Easy & Stylish Egyptian Recipes
Batata Harra is a plant-based, spicy, Lebanese potato salad that is best served hot. It is a delectable mezzah that also makes a perfect side dish. Its golden hues will brighten up your menu.
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Samak Bel Rada is an easy Egyptian Bran-coated fish dish that bursts with Mediterranean flavors and carries a memorable smokey note.
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Bhatura is a puffy Indian flat bread made with all purpose flour. Ramita Anand fondly shares her mother’s recipe for bhatura with us.
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Food Blogger Marian Guirguis @marianjoyfulkitchen is sharing at Chez Nermine her recipe of Festive Traditional Egyptian cookies known as Petit Four. Not to confuse them with French Petit Four, these melt-in-your-mouth cookies are close to Western butter cookies.
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Tabakh Roho is a mint-spiked lamb and vegetable stew that hails from Damascus, Syria. The Arabic name, Tabakh Roho, means self-cooked, which alludes to how easy this dish is to fix.
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Chili Crab is unofficially the national dish of Singapore. It is a chilli-spiked, simmering vibrant tomato sauce where a handsome orange and sizeable crab nesting happily in her new habitat, mingling with this luscious sauce. Typically, this Singaporean dish is served with fried Mantou buns, which help soak up the luscious sauce to the last drop.
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Dahdah is a vibrant Jordanian dessert that is not crunchy, nor cakey. It tastes like a large crumbly cookie that collapses once you bite into it. The pungency of the cinnamon notes definitely gives it an edge and pairs well with the walnut. The addition of turmeric lends the cake its vibrant, happy color
This dessert is put together in no time if you crush the roasted walnuts and clarify your butter in advance. Having said this, store-bought clarified butter will do just fine.
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Peanut Butter-Chocolate Cookies is a recipe adapted from the French book: Le Grand Livre Marabout de La Patisserie Facile. It is a rich buttery cookie that comes plain in the original French recipe. My take on these was to half-dip them or drizzle with bitter dark chocolate to cut through the buttery, rich texture. For some crunch, the cookies are sprinkled with some salted peanuts that stud the warm chocolate before it sets! You bite into those cookies and they just burst and then melt in your mouth in a blink of an eye.Â
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