Category Archives: Beets

Cheese Cigars with beet greens (R’kakat bel-jebneh)

A quick version of a delicious but  time-consuming  recipe. I found these pre-cut sheets of a very thin, phyllo-like bread in the freezer section at the middle-easern store and grabbed them. They are imported from Turkey and evidently used in Turkish cuisine. In our cuisine, we have a pastry that is similar to phyllo, stuffed [...]
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Beet and Orange salad (Salatat Shmandar wBurtukal)

I  was watching Chef Elie on Soufra Daymeh, the daily cooking segment on LBC; he made a similar salad.  Beets are so healthy to eat, since they almost cure you of all major diseases (anemia, cancer and the like); I vote to have all American public schools ban tater tots from their cafeterias and replace [...]
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Beet salad (Salatat Shmandar)

      Beets were not my favorite vegetables growing up. I found them too messy and not that interesting. I simply ate them because they were on the plate. So it was not until recently that I started paying attention to beets, when I found out that they could lower blood pressure and were amongst the ten [...]
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