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Zalabia (Fried Dough) Recipe
Zalabia — one of the tastiest and easiest pastries to make. Serve at breakfast with labneh or as a sweet with sugar or syrup. This version is flavored with anise.
Awama (Luqaimat) — Crisp Syrup-Dipped Dough Balls
A reliable homemade recipe for awama: small fried dough balls that are syrup-dipped. Frying in two stages gives them their signature crispness.
Zanoud al-Sitt (Cream-Filled Pastries)
Zanoud al-Sitt filled with pastry cream using ready-made baklava or phyllo sheets — quick to make. Prepare the easy cream and the rest is simpler. Garnish with crushed pistachios. Can be fried or baked.
Baked Potato and Eggplant Tray
Potato and eggplant tray... slices of potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, and onions with a minced meat filling. It couldn't be quicker! Prepare this tray when you don't have much time to hollow out and stuff vegetables.
Mujadara with Rice or Mudardara
Mujadara with Rice, also known as Mudardara. The trick to this recipe is using the correct amount of water so the rice and lentils don't absorb too much. And of course, don't forget the fried onions on top!
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?
How to Make Yellow Rice with Chicken
A tried-and-tested homemade recipe for saffron yellow rice with fried chicken — easy to make and very delicious.
Baqleh al-Hummus
A traditional dish and a widely known popular food in Lebanon... Baqleh al-Hummus, as some call it, may have a different name in other regions. It can be a vegetarian dish, or meat can be added to it, as in this recipe.
How to Make Donuts
Donuts are rich, fried sweets that kids love! Make them at home to make sure the oil is clean, and because they’re definitely more economical. Super easy!
Crispy Mashbak (Crunchy Fried Pastry)
A clear, tried-and-true homemade recipe for crispy mashbak — a rich, delicious Arabic sweet that many love. Very easy.
Kabsa with Lamb Rib
Kabsa rice with a lamb rib — a very distinctive recipe. The rice is baked in a tray in the oven, which gives it a unique flavor. The meat topping and peas add the finishing touches.
Chicken Lasagna
A delicious chicken lasagna recipe. It takes some time because it’s made in stages, but the result is wonderfully different from the usual. You’ve probably tried meat or vegetarian lasagna before—this one is new and worth trying.
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 Alat (Hindbeh)
Alat (hindbeh) is a light, healthy Lebanese meze. There are several ways to prepare it—some simply boil and dress it with lemon and olive oil, others sauté it with onions or top it with fried onions.
Mshabbak (Lace Sweet Pastry)
Mshabbak (also called the Arabic lace pastry) is a traditional syrup-dipped fried dessert. This recipe includes instructions for coloring the syrup, if desired.
Brazilian Sonho (Cream-Filled Doughnuts)
Sonho — a Brazilian sweet made from fried dough filled with cooked, cooled pastry cream. Dust with powdered sugar to serve. A very delicious treat we recommend trying.