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Lebanese Red Mujaddara
Red Mujaddara is one of the most defining Lebanese dishes from southern Lebanon, famous and popular. This recipe is vegetarian and is served with salad, fresh vegetables, and yogurt.
Crispy Chicken
Crispy chicken made with a homemade recipe that’s just unbeatable. The chicken tastes and looks so good—it’s truly something else. Get all the details and follow the steps carefully. Serve the crispy chicken with fries, coleslaw, and garlic sauce, or even yellow rice with vegetables!
Makdous - Eggplants stuffed with Walnuts
Makdous is one of the tastiest and richest pickles on the table. It can be eaten as a standalone meal with flatbread and vegetables or paired with dishes like fried eggs or mujaddara. Preparing makdous isn’t easy, but as the women of Shoutabkhin Today show, it isn’t impossible either!
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.
Pickled Turnips
Pickled turnips, or kabees el lift, made with an easy homemade recipe and a delicious result. Turnips are one of the tastiest vegetables to pickle, and they are especially good served alongside different dishes, especially mujaddara and a bowl of ful medames.
Pickled Green Beans with Walnuts
Pickled green beans with red peppers and walnuts are among the tastiest pickles, and we recommend making them if you have not tried them before... delicious with any dish, especially mujaddara.
How to Prepare Sfouf Dessert
Sfouf dessert... This sweet is very popular, which is why there are many recipes and ways to make it. There is no doubt that the quality of the yellow turmeric mixture used plays a major role in the final flavor!
How to Make Safouf Dessert
Safouf is one of the most well-known Arabic dessert recipes. Its flavor and color depend mainly on turmeric or yellow coloring, which must be of high quality to achieve the desired result.
How to Make Safouf
A wonderful recipe for making safouf at home easily and very deliciously. You can adjust the amount of turmeric, or yellow knotweed, to get the flavor and color you want.
Kibbeh in a Tray
Kibbeh in a tray is one of the tastiest and easiest kibbeh recipes. It takes less time to prepare than making individual patties, and we recommend serving it with any kind of lentil soup.
How to Make Russian Borscht Soup
An easy and very delicious Russian borscht soup recipe! A great recipe made with ingredients available in every home, and it will definitely be a refreshing change if you are tired of lentil soup and other traditional soups!
How to Make Colored Rice?
A very easy yet elegant method for preparing colored rice, or saffron-yellow rice. Simple additions to some dishes give them a boost that changes their flavor and color, and this dish is a perfect example.
How to Make Mashatih Bread
Mashatih is a popular type of pastry in Lebanon, especially at the suhoor table during the holy month of Ramadan. If cracked wheat is not available among the ingredients for mashatih, you can replace it with fine bulgur.
How to Make the Best Shish Barak
Shish barak is a traditional dish with roots in Turkish cuisine. Some people enjoy it with rice, while others serve it with rice mujaddara. How do you serve it?
Rice Mujadara (Madardara)
Mujadara with rice uses rice instead of bulgur in the traditional mujaddara. Serve Mujadara with a green salad and yogurt for a complete meal.
How to Make the Tastiest Emirati Luqaimat
How to make the tastiest Emirati luqaimat with cardamom and saffron! Luqaimat are similar to the well-known awama, but without eggs and with a pinch of turmeric or yellow spice for color.
How to Make Sayyadiya Rice
Yellow Sayyadiya rice — a delicious, distinctive recipe. The rice gets its yellow color from turmeric. Sayyadiya is particularly delicious served with tarator (tartar) or baba ghanoush.
How to Make Safouf
An easy and very delicious recipe for making safouf at home. You can increase the amount of turmeric or yellow sohbe in this recipe depending on the type of turmeric you have and on how strong you want the color and flavor to be.

















