🍲 Middle Eastern recipes

Chickpeas, yoghurt, sesame and grilled meat: the cooking of the Levant and beyond.

The 24 dishes on this shelf

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Hummus I

2

Baba Ganoush

15 minutes · serves 10 · 2

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Kibbeh

3

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Tabbouleh I

serves 8 · 2

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Baked Chicken with Onions, Sumac and Allspice (Musakhan)

serves 3 · 3

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Ayran (Turkish Yogurt Drink)

5 minutes · serves 1 · 1

Bint as-Saḥn (Yemenite Layered Pastry)

1 hour + · serves 10 · 3

Döner Kebab

4–5 hours

Ka'ak (Savory Ring-Shaped Biscuit)

45–50 minutes · serves 42 · 2

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Koshary (Egyptian Pasta Salad with Rice and Lentils)

serves 7 · 2

Kubaneh (Yemenite Pull-Apart Bread)

3 hours · serves 8 · 3

Lahoh (Spongy Flatbread) I

15–20 minutes · serves 9 · 2

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Lahoh (Spongy Flatbread) II

3

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Ma'amoul (Arabian Filled Pastries)

3

Malawach (Flaky Flatbread)

4–5 minutes · serves 12 · 3

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Middle Eastern Meatballs

1 hour · serves 6 · 3

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Persian Apple Dessert

serves 3 · 1

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Pita

serves 8 · 3

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Pudding with Pistachios and Rose Water (Muhallebi)

1 hour · serves 10 · 2

Rice and Lentils (Mejadra)

30 minutes · serves 4 · 2

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Sabich (Vegetable and Pita Sandwich)

3

Saj Bread I

10–15 minutes · serves 5 · 2

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Seafood Kebabs with Zhoug Sauce

120 minutes · serves 8 · 3

Shakshuka I

3

24 recipes read from the Wikibooks Cookbook (CC BY-SA 4.0) · retrieved 28 Oct 2026 UTC. Each dish names the page it was taken from.

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