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Easy Layali Lebanon
Layali Lebanon is a delightful Lebanese dessert with a memorable name. Try this very easy Layali Lebanon recipe and serve it chilled with cream and pistachios. Perfect to enjoy with guests from the heart of Lebanese cuisine!
Healthy Eggplant Roll Recipe
A new, healthy way to prepare eggplant—meatless and fried-free! Try this delicious vegetarian Eggplant Roll recipe, and you’ll love it.
How Do I Make the Tastiest and Easiest Safouf?
An easy and very delicious recipe for making safouf... Safouf is one of the most loved and well-known traditional desserts across the Arab world.
Laban Amo (Shakrya) with Rice
Shakaryah (Laban Amo) is a traditional yogurt-based dish. Try this easy shakaryah recipe; we hope you enjoy it.
Diamond Dessert (Almasiya)
Almasiya (Diamond Dessert): a traditional Arab treat that pairs milk pudding with orange milk pudding in a harmonious blend of flavors and colors.
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?
Qamar al-Din or Qamar Over the Clouds
Qamar al-Din Over the Clouds is a well-known Lebanese dessert, especially in Tripoli. This recipe blends a milk-based pudding with qamar al-din for a delicious, easy dessert.
Tripoli Shmeiseh Dessert
Shmeiseh is a popular traditional sweet from the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon. With clear, simple steps, you can make this dessert at home using a few inexpensive ingredients. Enjoy making it and serving it.
Carrot Dessert
Very easy, very quick, and incredibly tasty! Carrot Dessert is a traditional sweet that doesn't take much effort and uses ingredients you likely have at home. We recommend you try it.
Aleppine Kibbeh, Delicate Kibbeh
A somewhat different method for fried kibbeh, this version comes from the Aleppo kitchen. Try this traditional, flavorful approach as a change of pace.
Baba au Rhum Cake
Baba au rhum is a famous French dessert that is traditionally prepared quite differently from this recipe... here, baba au rhum is made in a large cake pan instead of individual molds, and it is soaked with syrup.
Maamoul with Ashta
Maamoul is delicious any time of year, not just during Eid :) Or at least that is what we tell ourselves so we can eat it all the time. This recipe is different from the traditional maamoul made with Aleppo pistachios or dates and walnuts; this version is filled with delicious ashta!
Successful Maamoul Recipe
Perfect maamoul for all your happy occasions, holidays, and hospitality. This recipe is reliable and traditional—just follow the steps and you’ll be happy with the result every time, and never want to change it.
Fried Stuffed Intestines
Fawaregh is one of the names for this traditional dish, which is popular in many countries around the world. It is known as fawaregh in the Levant, manbar in Egypt, and batcha in Iraq and Iran. Here is a special method for preparing it, then frying it to make it even more delicious.
Farakah Recipe
Farakah is one of the tastiest Lebanese appetizers and has become a hallmark of Lebanese cuisine. Here is the recipe, explained clearly and simply, and delicious beyond compare.
How do I make the tastiest moghli or karawiya?
Moghli, or karawiya, made at home the traditional way... finished with coconut and nuts! It is usually served for the birth of a new baby, but we can enjoy it with or without an occasion, can't we? :)
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.

















