Dinner · Lebanese

Lebanese dinner recipes

20 Lebanese dinner recipes, in a suggested order.

These are the 20 Lebanese recipes filed under dinner: 20 of the 2,108 dinners on the site, and 20 of its 52 Lebanese recipes. Of these, one is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 5, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 8 easy, 9 medium and 3 hard.

As written, 1 is vegetarian, 1 vegan, 7 gluten-free and 10 dairy-free. Another 7 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

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Lebanese main dishes

Shish Taouk
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Shish Taouk

Chicken cubes marinated in yoghurt, garlic and lemon with a little tomato purée, grilled hard and served with toum…

8.5 hr · Easy
Bamia bi Lahme
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
90m
Serves
6
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Bamia bi Lahme

Okra and lamb stewed in tomato with a lot of coriander and garlic. Cooked long enough that the okra gives up…

110 min · Easy
Djaj Mhammar
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
65m
Serves
6
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Djaj Mhammar

Chicken and potatoes roasted hard in lemon, garlic and olive oil until the edges blacken. Four ingredients doing all…

85 min · Easy
AI-generated illustration of Fasolia bi Lahme
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
95m
Serves
6
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Fasolia bi Lahme

White beans and lamb stewed with tomato and a great deal of garlic and coriander. The everyday winter pot, eaten…

2–10 hr · Easy
Freekeh with Chicken
Lebanese
Prep
25m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Freekeh with Chicken

Green wheat, harvested young and roasted over fire, cooked like a pilaf under poached chicken. It tastes of smoke…

85 min · Medium
AI-generated illustration of Kafta bil Sanieh
Lebanese
Prep
25m
Cook
45m
Serves
6
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Kafta bil Sanieh

Spiced lamb pressed flat into a tray, layered with potato and tomato and baked in one dish. The weeknight answer to…

70 min · Easy
Kibbeh bil Sanieh
Lebanese
Prep
50m
Cook
65m
Serves
8
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Kibbeh bil Sanieh

Two layers of bulgur and lamb around a middle of spiced mince and pine nuts, scored into diamonds and baked. The…

2 hr · Hard
Kibbeh Labaniyeh
Lebanese
Prep
55m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Kibbeh Labaniyeh

Kibbeh balls poached in a stabilised yogurt sauce with garlic and dried mint. Warm, sour, and completely unlike the…

110 min · Hard
Lebanese
Prep
45m
Cook
50m
Serves
6
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Kousa bil Laban

Stuffed courgettes finished in the garlic and mint yogurt rather than tomato. Milder than the tomato version and, in…

95 min · Medium
Koussa Mahshi
Lebanese
Prep
50m
Cook
55m
Serves
6
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Koussa Mahshi

Small courgettes cored and filled with rice and lamb, cooked upright in tomato. Coring them without going through…

105 min · Medium
Malfouf Mahshi
Lebanese
Prep
55m
Cook
60m
Serves
6
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Malfouf Mahshi

Cabbage leaves rolled tight around rice and lamb, packed in layers with garlic and dried mint. The winter cousin of…

2 hr · Medium
AI-generated illustration of Riz a Djaj
Lebanese
Prep
25m
Cook
70m
Serves
8
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Riz a Djaj

Chicken poached with whole spices, its broth used for the rice, the meat pulled and piled back on top with toasted…

95 min · Medium
AI-generated illustration of Samke Harra
Lebanese
Prep
30m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Samke Harra

Whole fish under a tahini, chilli and coriander sauce, from Tripoli. The sauce is loosened with the fish stock and…

70 min · Medium
Sayadieh
Lebanese
Prep
30m
Cook
55m
Serves
6
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Sayadieh

Fish poached, set aside, and its stock used to cook rice under a mountain of onions taken almost to black. Tripoli…

85 min · Medium
Sheikh el Mahshi
Lebanese
Prep
35m
Cook
50m
Serves
6
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Sheikh el Mahshi

Aubergines split, stuffed with lamb and pine nuts, and baked in tomato. The name means "the chief of stuffed…

85 min · Medium
Shish Barak
Lebanese
Prep
70m
Cook
35m
Serves
6
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Shish Barak

Tiny meat dumplings pinched into rings and cooked in the same garlic-and-mint yogurt. Fiddly enough that it is a…

105 min · Hard
Spiced Lamb Lettuce Cups
Lebanese
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Spiced Lamb Lettuce Cups

Lamb mince fried hard with cumin, cinnamon and Aleppo pepper, spooned into cold lettuce cups with pickled onion — 32…

30 min · Easy
AI-generated illustration of Yakhnet Batata
Lebanese
Prep
20m
Cook
65m
Serves
6
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Yakhnet Batata

Potato and lamb stewed in tomato with coriander and garlic until the potatoes start to break and thicken the pot…

85 min · Easy

Side dishes 1

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