Middle Eastern Basbousa Recipe
Basbousa is a popular dessert made from semolina that is served in many Middle Eastern and Mediterranean countries. It is infused with syrup and then…
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Gibanica (Cheese Pie) Recipe
Gibanica is a traditional wheat flour pastry filled with soft cheese. The filling may be a soft spreadable cheese such as cottage cheese or soft…
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Turkish Biber Salçasi Recipe
Biber salcasi is a Turkish red condiment made from sweet peppers, salt and lemon juice. The paste has a smoky, but sweet flavor and can…
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Middle Eastern Batata Harra Recipe
Batata harra is a dish of spiced potatoes enjoyed throughout Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey. The potatoes are cut into small pieces and…
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Turkish Kazandibi Recipe
Kazandibi is a Turkish milk dessert. It was traditionally made using chicken breast. Today, it is often replicated without the meat and consists of milk,…
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Turkish Tantuni Recipe
Tantuni is a Turkish street food consisting of marinated beef or lamb, fresh vegetables, and a sauce served in a savory, crispy flatbread. Using onions,…
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Turkish Mercimek Köftesi Recipe
Mercimek Köftesi is a traditional lentil dish from Turkey consisting of red lentils, fine bulgur wheat, onions, tomato paste, red pepper paste, spices and herbs….
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Turkish Lokma Recipe
Lokma is a fried dessert from Turkey made using flour, water, yeast and salt. They are mixed into a runny dough, resembling a batter. The…
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Turkish Mucver Recipe
Mucver is a Turkish dish of vegetable fritters that consist of shredded vegetables, eggs, flour and flavorings like parsley, dill, mint and green onions. The…
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Revani Cake Recipe
Revani is a traditional cake which is popular throughout the Middle East and the Mediterranean. It usually contains, flour, yogurt, eggs, sugar, baking powder and…
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Bamia Recipe (Middle Eastern Okra & Beef Stew)
Bamia is an okra and beef stew popular throughout the Middle East. The meat and okra are cooked together with tomato paste, spices, water and…
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Turkish Dondurma (Stretchy Ice Cream) Recipe
Dondurma, also called Maraş ice cream, refers to all types of Turkish ice cream that include ingredients such as salep (ground-up tuber of an orchid),…
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Turkish Sigara Böreği
Sigara böreği is a crispy Turkish pastry made with a fried phyllo dough crust and stuffed with crumbled Turkish white cheese and parsley. It is…
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Traditional Börek/Burek Recipe
Börek (also known as Burek, Byrek or Boureki) covers a range of pastry dishes made by layering thin phyllo dough, with fillings such as cheese,…
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Turkish Pogača Recipe
Pogača is a yeast free bread, popular throughout Turkey, which usually contains some sort of savory filling. The dough which is made from wheat flour,…
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Authentic Turkish Delight (Lokum) Recipe
Turkish Delight is a type of soft, chewy sweet made from syrup and cornflour, flavored with rosewater and dusted with confectioners’ sugar. Turkish delight may…
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Turkish Sahlab Recipe
Sahlab, also spelled sahlep or salep, is a flour prepared using the tubers of the orchid genus Orchis (including species Orchis mascula and Orchis militaris)….
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Tulumba (Pomba/Bamiyeh) Recipe
Tulumba, also known as bamiyeh, is a deep-fried dessert prepared using an unleavened dough lump, which is shaped as a small ovoid and includes ridges…
