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Easiest Oven-Baked Kibbeh
The easiest baked kibbeh — a tested, straightforward home recipe. Oven-baked kibbeh is delicious served with salads, yogurt, pickles, fries, or even soup.
How to Make a Sponge Cake
A wonderful, comprehensive recipe for making a sponge cake. You can decorate the sponge cake in any style you like, and we recommend trying the accompanying chocolate sauce, which is incredibly tasty.
Ouzi Rolls or Qouzi Fingers
Ouzi rolls are a creative way to serve ouzi or qouzi as finger-sized bites. The phyllo-style baklava dough makes the recipe wonderfully light and appealing. Prepare these easy qouzi fingers and serve them as an appetizer or with cucumber and yogurt.
Bean Stew with Rice - Aisha Khanum
Bean stew is a dish many people love, while others prefer to avoid it. Yet this stew—along with other stews—belongs to the most essential comfort foods for a healthy, balanced lifestyle. It’s a daily dish suitable for families and for schoolchildren.
Delicious Strawberry Tart
A delightful strawberry tart — one of the tastiest French-style tarts. This clear, detailed recipe shows how to make the pastry and the pastry cream.
Rice and Chicken Mansaf
Rice and chicken mansaf made with a homemade recipe that will have you licking your fingers! For the best meal or the grandest feast, this mansaf fits the bill. The recipe also includes a delicious vermicelli soup to serve with the mansaf.
Oven-Grilled Shrimp
Oven-grilled shrimp with an easy, distinctive home-style recipe. Preparation won’t take much time, but the result is fantastic. Choose large shell-on jumbo prawns for this dish!
Fish Fillet Casserole
Fish fillet casserole is an easy, delicious recipe that can be served hot or at room temperature. An extra way to prepare fillets in a tasty style — highly recommended to try!
Salmon with Fresh Cream and Spinach
A delicious, Western-style salmon recipe with cream and spinach. A great way to learn a new preparation for salmon to add to an Arab home-cooking repertoire and enjoy this flavorful, nutritious fish.
How to Make Baguette Bread
How to make baguette (Western-style) bread with a tried-and-true homemade recipe. The secret to success is fermentation: the longer the dough rests, the better the baguette.
How to Make Grilled Salmon
An easy, delicious home-style grilled salmon recipe that’s tried and true. Don’t be surprised by the honey — it plays an important role in flavor, tenderizing the fish and giving it a beautiful caramelized color.
Sanjari Fish (Opened from the Back and Roasted)
Sanjari fish — a distinctive way to roast whole fish: it’s opened from the back, filled with a vegetable-and-spice stuffing, left open and roasted in the oven. Popular across Gulf countries and Egyptian coastal cities. Large fish (commonly mullet) are typically used.











