This collection of authentic Middle Eastern Recipes highlights the wide variety their cuisines and cooking techniques. We love this essential homemade hummus:

These Middle Eastern tofu kebabs are my new favourite quick and easy week day dinner. They're ready in no time and you can enjoy leftovers as a nutritious and protein packed snack!

Embark on a culinary journey to the heart of the Middle East with Majestic Maqluba, an aromatic and savory upside-down rice casserole. This traditional dish, beloved for its layers of spiced meat, vegetables, and fluffy rice, is a feast for the senses. Its unique preparation ends in a dramatic flip, revealing a beautifully layered and fragrant meal that's as delightful to behold as it is to devour.

Updating your morning fried eggs with these flavorful Za'atar Eggs...healthy, easy, and served up with lemony yogurt and smoky fiery chili oil!

A bit of a Middle Eastern feast today... Once I tried Michael Solomonov's hummus (Israeli-Philadelphia based chef of Zahav), I've realized that not all

Fatayer is a baked savory pie that is popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines.

Seasoned flavorful Middle Eastern Chicken with turmeric rice is a meal the whole family will love. It’s super easy to make, and makes a great weeknight meal because it’s fast to prepare and all made in one pot. The ultimate comfort food, but with a healthy twist!

Chicken Machboos, or Machboos ala Dajaj (spiced chicken and rice), is considered the national dish of Bahrain. Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in Western Asia. Some of the key ingredients in Chicken Machboos is skin-on chicken, rice, lime and ghee, or clarified...

Arayes are a classic middle eastern street food. Pita bread, stuffed with spiced ground beef and grilled (or baked) to perfection. Enjoy them with a yogurt or tahini dipping sauce as a lunch or light dinner! They are quick and perfect for using up some ground beef.

One of the incredible street foods of the Middle Eastern world, this falafel recipe is the authentic one to try.

This Middle Eastern lamb shoulder is slow-cooked with fragrant spices and fruit chutney until it melts in your mouth. It’s a stunning winter dinner.

In this delicious Middle Eastern dish, popular in Turkey, Armenia, Lebanon, Syria and other Middle Eastern regions, also known as Lahmacun, Lahmajo, Turkish

Middle Eastern style meatballs - These juicy flavor-packed meatballs are made in 30 minutes and are great with a side of rice, made into delicious sandwiches, or a great protein on your salads. I seasoned the meatballs with warm spices, added pine nuts for some crunch, and baked them on a bed of onion sumac.

This Middle Eastern Lamb Flatbread is a favorite. Homemade flatbread with sesame seeds sprinkled around the edges and topped with a flavor packed spiced ground lamb mixture and baked to golden perfection. So Delicious! You can also make these with any store bought flatbread too. This post is brought to you by AMERICAN LAMB BOARD.

Basbousa is one of the most popular Middle Eastern cakes. It is made of coarse semolina flour and sweetened by simple syrup. It comes together effortlesly and is always a crowd-pleaser.

This is the easiest shortbread cookie you will ever make! Just 4 ingredients and you will have a delicious melt in your mouth cookie.

Luqaimat are delicious Middle Eastern fried mini doughnuts, very popular in Ramadan, and doused in a fragrant sugar syrup. SO good!

Begin this recipe two days ahead.

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These Middle Eastern meat stuffed pita bread are the perfect bite. The pita is crunchy and the filling is well seasoned and tender. It is an addicting bite.

I can't say with certainty that this is authentic because it's a recipe I created. But it uses classic Middle Eastern ingredients, so possibly it is! The lamb is really juicy because it's made with lamb shoulder, a cut that is made for slow cooking. The pan frying step to get the crunchy brown bits is not optional - it's key! ! ! As with any shredded meat recipe, a little goes a long way. This makes around 8 cups of shredded lamb which I think is enough to serve 8 people as a main (with rice). See separate recipe below for Chickpea Pilaf (Rice).

It's too bad that so many people are only familiar with Middle Eastern pastries that aren't so well made. If you sample them far from where they originate, often they're made with old or stale nuts, they've sat around too long in plastic packages, or the cheeses aren't exactly fresh. While it's true that some of them can be a bit sticky-sweet for Western tastes,

The vegan version of kunafa (knafeh), a traditional Middle-Eastern shredded phyllo dough and sweet cheese dessert, soaked in orange blossom syrup and topped with pistachios!

These buttery, flaky, Middle Eastern lamb puff pastry triangles are the perfect snack or appetizer to make. I grew up enjoying these Middle Eastern lamb puff pastry triangles during special occasions, and they were always irresistibly good! These flakey savory pastries come together so quickly thanks to the help of store-bought puff pastry sheets. This

This right here is one of my favorite Middle Eastern rice dishes. I love the taste of the aromatic spices that goes into it. It is also so simple to make. Yes, every person may have their own way of making it. This is my Mama’s way and we all love it. Since, I am...