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Green Fava Beans with Cilantro and Garlic
Fava beans in oil is a light vegetarian dish served cold. These traditional village recipes are nutritious, healthy, and inexpensive.
Eggplant Boats with Vegetables
Eggplant boats with vegetables are a tasty oil-based recipe — a light dish suitable as an appetizer. You can add tomato sauce and water, simmer, then serve with rice.
How to Preserve Baladi (Village) Cheese
How to preserve baladi cheese: from salting and boiling to packing in jars. Every step is listed in detail in this recipe—nothing beats homemade pantry preserves!
Cake with Cream and Jam Filling
A cake filled with cream and jam — very special because it's easy and the result tastes better than store-bought. The combination of jam and cream gives the cake an unbeatable flavor. Try it and tell us what you think.
Maquda (Laban Amu)
Maquda, called Laban Amu in parts of southern Lebanon, also known as Shakriyeh with rice — a delicious yogurt-based dish with boiled meat and small onions, served with rice and vermicelli.
Nutella Honeycomb Pastry
Discover the tastiest way to make honeycomb pastry filled with Nutella. You can use any filling you like to tailor the flavor to your liking.
Nutella Donuts
A wonderful recipe for homemade chocolate donuts, made with readily available ingredients. Try these Nutella-filled donuts and watch your kids love them.
Semolina Maamoul with Cream Filling
Maamoul Mad with cream filling is a beloved Arabic sweet with wide popularity. You can make Maamoul Mad with cream filling or with dates, depending on preference and the ingredients you have.
How Do You Make Bulgur with Cabbage?
Bulgur with boiled cabbage and chickpeas is one of the well-known traditional dishes from the old heritage... A very delicious vegetarian recipe, and we recommend trying it.
Mabrousha Cake with Apricot Jam
A nostalgic Mabrousha cake that brings back childhood memories of a simple, delicious jam-filled treat. Perfect for tea time with apricot jam.
Frozen Okra Stew
Okra is a very delicious and very nutritious vegetable. There are different ways to prepare okra, whether with oil or with meat. This recipe is for okra stew with pieces of meat, served alongside rice.
Secrets to Perfectly Boiling Fava Beans
Ful medames is one of the most beloved breakfast dishes, with slight variations in seasoning from one country to another, or even from one region to another within the same country. Here, we share the secrets to perfectly boiling fava beans while keeping their color light and seasoning them to your taste!
Easy Cookie Recipe
Easy cookies with a detailed, step-by-step method for the best chocolate chip cookies! The kids will love them.
Spinach Salad with Walnuts and Pomegranate
Spinach salad is one of the tastiest salads. Many of you may have only tried spinach in pies or stews before—try it as a salad: super nutritious and delicious.
Tart with Cream and Chocolate Sauce
Tart filled with whipped cream or chocolate sauce — or make mini tarts if you prefer. Prepare the tart dough as detailed in the recipe; the rest is very easy.
Genoise Sponge Cake
Genoise sponge cake — a cream-and-fruit filled cake. Can be made plain or chocolate. Loved by everyone and perfect for any occasion.
Flat Maamoul with Ashta and Pistachio
Flat (layered) maamoul filled with ashta (clotted cream) and pistachios — a special, elegant dessert worth trying. The recipe includes homemade ashta and syrup.
Baked Cream Phyllo Rolls
Oven-baked phyllo rolls filled with homemade clotted cream (qeshta) and soaked with light sugar syrup. Includes detailed recipes for the cream and the syrup.