Dinner
Shish Taouk
Chicken cubes marinated in yoghurt, garlic and lemon with a little tomato purée, grilled hard and served with toum…
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Appetizers
Moutabal
Aubergine charred whole over a flame until it collapses, then whipped with tahini, lemon and garlic into a smoky…
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Desserts
Maamoul
Semolina shortbread moulded around dates, walnuts or pistachios, pressed in a carved wooden mould and baked pale…
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Dinner
Spiced Lamb Lettuce Cups
Lamb mince fried hard with cumin, cinnamon and Aleppo pepper, spooned into cold lettuce cups with pickled onion — 31…
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Appetizers
Muhammara
Roasted red peppers and walnuts ground to a coarse paste with pomegranate molasses and chilli. Aleppo’s dip rather…
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Appetizers
Batata Harra
Fried potato cubes tossed off the heat with a raw paste of garlic, coriander and chilli. The point is that the…
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Appetizers
Warak Enab
Vine leaves rolled around rice, tomato, parsley and mint, packed tight into a pot and cooked in lemon and oil. The…
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Appetizers
Makdous
Baby aubergines boiled soft, stuffed with walnuts, garlic and chilli, then packed under olive oil. A preserve rather…
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Appetizers
Shanklish Salad
A dry, sharp, thyme-rolled cheese crumbled over tomato and onion and dressed with oil. Shanklish is aged to the…
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Appetizers
Toum
Garlic and oil beaten to a stiff white emulsion with nothing else in it but lemon and salt. No egg, no dairy — the…
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Appetizers
Sambousek
Half-moon pastries of spiced lamb and pine nuts, fried until blistered. The dough is made with oil rather than…
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Appetizers
Spinach Fatayer
Triangular spinach pies, sharp with sumac and lemon, sealed so they hold their shape. The filling is never cooked…
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Appetizers
Cheese Rakakat
Cigarettes of filo around salty white cheese, fried until they blister. The cheese has to be one that softens…
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Appetizers
Balila
Warm chickpeas in their own liquor with cumin, garlic and lemon. Sold from carts for breakfast and about as simple…
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Appetizers
Maghmour
Aubergine and chickpeas stewed down in tomato and garlic until everything collapses. Often called Lebanese moussaka…
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Loubieh bi Zeit
Green beans braised soft in tomato and olive oil. Not blanched, not crisp — cooked until they give completely, which…
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Appetizers
Hummus Beiruti
The rougher city version: chickpeas left coarse, cut through with parsley, chilli and pickle. Made to be eaten as a…
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Appetizers
Fried Kibbeh
Torpedoes of bulgur and lean lamb, hollowed by hand, filled with spiced mince and pine nuts, and fried. The hardest…
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Appetizers
Salatet Raheb
The monk's salad: aubergine burned over a flame until it collapses, then chopped rough with tomato, onion and lemon…
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Appetizers
Carrot and Tahini Salad
Raw grated carrot dressed with a loosened tahini sauce and a lot of lemon. A five-minute salad that gets on the…
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Dinner
Kafta bil Sanieh
Spiced lamb pressed flat into a tray, layered with potato and tomato and baked in one dish. The weeknight answer to…
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Dinner
Kibbeh bil Sanieh
Two layers of bulgur and lamb around a middle of spiced mince and pine nuts, scored into diamonds and baked. The…
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Dinner
Kibbeh Labaniyeh
Kibbeh balls poached in a stabilised yogurt sauce with garlic and dried mint. Warm, sour, and completely unlike the…
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Dinner
Shish Barak
Tiny meat dumplings pinched into rings and cooked in the same garlic-and-mint yogurt. Fiddly enough that it is a…
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Dinner
Sayadieh
Fish poached, set aside, and its stock used to cook rice under a mountain of onions taken almost to black. Tripoli…
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Dinner
Samke Harra
Whole fish under a tahini, chilli and coriander sauce, from Tripoli. The sauce is loosened with the fish stock and…
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Dinner
Sfiha Baalbakieh
Small open-topped meat pies from Baalbek, the meat sharp with pomegranate molasses and tomato. Open, not sealed, and…
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Quick Meals
Arayes
Pitta stuffed with raw spiced lamb and grilled until the bread crisps and the fat from the meat soaks into it…
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Dinner
Riz a Djaj
Chicken poached with whole spices, its broth used for the rice, the meat pulled and piled back on top with toasted…
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Dinner
Djaj Mhammar
Chicken and potatoes roasted hard in lemon, garlic and olive oil until the edges blacken. Four ingredients doing all…
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Dinner
Bamia bi Lahme
Okra and lamb stewed in tomato with a lot of coriander and garlic. Cooked long enough that the okra gives up…
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Dinner
Fasolia bi Lahme
White beans and lamb stewed with tomato and a great deal of garlic and coriander. The everyday winter pot, eaten…
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Dinner
Sheikh el Mahshi
Aubergines split, stuffed with lamb and pine nuts, and baked in tomato. The name means "the chief of stuffed…
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Dinner
Koussa Mahshi
Small courgettes cored and filled with rice and lamb, cooked upright in tomato. Coring them without going through…
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Dinner
Malfouf Mahshi
Cabbage leaves rolled tight around rice and lamb, packed in layers with garlic and dried mint. The winter cousin of…
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Dinner
Yakhnet Batata
Potato and lamb stewed in tomato with coriander and garlic until the potatoes start to break and thicken the pot…
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Dinner
Freekeh with Chicken
Green wheat, harvested young and roasted over fire, cooked like a pilaf under poached chicken. It tastes of smoke…
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Dinner
Kousa bil Laban
Stuffed courgettes finished in the garlic and mint yogurt rather than tomato. Milder than the tomato version and, in…
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Baking
Khubz Arabi
The pocket bread. Two minutes in a very hot oven, where steam trapped inside blows the loaf apart into two leaves —…
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Baking
Ka'ak bil Simsim
The handbag-shaped sesame bread sold from glass carts on Beirut pavements, split and filled with za’atar or cheese…
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Baking
Talami
A soft flat village loaf, dimpled with the fingers and baked with olive oil and a scatter of sesame. Larger and…
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Desserts
Mouhalabieh
Milk set with cornflour, perfumed with rose and orange blossom, and scattered with pistachio. Barely sweet, eaten…
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Desserts
Layali Lubnan
Lebanese nights: a semolina layer, a thick cream layer, syrup and nuts. Assembled in a dish and cut into squares…
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Desserts
Atayef Asafiri
Little pancakes cooked on one side only, folded round thick cream and left open at one end so the pistachio shows…
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Desserts
Halawet el Jibn
A stretchy semolina and cheese dough rolled around cream and soaked in syrup. Somewhere between a pastry and a sweet…
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Desserts
Znoud el Sit
Filo fingers filled with thick cream, fried and dropped straight into cold syrup. The name means "the lady's upper…
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Baking
Sfouf
A yellow semolina cake coloured and flavoured with turmeric, made with oil rather than butter and no eggs at all…
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Desserts
Meghli
A dark spiced rice pudding made to celebrate a birth, soaked in caraway, anise and cinnamon and buried under soaked…
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Drinks
Jallab
Date and grape molasses loosened with rose water and iced, then floated with soaked pine nuts and raisins. Sold on…
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Appetizers
Sfiha
Open lamb pies the size of a saucer, tart with pomegranate molasses. Baalbek makes them flat and thin.
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Breakfast
Fattet Hummus
Crisp torn bread under warm chickpeas under garlicky yoghurt, finished with browned butter and pine nuts. Assembled…
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