Recipes
Fattoush Lebanese Salad: Fresh Vegetables and Crispy Pita
This iconic Lebanese salad transforms leftover pita bread into crispy shards that crown bright vegetables and tangy sumac dressing.
May 17, 2024
Loading
Search
Results
17 stories for“fresh salad recipe”
Recipes
Authentic Lebanese Tabbouleh: Parsley Salad Proper
The real Lebanese tabbouleh is parsley, not bulgur. Learn the hand-chopping technique and why resting time makes this salad sing.
Jan 10, 2024
Recipes
Chickpea Tuna Salad: Hearty, Plant-Based Texture
Mashed chickpeas replace fish in this quick, protein-packed salad. Tangy, crunchy, and ready in under 10 minutes for lunch.
Jan 12, 2024
Recipes
Fatteh Batinjan: Stale Bread, Fried Aubergine, Garlic Yogurt
A dish built to use up yesterday's bread, assembled in layers while everything is still hot so half the bread softens and half stays crisp. Timing is the whole technique.
Aug 15, 2026
Recipes
Black Bean Sweet Potato Chili: Hearty, One-Pot
A warming chili where sweet potato and black beans do all the work. Spiced simply, it feeds a crowd and freezes beautifully.
Apr 20, 2025
Recipes
Lamb Kabsa: Saudi Arabia's Fragrant Rice and Meat Classic
Saudi Arabia's national dish combines tender lamb with fragrant basmati rice and a warm spice blend. Toasted nuts and raisins add sweetness and crunch to this show-stopping one-pot meal.
Nov 22, 2023
Recipes
Warak Enab Lebanese Stuffed Grape Leaves: Tender and Aromatic
Tender grape leaves stuffed with spiced rice and beef, then simmered in a lemony broth. A patient dish that rewards slow cooking and care.
Jan 30, 2025
Recipes
Ghormeh Sabzi: Persian Herb Stew with Kidney Beans
Iran's unofficial national dish layers fresh herbs, kidney beans, and dried limes into a deeply aromatic stew. Serve it over saffron rice for pure comfort with complexity.
Jan 8, 2025
Recipes
Chicken Shawarma: Oven-Roasted Spiced Chicken at Home
Without the rotating spit, home cooks still achieve restaurant-quality shawarma through high-heat roasting and a broil finish. Marinated, caramelized, and sliceable, it's worthy of your best pita.
Apr 20, 2025
Recipes
Vegan Mushroom Bourguignon: Red Wine Braise
Mushrooms braise in burgundy wine until luxuriously tender. A plant-based answer to beef bourguignon, rich enough for special dinners.
Oct 8, 2024
Recipes
Spanakopita Done Properly: Squeeze the Spinach, Buy Real Feta, and Stop Being Afraid of Filo
The Greek spinach and feta pie fails for two reasons: wet spinach and cheap cheese. Fix both and the filo takes care of itself. A full-tray recipe with dill, spring onions and a properly crisp top, plus the rules for handling the pastry.
Sep 6, 2026
Recipes
Palestinian Food: A Guide to the Dishes, Regions and Rules
Not a single cuisine but several, split between coast, hills and desert. What defines it, which dishes matter, and why so much of it is built on olive oil, wheat and the seasons.
Aug 9, 2026
Latest Trends
Baked Feta Pasta: The TikTok Recipe That Refuses to Die
A Finnish food blogger's oven-baked feta recipe crossed an ocean, hit TikTok two years late, and still hasn't left anyone's dinner rotation.
Nov 20, 2023
Recipes
The Same Beans, Four Countries, Four Different Breakfasts
Egyptian ful is crushed, oily and cumin-heavy. Lebanese ful keeps chickpeas in it and more lemon. Sudanese ful arrives under cheese. The bean is the same and almost nothing else is.
Aug 15, 2026
Recipes
Musakhan: Palestinian Sumac Chicken on Bread That Drinks the Oil
Roast chicken over onions cooked in an amount of olive oil that feels wrong until you taste it, with sumac doing the work salt cannot. A dish built around the olive harvest.
Jul 29, 2026
Recipes
Za'atar Is a Herb, a Blend and an Argument About Land
The same word means a wild hillside herb and the sesame-and-sumac mixture made from it. Knowing which one a recipe means is the difference between a good jar and a disappointing one.
Aug 13, 2026
Recipes
Ful Medames: Breakfast That Has Outlasted Every Empire in Egypt
Fava beans simmered until they collapse, crushed with garlic, lemon and olive oil, eaten out of a bowl with bread. Older than the pyramids by some accounts, and still what Cairo eats at dawn.
Aug 14, 2026
