Middle East Cuisine

7 Iconic Palestinian Desserts You Need to Try

Middle East Cuisine

No catalog of Middle Eastern desserts is complete without devoting a special chapter to the desserts of Palestine. Many of today’s Palestinian desserts are given the overgeneralized label “Middle Eastern desserts”. While...

Azhar Amayreh

May 2, 2022

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Turkish Salads: From the Tables of Sultans to your Home

This article introduces you to Turkish Salads, which are one of the building blocks of Turkish cuisine. To explain the significance of salads in this rich and diverse cuisine, we...

Feyza Kirmaci

April 30, 2022

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Piyaz with Tahini/ White Bean Salad

Legume salads, such as white beans, kidney beans, chickpeas, broad beans, and black-eyed peas, are a must-have if you want to familiarize yourself with Turkish Salads. When seasoned with olive...

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April 29, 2022

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Çoban Salata (Sheperd’s Salad)

The most popular of Turkish salads is shepherd’s salad, randomly chopped tomatoes, cucumber, onion, pepper, and parsley, served with olive oil, lemon, and salt.

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April 29, 2022

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Purslane Salad with Yoghurt

Salads made with greens are not only limited to lettuce, arugula, curly cress, and sorrel. Making salads with fresh purslane collected from the garden, especially in summer, is as common...

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April 29, 2022

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Turkish Style Potato Salad

Of course, it is impossible to imagine Turkey’s most popular root vegetables not being consumed as salads. Carrots, celery, potatoes all have different roles in salads, as do cooking and...

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April 29, 2022

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Manca/ Roasted Eggplant and Pepper Salad

Everyone in Turkey would agree that roasted vegetable salads are more delicious with vegetables cooked over an open fire. Roasted vegetable salads are the favorite of large picnics and weekend...

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April 29, 2022

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The 10 Top Notch Traditional Palestinian Foods

Middle East Cuisine

Food is crucial to our sense of identity. It is very difficult to present one’s own identity and culture with an exclusion of the way any given group eats and...

Khalid Amayreh

April 18, 2022

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The Turkish Breakfast: 8 Delicious Dishes to Start your Day

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Since their settlement in Anatolia, the eating habits of the Turks have changed dramatically, even breakfast. The Selçuk Turks and then the Ottomans ate two meals, mid-morning and evening. From...

Feyza Kirmaci

April 15, 2022

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Top 20 Israeli Desserts and Sweets

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Israel is famed across the world for its rich, diverse, multi-ethnic cuisine that draws inspiration from many different cultures to form a lush culinary tapestry. Situated alongside the Mediterranean coast,...

Matan Maslawi

March 28, 2022

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All About Shawarma (Types, Seasoning, Marinades and Sauces)

Middle East Cuisine

Let’s embark on a journey exploring this Middle Eastern specialty that is cherrished around the globe. We dig into its roots, document its journey through different cultures, and find out...

Feyza Kirmaci

March 24, 2022

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23 Popular Syrian Desserts & Sweets

Syrian sweets are some of the most famous throughout the Levant. They are known for their high quality and distinct taste, which is because craftsmen introduced nuts, natural cream, and...

Mohammad Ayash

February 21, 2022

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