Tag Archives: turmeric

Pumpkin, taro and chicken soup

Thank God for soups! I love them, don’t you? All you need here is some winter vegetables and a chicken. I used canned pumpkin, and some taro root from the neighborhood supermarket. Taro is similar to potatoes in taste, just with a more pronounced flavor. Taro root is popular in Lebanon and the Middle-East. It [...]
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Cake with anise and turmeric (Sfoof)

These little cakes are on sale in every Arabic  pastry shop in Lebanon; their bright yellow color is due to turmeric; a spice that is apparently very good for you. The good ones also contain anise powder, which I made sure I included. Preparation time for these is less than 15 minutes, just a matter [...]
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Dilled purses with carrot coins (Ejjet al Shomar w jazar)

In Lebanese cuisine,  egg fritters with chopped parsley, fried in olive oil are common and everyday meals; this one uses dill and according to Nada Saleh in her book Splendors of the Levant it is a very old Lebanese recipe used by mountain folks. I made a modern version of these dill fritters by using less [...]
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