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Homemade Shaabiyat
Shaabiyat is one of the tastiest and easiest Arab desserts to prepare. Let’s make it at home—it won’t cost you much, and the cooked cream filling is simply irresistible.
Eggplant Salad with Pomegranate Molasses
Eggplant salad with tart pomegranate in a nontraditional recipe. Super delicious alongside many dishes, especially mujaddara, fried vegetables, or upside-down potatoes with onions. It can also be eaten with bread as a complete healthy meal on its own.
How to Make Apple Jam with Apple Slices
Apple jam can be made smooth or with slices, and it is delicious either way, especially with dried walnuts. Here is the traditional method, resulting in golden, delicious pieces of apple.
Mallow Greens with Tomatoes
Mallow greens with tomatoes, also called Karboozeh or Arbouzeh with tomatoes. The plant’s leaves resemble mulukhiyah leaves, and this is one of the old traditional dishes we encourage the younger generation to learn.
Beirut Rabbit Kibbeh
Rabbit kibbeh... who knows this old traditional Beirut dish? For those who don’t, it’s a dish of kibbeh meat patties cooked in a tahini sauce with onions and citrus juice. Very delicious and distinctive.
Sfoof Dessert with All-Purpose Flour and Fine Semolina
Sfoof is one of the easiest and quickest desserts to prepare. Do you make it with all-purpose flour, or do you mix it with fine semolina, also known as chicken flour? We used equal amounts of both in this recipe.
Masbaha al-Darwish, or Meat with Vegetables
Masbaha al-Darwish is one of the old names for a tray of meat with mixed vegetables. It is an easy, simple, and satisfying recipe that can be served with cooked rice.
How to Make Bulgur with Meat and Chickpeas
Bulgur with meat and chickpeas is a traditional dish based on the same idea as rice mansaf with meat. Bulgur, however, has unbeatable benefits, and it is light and delicious with chickpeas.
Authentic Ramadan Maamoul Bread
Ramadan maamoul, or authentic Syrian maamoul, made the traditional way in a tried-and-true, delicious recipe! Your family will love this recipe, which can be served as a dessert or a light snack, and during Ramadan it can make the most delicious suhoor!
Coriander Kabab Tray Bake
An easy, practical homemade kabab recipe... You don’t have to grill kabab over charcoal or prepare it in the traditional way with potatoes; you can make it this delicious way instead.
Bulgur with Chicken
Bulgur with chicken — a tasty, simple, healthy home-style recipe. The bulgur is cooked with vermicelli; boiled chicken can be mixed in or served on top.
Dough for All Pastries
A versatile dough for all pastries and uses — a very successful, reliable recipe. If you want to make pizza, pies, or manaqish, you'll need this recipe.
Rice with Grape-Leaf Filling in Olive Oil
Rice with grape-leaf filling is a delicious recipe many of you may not have tried yet — but it's worth it. The grape-leaf filling in oil is mixed with the rice and cooked on the stove, giving an amazing taste and aroma.
Best Maghliyeh Recipe
The best Maghliyeh, made the traditional way. Maghliyeh (also called karawiya) is a well-known Levantine dessert that takes time and effort to prepare but is utterly irresistible.
Lazy Cake (No-Bake Chocolate Biscuit Cake)
A super-easy no-bake cake — prepare the chocolate mixture, pour it over crushed biscuits, then chill in the freezer until firm. No oven required!
How to Make Baba au Rhum Cake
Baba au rhum is a traditional French dessert — the name historically refers to an elder woman — and the classic version soaks the cake in alcohol. Here is an easy home-style recipe that soaks the cake in a sweet syrup instead of rum.
Chicken with Curry and Vegetables
A rich, quick meal using chicken breast that cooks fast. The combination of mixed vegetables and cooking cream makes this a complete, satisfying dish — serve with rice.
Beehive Rolls with Musakhan Chicken Filling
An inventive recipe: beehive-style rolls filled with musakhan chicken (onion, sumac and nuts). Combines the traditional musakhan filling with small stuffed dough balls baked together.