List of Recipes

Aleppine Muhammara

Aniseed Fritters

Apricot Jam

Aubergine and Rice Cake

Aubergine Pastries

Baklava

Burghul with Chickpeas and Pork Belly

Cabbage and Tomato Salad

Camel Kebabs

Candyfloss

Caramelised Milk Pudding

Caraway and Cinnamon Pudding

Chelow Kebab

Chicken Fatteh

Chicken Kebabs

Chicken Shawarma

Chicken with Frikeh

Chickpea Fatteh

Citrusy Petits Pois, Carrot and Lamb Stew

Cold Octopus Salad

Courgette Omelettes

Couscous Sandwiches

Cream Triangles

Curing Olives

Date Cookies

Drying Fruit, Nuts and Vegetables

Dumplings in Yoghurt Sauce

Eskenderun’s Shanklish Salad

Fûl Medammes

Falafel Sandwiches

Fig Jam

Fish in Tahini Sauce

Fragrant Shortbread Biscuits

Fried Eggs with Sumac

Fried Mussels

Grape Leather and Sweet Walnut ‘Sausages’

Green Beans in Tomato Sauce

Grilled Aubergine Salad with Tahini Sauce

Halva

Halva

Iranian ‘Churros’

Iranian Almond Pastries

Iranian Chickpea Shortbread

Iranian Elephant’s Ears

Iranian Minced Meat Kebabs

Iranian Minced Meat Kebabs

Iranian Saffron Ice Cream

Iranian sugar syrup

Jellab

Kellage

Khawali Hommus

Kibbeh Balls in Yoghurt Sauce

Kibbeh Balls with Quince in a Fresh Pomegranate Sauce

Kibbeh in Sumac Sauce

Kibbeh Pie

Kibbeh Sandwiches

Kishk

Lamb Cooked in its Mother’s Milk

Lamb Shawarma

Las Salinas Bread Salad

Lebanese ‘Pizza’

Lebanese Fatayer

Lebanese Morning Bread

Lebanese Sesame Galettes

Lebanese Steak Tartare

Lebanese Sugar Syrup

Lemony Lentils with Pasta and Croutons

Lemony Swiss Chard and Lentil Soup

Lentil Kibbeh

Lentils and Aubergines Cooked in Pomegranate Juice

Levantine Bread Salad

Making Qawarma

Mango Ice Cream

Mansaf

Meat and Grain Porridge

Meat Kebabs in Cherry Sauce

Milk Pudding

Mini Dumplings and Meatballs Soup

Minty Labneh Dip

Mixed Pulses and Grains Soup

Mohamed’s Muhammara

Mushy Lentils and Rice

Noodle Soup

Olives Marinated with Walnuts, Herbs and Pomegranate Syrup

Omelette Sandwiches

Pepper Paste

Pickled Aubergines Four Ways

Pickled Turnips

Pickling Solution

Pistachio Cookies with a Sweet Dip

Pistachio Ice Cream

Pistachio Kebabs

Pita Bread

Plain Rice

Pumpkin Dip

Quince Jam

Ramadan Bread with Dates

Raw Kibbeh with a Spicy Burghul and Herb Topping

Rice and Lentils

Rice Pudding

Round Fritters

Salep

Sesame Cookies

Sesame Galettes

Shanklish

Shish Kebabs

Siddiq’s Kibbeh

Spiced Turkish Wheat Pudding

Spicy Fish

Spicy Pita

Spinach Börek

Stewed Lamb on a Purée of Smoky Aubergines

Sticky Sponge Cake

Strained Yoghurt Balls

Strained Yoghurt

Stuffed Aubergines Fatteh

Stuffed Breast of Lamb

Stuffed Courgettes and Aubergines

Stuffed Mussels

Stuffed Pancakes

Stuffed Swiss Chard

Stuffed Tripe

Stuffed Vine Leaves on a Bed of Lamb Chops

Sugar Syrup

Sumac Chicken Wraps

Sweet Cheese and Semolina

Sweet Holy Bread

Sweet Pistachio Pie

Sweet Walnut Coil

Syrian Fatayer

Syrian Ice Cream

Tabbuleh

Tannur Bread

The Lady’s Wrists

Tomato Paste

Turkish ‘Andouillette’

Turkish Bread

Turkish Burghul Salad

Turkish Cheese Pie

Turkish Coffee

Turkish Kebabs

Turkish Meat Börek

Turkish Pistachio and Cream Pie

Turkish Semolina Cake

Turkish Sesame Galettes

Turkish sugar syrup

Turkish Wheat, Pulses, Dried Fruit and Nut Pudding

Various Vegetable Pickles

Vermicelli Rice

Walnut Cookies

Wheat and Meat Porridge

Wild Chicory in Olive Oil with Caramelised Onions

Yellow Cake

Yoghurt and Cucumber Dip

Yufka