Lebanese & Levantine recipes
38 Lebanese & Levantine recipes for a home kitchen, from 10 minutes. Have some of the ingredients already? Match them to what you have.
Dinner
25 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Cumin oyster mushroom skewers with lemon yogurt
Mushrooms torn into strips, spiced, and broiled until the edges crisp. A cold lemon yogurt to dip them in.
30 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Lemon and cumin lamb skewers
Ground lamb spiced with cumin and garlic, shaped on skewers and broiled. Serve with cool yogurt and lemon.
35 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Broiled shawarma-spiced chicken
Boneless thighs coated in a garlicky yogurt shawarma marinade and blasted under the broiler until charred at the edges. Serve with pita, onions and tahini.
35 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Sheet-pan chicken shawarma pitas
Spiced chicken strips roasted on one tray and tucked into warm pitas with cucumber and a lemony yogurt.
35 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Lamb kofta with yogurt sauce
Spiced lamb skewers with onion, parsley and cumin, grilled or broiled and served with garlic yogurt.
40 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Red lentil soup with preserved lemon
Simple, healthy Palestinian-style lentil soup with cumin and onion, brightened with chopped preserved lemon. Includes quick preserved lemons.
40 min
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Shish tawook
Lebanese chicken skewers marinated in yogurt, lemon, garlic and paprika, grilled and served with toum.
45 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Green herb falafel with tahini
Proper falafel from soaked dried chickpeas, packed with parsley and cilantro. Start the night before.
45 min
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Pomegranate-molasses braised lamb shoulder
A whole bone-in lamb shoulder rubbed with garlic and spices, braised low and slow, and glazed with pomegranate molasses until falling-apart tender. Serve with chickpeas and rice.
45 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Kubbeh Halab rice croquettes
Turmeric-yellow mashed rice wrapped around spiced ground beef and onion, shaped into ovals and pan-fried until crisp. Warm allspice flavor inside a golden shell.
45 min
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Pomegranate-glazed chicken
Roasted chicken thighs lacquered with pomegranate molasses, garlic and cumin.
60 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Riz a jej (Lebanese chicken and spiced rice)
Rice cooked with spiced ground meat and baharat, topped with shredded chicken and a crunchy mix of fried nuts and seeds.
60 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Chicken kofta with hummus and baba ganoush
Herby, spiced ground chicken kofta skewers grilled until charred, served with creamy hummus, smoky baba ganoush and pink pickled turnips.
60 min
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Mujadara
Brown lentils and rice cooked with cumin and topped with lots of deeply caramelized onions.
90 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Baked kibbeh (kibbeh bil sanieh)
Lebanese bulgur-and-beef shell layered around spiced beef, onion and pine nuts, scored and baked.
120 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Maqluba (upside-down rice)
Palestinian layered pot of spiced chicken, fried eggplant and cauliflower, and rice, flipped onto a platter.
150 min
Lebanese & Levantine · dinner
Mansaf
Jordan's celebration dish: lamb cooked in tangy jameed yogurt sauce over rice and flatbread, with almonds and pine nuts.
Lunch & snacks
15 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Lemon tahini hummus
A smooth, fluffy chickpea dip made with tahini and lemon and topped with olive oil.
15 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Muhammara
Smoky roasted red pepper and walnut dip with pomegranate molasses.
20 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Warm chunky hummus with green chile
Hummus served warm and rough instead of smooth, with a jalapeño and cilantro oil spooned on top.
20 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Za'atar romaine with toasted pita
Romaine, cucumber and tomato in a lemony za'atar dressing, with crumbled feta and brittle toasted pita shards for crunch.
25 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Parsley and bulgur tabbouleh
A herb-heavy salad built on finely chopped parsley with mint, tomato, scallion and a little bulgur, dressed in lemon and oil.
25 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Fattoush
Lebanese chopped salad with crisp pita, sumac and a lemon-pomegranate dressing.
30 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Tabbouleh
A bright parsley-forward salad with a little bulgur, tomato, mint and lemon.
30 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Hummus fatteh
Layers of crisp pita, warm chickpeas and garlicky tahini yogurt, topped with pine nuts toasted in butter.
35 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Red lentil and carrot soup
Cheap, warming and done in one pot. Freezes well.
40 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Roasted eggplant dip with pomegranate
Oven-collapsed eggplant mashed with tahini and lemon. Pomegranate seeds make it look like you tried harder than you did.
40 min
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Charcoal-charred baba ganoush
Whole eggplants charred directly in hot coals until collapsed and smoky, then whipped with tahini, lemon and garlic.
40 min
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Fluke kibbeh naye with schug and sumac onions
A seafood take on the Levantine raw kibbeh: chopped fresh fluke mixed with fine bulgur and spices, topped with green schug and sumac onions, with herbs and pita chips.
40 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Sumac chicken and onion flatbreads
Roasted chicken thighs and slowly softened red onions seasoned with sumac, piled on warm flatbreads with toasted pine nuts. A Palestinian classic that is tangy and rich.
45 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Roasted eggplant baba ganoush
A smoky roasted eggplant dip mashed with tahini, lemon and garlic.
45 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Batata harra (Lebanese spicy potatoes)
Crisp potato cubes tossed with garlic, cilantro, chili and lemon.
60 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Lebanese chicken shawarma with toum
Thighs and breasts marinated in whole blended orange and lemon, garlic, warm spices and yogurt, roasted and charred, wrapped with fluffy garlic sauce.
60 min
Lebanese & Levantine · lunch
Lebanese lamb and soujouk crunchwrap
A giant folded wrap stuffed with crispy lamb, spiced soujouk sausage, garlicky cilantro potatoes, cheddar, pita chips, toum and pomegranate molasses, toasted until crisp.
Breakfast
Baking & sweets
40 min
Lebanese & Levantine · baking
Homemade pita bread
Soft, puffy pitas from a simple yeasted dough, baked on a hot sheet pan or stone so they balloon and form a pocket.
60 min
Lebanese & Levantine · baking
Knafeh
Crisp buttery kataifi pastry over stretchy sweet cheese, soaked in orange blossom syrup and topped with pistachios.
Drinks
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