Lockdown lunches 6: Topped homous
New year, new lockdown 🔐 and I think I can definitely say, with the weather so rubbish, the news this bleak and the incessant ‘new year new me’ TV and…
Category: The Middle East & Africa
The place of my birth, Israel, always holds a special place in my heart. The varied and incredibly delicious cuisines found here taste like home, and are increasingly finding fans in the UK too. The flavours of the Middle East always have a home in our kitchen, from fragrant orange blossom and rose water to jewel coloured pistachio and pomegranate seeds. Just as beautiful as they are delicious, here are our top Middle Eastern recipes.
Lockdown lunches portion 1: Moroccan vegetable tagine
With that in mind, I’m curating a series of mini recipes, super simple, customisable and totally delicious that have become my staple choices through lockdowns with a little one. Hope…
Passover, Intrepid foodies style
Any occasion where exciting and different food is cooked, eaten and experienced with great company is a good one in our book, and Passover or Pesach as we say it…
Orange blossom, almond and semolina cake
Up until very lately we hadn’t been much interested in baking in our household, as we don’t have that great a sweet tooth. But recently, we’ve been doing more and…
Balkan shakshuka
Shakshuka is a beautiful dish of North African origins, basically consisting of baked eggs in a rich, spiced tomato sauce. My love affair with this dish goes back to my…
Bright beetroot butterbean dip
It’s cold and rainy outside (well it certainly is here in Manchester!) so here’s something quick, easy, healthy and wonderfully colourful to brighten up your day. This is the first of…
Grilled Harissa Mackerel
We’ve been exploring a lot of Asian flavours lately, inspired no doubt still by Japanese travels. But the food of North Africa and the Middle East is still close to…
Cheese Borekas
Originally from Turkey, these fantastic pastries are the tasty snack of choice in Israel, where I was born. There are lots of kinds, fillings and shapes but my favourites…
My Middle Eastern meatballs and tabbouleh
Having been born in the Middle East I grew up with the flavours of chickpeas, sesame, lemon juice and copious amounts of parsley from birth. It is maybe because of…
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