Middle Eastern
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Vegan dinner recipes
Aubergine, tomato and chickpea traybake
Food writer Elly Pear's aubergine, tomato and chickpea traybake is one of her favourite recipes from her vegetarian cookbook Green.
Loaf cake recipes
Pomegranate loaf cake
Try this beautiful yet easy-to-make almond and polenta loaf cake drizzled with fresh pomegranate juice and seeds. An afternoon tea recipe with a difference.
Roast chicken recipes
Pomegranate and za’atar roast chicken
A chicken roasted in za'atar and pomegranate juice – served with a cucumber, radish and walnut salad – makes a surprising difference to your usual Sunday roast recipe.
Rice pudding recipes
Rice pudding with honey soaked fruit and pistachios
This rice pudding recipe is made with coffee making this a grown-up treat. The sweetness of the honey-soaked fruit cuts through the richness.
Midweek meal recipes
Quick pork koftas with slaw
These easy-to-make pork koftas, with pork mince, garlic, apple and chilli, are a brilliant and quick idea for dinner and can easily be doubled to feed 4
Quick and easy lamb recipes
Griddled lamb steaks with date, spinach and pistachio bulgur wheat
There's wonderful North Africa flavours in this griddled lamb recipe. Served with a date, spinach and pistachio bulgur wheat salad, it's impressive but oh-so easy to make.
Salmon fillet recipes
Glazed salmon with giant couscous
Pomegranate molasses adds sticky sweetness to glazes and marinades which is why we've used it to add instant flavour to this glazed salmon recipe.
Baked egg recipes
Shakshuka with broad beans and labneh
Naomi Devlin adds broad beans and artichokes to her shakshuka, but you can try French beans, steamed kale, chard or fresh peas.
Quinoa recipes
Warm quinoa salad with broad beans and pomegranate
Top this Middle Eastern-style vegetarian quinoa salad, by vegetarian cookery book writer Rose Eliot, with halloumi, houmous, feta or avocado.
Upside-down cake recipes
John Whaite’s fig upside-down sandwich cake
Studded with fresh figs, raspberries, pistachios and Turkish delight – John Whaite's upside-down sandwich cake brings something different to afternoon tea.
Flatbread recipes
Warm flatbreads with herb butter
Warm flatbreads, drizzled with a lemony herb butter and scattered with chilli flakes, are the perfect side for any Middle Eastern meal.
Tahini recipes
Spiced lamb meatballs with tahini-dressed bulgur wheat
These spiced lamb meatballs for two people make a great midweek meal served with the tahini-dressed bulgur wheat and herb salad.
Vegetarian brunch recipes
Turkish menemen with sumac yogurt
This baked eggs recipe is all about the spice! The fragrant tomato sauce is bursting with cumin and fresh ginger and drizzled in a zesty sumac yoghurt sauce
Flatbread recipes
Crispy dukka flatbreads with herbed houmous
This simple north African-inspired recipe of dukka flatbreads, with a herby houmous, makes a scrummy starter, canape or side dish.
Zahtar spiced nuts
This Lebanese-inspired recipe for herby, spiced nuts makes for an excellent nibble to have with drinks. Use whatever blend of nuts you like.
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