Feasts From the Middle East

ARTICHOKE & TAHINA SOUP (#litres_trial_promo)

PUMPKIN & SAFFRON SOUP (#litres_trial_promo)

TOMATO & MINT SOUP (#litres_trial_promo)

LEBANESE CHICKEN SOUP (#litres_trial_promo)

LAMB & ARTICHOKE STEW (#litres_trial_promo)

SPICED LAMB KOFTAS WITH POTATOES & TOMATOES (#litres_trial_promo)

BABY AUBERGINES WITH SPICED MINCED LAMB & TAHINA (#litres_trial_promo)

STUFFED COURGETTES IN A YOGHURT SAUCE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHICKPEAS WITH YOGHURT & TAHINA SAUCE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHICKEN & CHICKPEA STEW (#litres_trial_promo)

POTATO & SPICED MINCED LAMB PIE (#litres_trial_promo)

GRAINS & PULSES (#litres_trial_promo)

STUFFED PEPPERS WITH SPICED RICE & LAMB (#litres_trial_promo)

PALESTINIAN SPICED RICE WITH CHICKEN (#litres_trial_promo)

GREEN LENTIL & RICE SALAD (#litres_trial_promo)

BULGAR WHEAT WITH CHICKEN (#litres_trial_promo)

BULGAR WHEAT & SPICED MINCED LAMB PIE (#litres_trial_promo)

STUFFED SWISS CHARD WITH SPICED RICE & VEGETABLES (#litres_trial_promo)

FREEKEH WITH CHICKEN (#litres_trial_promo)

BULGAR WHEAT & TOMATO SALAD (#litres_trial_promo)

STUFFED CABBAGE LEAVES WITH SPICED MINCED LAMB & RICE (#litres_trial_promo)

GIANT COUSCOUS WITH CHICKEN (#litres_trial_promo)

DESSERTS & DRINKS (#litres_trial_promo)

SHREDDED FILO & CHEESE PUDDING WITH A ROSE–HONEY SYRUP (#litres_trial_promo)

TAHINA, CHOCOLATE & PISTACHIO CHEESECAKE (#litres_trial_promo)

POMEGRANATE & PISTACHIO CHEESECAKE (#litres_trial_promo)

ROSE MOUHALABIAH WITH SUMMER FRUIT COMPOTE (#litres_trial_promo)

SWEET POTATO & TAHINA PUDDING (#litres_trial_promo)

SEMOLINA, ALMOND & ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY CAKE (#litres_trial_promo)

CRISP FILO PARCELS WITH CREAM & ROSE WATER (#litres_trial_promo)

ZALLABIA (#litres_trial_promo)

FIG, HALLOUMI & PISTACHIO TART (#litres_trial_promo)

WALNUT & CINNAMON HONEY CIGARS (#litres_trial_promo)

GLUTEN-FREE ORANGE & ALMOND CAKE (#litres_trial_promo)

MY ROASTED AUBERGINE, ROSE, HONEY & LABNEH TART (#litres_trial_promo)

FRESH MINT & ORANGE BLOSSOM TEA (#litres_trial_promo)

CAFÉ BLANC (#litres_trial_promo)

SAHLAB (#litres_trial_promo)

COMPTOIR SPICED HOT CHOCOLATE WITH TAHINA & HALVA (#litres_trial_promo)

DATE, ALMOND, ORANGE BLOSSOM & LABNEH SMOOTHIE (#litres_trial_promo)

WATERMELON LEMONADE (#litres_trial_promo)

FROZEN MINT LEMONADE (#litres_trial_promo)

VANILLA CITRONNADE (#litres_trial_promo)

LEBANESE LEMONADE (#litres_trial_promo)

FEAST MENUS (#litres_trial_promo)

LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS (#litres_trial_promo)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER (#litres_trial_promo)

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I like food – in fact, I love food. I love absolutely everything about food: the smells, the tastes, the colours, the way it makes people happy. A simple smell can take me back to the markets I used to go to with my dad and grandad to buy ingredients for my mum. Or it can transport me back to walking home from school, smelling the food in the air when I was close to home. I remember men walking the streets with their carts of sardines shouting, ‘Yalla sardine!’ and everybody going out to buy them. Every family cooked and flavoured them differently. We’d eat at home and then take the leftovers outside to swap with our friends. I can recall the aroma of fruit ripening on the trees, too. To this day, no matter where I am, a new-season fig will make me close my eyes to savour that first bite, longing to be six years old again, back in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria.