Syrian cuisine features home-cooking and a secret ingredient called "love", necessary in Middle Eastern style cooking. Syrians use a wide variety of spices such as cumin, coriander, allspice, cinnamon, sumac, and za'atar.
Essential Hannukah recipes to impress your Jewish friends.
Sour green plums the size of large marbles are in the local Middle East markets now, a seasonal favorite of the Iraqis. Eat them out of hand as a snack, sprinkling each bite with a little salt. The classic Iraqi way to cook them is to pair them with meat in a flavorful stew. And if you want to ask for them in Persian just say "Gojeh sabz!"
Baharat is an essential blend you can make at home. It's like a Middle Eastern answer to curry. But distinct.
Soul-satisfying makluba, an Arabic dish with our vegan twist.
We're still hungry for homemade tomato soup - chilled. Our vichyssoise recipe is delicious, but now we're on track of something not only cool, but also colorful, and busting out with Vitamin C to help us withstand the summer heat.
Turkish Ezme Recipe • Unicorns in the Kitchen Ezme means “mashed” which served well here since all the ingredients are chopped very finely by hand or a food processor. It's made mainly with tomatoes and olive oil, which makes it a healthy addition to the table. Each region of Turkey has a different way of making it and some like it spicy, known as acılı ezme.
Soup for Syria is a beautiful new cookbook of delicious and easy-to-make recipes guaranteed to fill your belly and feed your mind with heightened humanitarian awareness.
Khameer, a round flatbread of humble Beduin origins, once fell out of favor with the upscale eaters of the United Arab Emirates. But the tender round bread with its golden top is enjoying a comeback. We show you how to make it.
Gnocchi or kofteh? I’d always thought of kofteh as meatballs of one kind or another. But in this recipe, I discovered that a dumpling may go by that name too. And how delicious the dumplings – gnocchi – or kofteh are. Based on bulgur and seasoned with spices and herbs, the little hand-rolled mouthfuls cook in […]
Experienced cooks know that vegetables that come into season together often cook up well together. A perfect example for July produce is tomatoes and eggplants. Both have been available throughout the spring and early summer, but it’s right now that you can find the baladi (heirloom) varieties. See our baba ganoush recipe with a baladi […]
From Iraq with love, a great jam with a surprising ingredient.
As earthy as tahini is (or as we say in the Middle East, techinah) the semi-solid paste brightens up with lemon, garlic, herbs and spices. It's great as a dip, but here are some new and surprising ways to eat tehini.
The most hearty and satisfying dish from Morocco that is budget friendly and delicious.
Celebrate a sweet new year with this Jewish recipe for honey cookies, eaten during Rosh Hashannah holidays.