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  • Ashkenazi cholent – Shabbat overnight stew

    When I was growing up in Israel, every shabbat ...

  • Braised brisket with root vegetables & prunes

    Ashkenazi Jews specialize in making the ...

  • Bukharian rice dish with herbs and beef (bakhsh)

    Bukhara is an ancient city in today's Uzbekistan ...

  • Bukharian rice, meat and dried fruit stew for Shabbat (Oshisavo)

    Oshisavo (or Yoshi save or Âsh-i Sabbâh, ...

  • Bulgarian / Romanian rustic vegetable stew (guvech)

    Looking for a Shabbat dinner centerpiece ...

  • Butternut Squash, Chicken and Harissa Rice

    A fall variation of a classic Palestinian ...

  • Chicken in red wine and orange

  • Chicken, potato and eggplant in pomegranate and date syrup

    This recipe is influenced by traditional ...

  • Deconstructed Niçoise Salad

    Tunisian fricassee sandwich is made with ...

  • Egg Noodles with poppy seeds and walnut

    The pasta dish is a savory take on a Hungarian ...

  • Eggplant & cheese sambousak (Abouelafia style)

    Every time I visit Israel I simply can’t ...

  • Eggplant and goat cheese lasagna

    This recipe is not a traditional one in ...

  • Eggplant stuffed with lamb, pomegranate and tamarind

    Originally a Turkish recipe, my version ...

  • Fish kebab with artichoke and fava bean

    Spring is a wonderful time, if only for ...

  • Gravlax

    Gravlax is cured salmon from Scandinavia, ...

  • Grilled pita with kebab (arayes)

     Arayes is a Lebanese and Palestinian ...

  • Hamin macaroni

    Hamin macaroni is a Sephardi Shabbat recipe ...

  • Hungarian stuffed cabbage

     Stuffed cabbage recipes are found ...

  • Iraqi meatballs in sweet and sour apricot-tomato sauce

    My great-aunt Victoria (Toya) Levy was an ...

  • Iraqi stuffed onions and tomatoes

    My grandmother Rachel was a gifted cook. ...

  • Iraqi style eggplant, egg and mango chutney sandwich (sabich)

    Sabich is a highly popular street food in ...

  • Iraqi-Kurdish kubbeh (beef or vegan stuffed dumplings) in beet soup (plus video)

    Kubbeh soups may be the highlight of the ...

  • Israeli grilled lemon chicken wings

    The recipe for these lemon marinated chicken ...

  • Israeli style schnitzel

    Chicken breast schnitzel is Israeli kids' ...

  • Khoresht fesenjan – Persian chicken, pomegranate and walnut stew

    Khoresht fesenjan is one of the most beloved ...

  • Kubbeh batata

    From my grandmother’s Iraqi kitchen, fried ...

  • Lamb Kebab in Tahini Sauce or Jews and Muslims Break Bread Together at Iftar Feast

    “At 8:11 the sun will set and all the ...

  • Lamb shoulder with spring vegetables

    "You shall have a perfect male lamb in its ...

  • Meatballs in spring vegetables and oregano-lemon sauce

     This dish celebrates spring abundance ...

  • Middle Eastern lamb and pistachio kebab

    Kebab (or kifteh) is probably the most popular ...

  • Moroccan chicken in olive, tomato and lemon

    Chicken cooked in a rich sauce of tomatoes ...

  • Moroccan chickpea and meat Shabbat stew (adafina/s’heena)

    Moroccan and Tunisian adafina (or dafina, ...

  • Moroccan Harirra Soup

    Harrira soup recipe is included

  • Moroccan pastilla 

     Pastilla is a phyllo dough pastry stuffed ...

  • Oshpelo, Uzbeki lamb, carrot and rice dish

    Oshpelo, (also osh or plov,) is Uzbekistan’s ...

  • Persian beef, herb, kidney bean and dried lime stew (ghormeh sabzi)

     To make this delicious stew vegan, ...

  • Persian quince, prune and beef stew (khoresh e beh)

    This wonderful member of the Persian stew ...

  • Rainbow trout over tomato, beans and arak salad

    The tomato, cannellini beans and arak salad ...

  • Ratatouille with polenta

    One of my favorite meals ever is this rustic ...

  • Roasted salmon with preserved lemon & olives salsa

    Preserved lemon works really well in most ...

  • Schnitzel and harissa in challah roll

    The new it street food in Israel

  • Sephardi chestnut, rice and lamb plov

    Cooler weather and falling leaves bring ...

  • Sephardi chicken and potato stew (Sofrito)

    In Latin America and Spain, sofrito is a ...

  • Sephardi fish in lemon and egg sauce (Pescado con limon y huevo)

    Pescado con lemon y huevo is a Sephardi ...

  • Sirloin shishlik with dried apricot

    Shishlik or shashlik are skewers of meat ...

  • Stuffed artichoke bottoms

    Since Passover arrives in spring, it is ...

  • Stuffed Swiss chard

    It is customary to serve stuffed vegetables ...

  • Tbeet, a Jewish-Iraqi Shabbat overnight stew of chicken and rice

    In her modest, shack-like home in southern ...

  • The Many Uses of Tahini

    With hummus consumption in America sky rocketing, ...

  • The Power of Couscous

    Einat Admony is an Israeli chef known for ...

  • This Sukkot, Celebrate the Fall Harvest With Stuffed Squash

    The Festival of Tabernacles is about showing ...

  • Tunisian fish in spicy sauce (chraimeh)

     Chaimeh is a classic recipe from the Tunisian ...

  • Tunisian meat stuffed potato (mafroum, m’battan batata)

    Mafroum is an irresistible dish of meat ...

  • Tunisian Swiss chard stew (pkaila)

    Pkaila is a Jewish Tunisian dish that starts ...

  • Tunisian tuna and preserved lemon sandwich

     Imagine a large bread roll stuffed ...

  • Tunisian wheat overnight stew (hareesa)

    Hareesa is a Tunisian Shabbat overnight ...

  • Vegan cholent

    Cholent is that famous Ashkenazy Shabbat ...