Tag Archives: garlic

Spaghetti with yogurt and cilantro pesto sauce (Ma’acaroni bel-laban)

This is a homestyle dish combining  a little pasta and the dairy always  on hand, yogurt! Not the kind of dish likely to figure on the menu of a Lebanese restaurant in Sydney or Washington or Paris, but ours nevertheless and highly ingrained in our culinary habits. To liven up the yogurt sauce a [...]
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Cauliflower with tarator sauce

Some women like to buy new shoes or earrings; I like to buy cool-looking veggies. I thought these purple and yellow cauliflower would make Dali proud. In any case, cauliflower in Lebanese cuisine are blanched then fried then served with a tarator sauce. I did not fry them, merely roasted them with a bit of [...]
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Fava bean and yogurt stew over Basmati rice

In the Near East, everybody is crazy about fava beans; it’s my mother’s favorite dish. In our family, fava beans were made in a yogurt-based stew with lamb shanks.  I grabbed a bag of frozen fava beans from the Palestinian grocer; these  are imported from Egypt ( fava beans are a staple food in Egypt). [...]
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