Lebanese Vermicelli Rice
Lebanese Vermicelli Rice Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Riz bi sh’arieh is one of my favourite rice dishes – so simple and so delicious. The fried vermicelli noodles add another dimension visually and texturally – especially if you toast them until they’re really dark golden – and the butter adds […]
Fattoush (Lebanese Bread Salad)
Fattoush Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Whenever I have stale Lebanese bread I generally turn it into pita crisps, then use some of them to make fattoush, one of the easiest and most delicious salads. There are as many variations on fattoush as there are Lebanese cooks. Some recipes include […]
Ful Medames
Ful Medames Like Ful Medames? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Ful medames is a creamy Middle Eastern fava bean dip. Served with some fresh warm flatbread, yoghurt or labne, mint, cucumber and olives it’s one of my favourite breakfast dishes, and it’s a great addition to a mezze table too. Ful medames is […]
Lebanese Cauliflower
Lebanese Cauliflower Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! I love the deep-fried cauliflower often seen as part of a Lebanese mezze, but it can be a touch oily. So I usually roast my Lebanese cauliflower in the oven instead. Roasting gives the same great caramelised flavour with less mess and fewer […]
Lebanese 7 Spice (Baharat)
Lebanese 7 Spice (Baharat) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! The classic seasoning in most Lebanese dishes is 7 Spice, also called baharat, and each cook and spice merchant has their preferred combination and ratio of spices. Many blends contain more than seven spices, as the “seven” may more literally mean […]
Shish Barak
Shish Barak Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Shish barak are little meat filled dumplings cooked in yoghurt sauce, similar to Turkish manti. I find that the longer the dough rests the easier it is to work with, as the gluten relaxes so it’s less likely to spring back when you […]
Lahmacun (Turkish Pizza)
Lahmacun Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Lahmacun (or lahmajun) is a contraction of ‘lahm bi ajeen’ literally meaning ‘meat with bread’; and these simple tasty flatbreads are also sometimes referred to as Armenian or Turkish pizza. The dough and lamb topping can also be used to make little Lebanese meat […]
Za’atar Manouche (Lebanese Flatbreads)
Za’atar Manouche Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Flatbreads called manouche (or manakish, manaqish, man’ousheh and other variations) are a very typical Lebanese breakfast, though I love them as a snack at any time of day. Za’atar (see video below), the ubiquitous Middle Eastern seasoning of dried thyme, is the most […]
Ejjeh (Lebanese Omelette)
Ejjeh(Lebanese Omelette) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! In Lebanon, ejjeh (omelettes), typically filled with just green onion and herbs, are popular as a snack, part of a meze, or as a sandwich filling wrapped inside fresh pita – sometimes with a little extra green onion and parsley or onion and […]
Lebanese Coffee (Arabic Coffee)
Lebanese Coffee Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Lebanese coffee – or Arabic coffee, also called qahwa, kahwa or ahweh – is very similar to Turkish coffee, except that it’s often scented with cardamom seeds, which the Turks don’t use. Both are made with pulverised coffee beans, which are often sold […]