
Easy Eggplant Fatteh with Ground Meat
Eggplant fatteh is one of the most popular vegetarian dishes in the Levant. You can prepare and serve fatteh with chickpeas or eggplant, always with a yogurt-and-garlic mixture for a very delicious dish rich in ingredients. ...
How to Make Zucchini with Yogurt
Yogurt dishes are especially popular in summer, and cooks prepare zucchini with yogurt in many different ways. Here is a delicious, tried-and-tested new recipe: zucchini stuffed with rice and meat in yogurt. Enjoy!
How to Make Mini Sandwich Dough - Step by Step
One of the most wonderful pastry recipes! It works for any time of day, whether for a light suhoor meal, a delicious breakfast, or as dough for shawarma sandwiches and all kinds of meats and cheeses. We recommend trying this recipe for mini sandwich bread.
How to Make Kamouna Spice Blend
Kamouna spice blend is a richly flavored mix that gives kibbeh and faraqa their distinctive taste. The Kamouna mix can be kept vegetarian, using only tomatoes, onions, and olive oil.
How to Make the Easiest Chicken and Vegetable Soup
A wonderful chicken and vegetable soup recipe! What makes this soup special is that it contains no oil or butter, and it can be served with a little toasted or fried bread. You can also add a tablespoon of butter, if desired, or a chicken bouillon cube.
How to Make Homemade Sausage?
Why buy pre-made sausage meat when making it at home is this easy? As we always say with Shu Tabkhin Today: home cooking is tastier, cleaner, and cheaper.
How to Make Potato and Frafkhin Pastries
Cheese pastries, potato pastries, and frafkhin pastries. Ingredients: 1 kilo potatoes, minced meat, salt and spices to taste, 1 onion, 2 bunches of frafkhin, sumac, olive oil, and mozzarella cheese. Method: Peel the potatoes, grate them, then squeeze them well to remove...
Green Beans in Oil
Green beans in oil are a practical, tasty vegetarian dish, especially for families and kids. This traditional Levantine recipe is popular across the Levant.
Lentil Rashta Soup
An unconventional, fresh way to prepare Rashta lentil soup, this time with dough filled with meat and reminiscent of Shish Barak. Try this recipe and you’ll get a delicious lentil rashta with a new flavor.
Homemade Sausage
Sausage is a delicious appetizer. This home-made sausage recipe walks you through every step. Enjoy the sausage fried on its own, or as a topping for pizzas or with eggs.
Kabuli Rice (Kabli Rice)
Kabli (Kabuli) Rice is a well-known dish in Saudi cuisine, alongside dishes like Machboos and Kabsa. This healthy variation skips heavy meats and fats.
Muhammara
Muhammara is one of the recipes closest to our hearts, and it can be served as a side dish with many meals, especially meats. Try it the way "What Are We Cooking Today?" makes it, and you won't be anything but delighted :)
Armenian-Style Lahm Bi Ajin
Armenian-style Lahm Bi Ajin offers a different take on the traditional meat-on-dough dish, distinct from the Shaami version. Try this Norma Kitchen rendition and share your thoughts.
Awamat (Arab Donuts)
Awamat are delicious fried dough pastries suitable for any time, but if you are on a strict diet, steer clear—they are typically fried in hot oil or served with syrup.
Maqroun
Maqroun is a delicious sweet. You may like it fried, which is the traditional version, but you can also bake it in the oven for a lighter taste and fewer calories :)

















