Middle Eastern Dinner
A Middle Eastern dinner is hospitality at scale — a long mezze, a roast lamb shoulder, rice with herbs and crust, sweet pastries to close. Samira Aoun: the moment before the meal begins is the moment.
Featured middle eastern dinner recipes
- Why pomegranate is the most Middle Eastern fruit — Fatima Saadeh · Ramallah, Palestine · Fatima: the fruit that connects Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey. Identity in seeds.
- Lamb on a vertical spit, since 1860 — Tarek Habib · Istanbul, Turkey · Tarek: from Ottoman Istanbul to Berlin to London. The architecture stayed.
- Lamb shoulder with seven spices — Iris · Beirut, Lebanon · Slow-roasted, allspice-led, citrus-finished, on a bed of rice and pine nuts.
- Fesenjan, walnut-pomegranate — Darius Ahmadi · Tehran, Iran · Darius: chicken or duck in a slow walnut-and-pomegranate-molasses sauce.
- Kafta bil tahini — Iris · Beirut, Lebanon · Spiced lamb meatballs baked in tahini sauce, lemon, pine nuts.
- Maqlouba, upside-down — Fatima Saadeh · Ramallah, Palestine · Fatima: rice layered with eggplant and chicken, flipped at the table.
- Dolma, grape leaves — Iris · Damascus, Syria · Lamb-rice filling, lemon-broth braise, the grape leaf rolled tight.
- Jujeh kebab, saffron chicken — Darius Ahmadi · Tehran, Iran · Darius: yogurt, lemon, saffron marinade, charcoal grill.
- Tahini-baked fish — Iris · Beirut, Lebanon · Whole fish, tahini-onion sauce, pine nuts, the slow oven.
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