30 Dishes

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Awameh

Fried dough soaked in syrup or honey

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Baklava

Baklava (, or ; ottoman turkish: باقلوا) is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey. it was one of the most popular sweet pastries of ottoman cuisine.the pre-ottoman origin of the dish is unknown, but, in modern times, it is a common dessert of turkish, iranian and arab cuisines, and other countries of the levant and maghreb, along with the south caucasus, balkans, and central asia.

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Barazek

Barazek or barazeq (in arabic برازق barāzeq) are arab cookies whose main ingredient is sesame (سمسم sumsum) and often also contain pieces of pistachio. it probably originated during ottoman rule in the syrian capital, damascus, particularly in the al-midan neighborhood, although today it is so popular that it can be found in most pastry shops throughout the levantine area (lebanon, jordan, palestine and syria) and beyond. it is also one of the more traditional palestinian desserts and it is easy to find stalls selling barazek on the streets of jerusalem.it is considered one of the most famous syrian desserts and has a multitude of variants. all include flour, butter, sugar, and sesame; some may also include egg, milk, pistachios, honey, mahleb, yeast, and vanilla, as well as clarified butter (samneh) instead of regular butter. it has a sweet, buttery and nutty flavor, and a crisp and brittle texture.

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Basbousa

Basbousa (arabic: بسبوسة basbūsah) is a sweet, syrup-soaked semolina cake that originated in egypt, and is also common in other countries. the semolina batter is baked in a sheet pan, then sweetened with orange flower water, rose water or simple syrup, and typically cut into diamond (lozenge) shapes or squares. it is also found in most areas of the former ottoman empire, and is featured in middle eastern cuisines, greek cuisine, azerbaijani cuisine, turkish cuisine, ethiopian cuisine, yemeni cuisine and others.

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Blancmange

Blancmange (, from french: blanc-manger [blɑ̃mɑ̃ʒe]) is a sweet dessert popular throughout europe commonly made with milk or cream and sugar thickened with rice flour, gelatin, corn starch, or irish moss (a source of carrageenan), and often flavoured with almonds. it is usually set in a mould and served cold. although traditionally white (hence the name, in english literally "white eating"), blancmanges are frequently given alternative colours. some similar desserts are french chef marie-antoine carême's bavarian cream, italian panna cotta, the middle eastern muhallebi, chinese annin tofu, hawai'ian haupia and puerto rican tembleque. the historical blancmange originated at some time during the middle ages and usually consisted of capon or chicken, milk or almond milk, rice, and sugar and was considered to be ideal for the sick. tavuk göğsü is a sweet contemporary turkish pudding made with shredded chicken, similar to the medieval european dish.

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Booza

Booza (arabic: بُوظَة, romanized: būẓah, lit. 'ice cream') is an eastern mediterranean frozen dairy dessert made with mastic and sahlab (orchid flour), giving it its distinguished stretchy and chewy texture—much like dondurma. it is traditionally made through a process of pounding and stretching in a freezer drum, instead of the more usual churning method used in other ice creams.

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Crepe

A crêpe or crepe ( (listen) or , french: [kʁɛp] (listen), quebec french: [kʁaɪ̯p] (listen)) is a very thin type of pancake. crêpes originated in brittany, a region in western france, during the 13th century, and are now consumed around the world. crêpes are usually one of two varieties: sweet crêpes (crêpes sucrées) or savoury galettes (crêpes salées). they are often served with a wide variety of fillings such as jam or hazelnut cocoa spread. crêpes can also be flambéed, such as in crêpes suzette.

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Ghazal al banat

Cotton candy, also known as fairy floss and candy floss, is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton. it usually contains small amounts of flavoring or food coloring.it is made by heating and liquefying sugar, and spinning it centrifugally through minute holes, causing it to rapidly cool and re-solidify into fine strands. it is often sold at fairs, circuses, carnivals, and festivals, served in a plastic bag, on a stick, or on a paper cone.it is made and sold globally, as candy floss in the uk, ireland, egypt, india (also known as grandma's hair), new zealand, sri lanka, and south africa; as "girls hair" in united arab emirates, and saudi arabia; and as fairy floss in australia. similar confections include korean kkul-tarae and persian pashmak.

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Halawet el jibn

Halawet el-jibn (arabic: حلاوة الجبن / ḥalāwat al-jibn) (cheese sweet) is a syrian dessert made of a semolina and cheese dough, filled with cream. its origin has been given as the city of homs in syria, though it is also claimed to be the city of hama, it is found in other regions in the middle east, and has been brought by syrian immigrants to other countries such as turkey and germany.

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Halva

Halva (also halvah, halwa, and other spellings) is a type of confectionery originating from persia and widely spread throughout the middle east. the name is used for a broad variety of recipes, generally a thick paste based on flour or semolina, finely ground seeds or nuts, and sweetened with sugar or honey.halva is popular in western, central and south asia, the balkans, the caucasus, eastern europe, north africa and the horn of africa. halva can be kept at room temperature during non-summer months with little risk of spoilage.

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Hininy

Hininy is a traditional food in saudi arabia, especially in najd. it is a mixture of date paste, wheat flour, milk, ghee, sugar and cardamom, and is common during ramadan

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Jalebi

Jalebi (hindi: जलेबी,bengali: জিলাপি,odia: ଜିଲାପି, urdu: جلیبی‎, nepali: जेरी sinhala: පැණි වළලු), is a popular sweet snack in south and west asia, africa, and mauritius. it goes by many names, including jilapi, jilebi, jilipi, zulbia, jerry, mushabak, z’labia, or zalabia. the south asian variety is made by deep-frying maida flour (plain flour or all-purpose flour) batter in pretzel or circular shapes, which are then soaked in sugar syrup. jalebi is eaten with curd or rabri (in north india) along with optional other flavors such as kewra (scented water). in some west asian cuisines, jalebi may consist of a yeast dough fried and then dipped in a syrup of honey and rose water. the north african dish of zalabia uses a different batter and a syrup of honey (arabic: ʻasal) and rose water.jalebi can be served warm or cold. they have a somewhat chewy texture with a crystallized sugary exterior coating. citric acid, lime juice and rose water is sometimes added to the syrup. similar but distinct dishes include imarti, chhena jalebi, lokma, zalabiyeh, and bamiyeh. to keep it crisp and to prevent it from getting soggy, commercially made jalebi has rangkat (which is sodium dithionite and also called hydro) added to the jalebi batter recipe

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Ka'ak

Ka'ak (arabic: كعك, also transliterated kaak) or kahqa is the common arabic word for biscuit, and can refer to several different types of baked goods produced throughout the arab world and the near east. the bread, in middle eastern countries, is similar to a dry and hardened biscuit and mostly ring-shaped. this pastry is popular in indonesia, and called as "kue kaak".

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Kaak bi loz

Marzipan bracelets, almond cookies

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Kanafeh

Knafeh (arabic: كنافة) is a traditional middle eastern dessert made with spun pastry called kataifi, soaked in a sweet, sugar-based syrup called attar, and typically layered with cheese, or with other ingredients such as clotted cream, pistachio or nuts, depending on the region. it is popular in the middle east. variants are also found in turkey, greece, and the balkans.in arabic, the name may refer to the string pastry itself, or to the entire dessert dish. in turkish, the string pastry is known as tel kadayıf, and the cheese-based dessert that uses it as künefe. in the balkans, the shredded dough is similarly known as kadaif/cataif, and in greece as kataifi, and is the basis of various dishes rolled or layered with it, including dessert pastries with nuts and sweet syrups. one of the most well-known preparations of the dessert is "knafeh nabulsiyeh", which originated in the city of nablus, and is the most representative palestinian dessert. knafeh nabulsiyeh uses a white-brine cheese called nabulsi. it is prepared in a large round shallow dish, the pastry is colored with orange food coloring, and sometimes topped with crushed pistachio nuts.

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Karabeej halab

Finger-shaped cookies with a pistachio or walnut filling, serve with natef, a meringue made from soapwort (bois de panama)

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Khoshaf

Dried fruit compote, made with stewed dried fruit such as prunes, raisins, dates, apricots and figs, nuts, syrup, orange blossom water, common during ramadan

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Ma'amoul

Ma'amoul (arabic: معمول [mɑʕmuːl], also spelled m'aamoul, m'amul, m'aamul) is a filled butter cookie made with semolina flour. the filling can be made with dried fruits like figs or dates or nuts such as pistachios or walnuts and occasionally almonds.ma'amoul are usually made during the easter holiday, purim, and a few days before eid (then stored to be served with arabic coffee and chocolate to guests who come during the holiday). it is popular throughout the arab world, especially in the arabian peninsula.they may be in the shape of balls, domed or flattened cookies. they can either be decorated by hand or be made in special wooden moulds called tabe.

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Malban

Turkish delight or lokum (ottoman turkish: لوقوم) is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are often flavored with rosewater, mastic gum, bergamot orange, or lemon. the confection is often packaged and eaten in small cubes dusted with icing sugar, copra, or powdered cream of tartar to prevent clinging. other common flavors include cinnamon and mint. in the production process, soapwort may be used as an emulsifying additive. the origin of turkish delight is not precisely known, but the confection is known to have been produced in turkey and iran (persia) as early as the late 18th century.

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Mamouniyeh

Semolina porridge with ghee and sugar syrup

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Meghli

Meghli, moghli, meghleh, (arabic: مغلي), or karawiyah, is a levantine dessert based on a floured rice pudding and spiced with anise, caraway, and cinnamon. the dish is often garnished with dried coconut flakes and various nuts including almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, and pistachios. meghli is commonly served to celebrate the birth of a child.

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Mushabak

Zalabiyeh (arabic: زلابية) is a fritter or doughnut found in several cuisines across the middle east and west asia. the fritter version is made from a semi-thin batter of wheat flour which is poured into hot oil and deep-fried. the earliest known recipe for the dish comes from a 10th-century arabic cookbook and was originally made by pouring the batter through a coconut shell. zalabiyeh is also the arabic language term used by mizrahi jews for a deep-fried yeast dough, often topped with either honey or syrup, and known as burmuelos in ladino.

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Om ali

Om ali, omali, umm ali, or oumm ali (egyptian arabic: أم على), meaning "mother of ali", is a traditional egyptian dessert, and is a national dessert of egypt. there are numerous variations with different composition. the dish, which is traced back to the early years of egypt's mamluk era, is named after the wife of the sultan of egypt who asked her cooks to come up with the most delicious dessert that they could create. the chosen recipe was distributed throughout the country, and became a national dish of egypt.

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Qatayef

Qatayef or katayef or qata'if (arabic: قطايف, [qɑ'tˤɑ:jɪf]), [qɑ'tˤɑ:jɪf]) is an arab dessert commonly served during the month of ramadan, a sort of sweet dumpling filled with cream or nuts. it can be described as a folded pancake, similar to a scottish crumpet.

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Qurabiya

Qurabiya (also ghraybe, ghorayeba, ghoriba (arabic: غريبة), ghribia, ghraïba, or ghriyyaba and numerous other spellings and pronunciations) is a shortbread-type biscuit, usually made with ground almonds. versions are found in most countries of the arab world, with various different forms and recipes.in the maghreb and egypt, it is often served with libyan tea, arabic coffee or maghrebi mint tea. ghoriba has been around in the greater syria area, iraq and other arab countries since ancient times. they are similar to polvorones from andalusia.

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Rice pudding

Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and other ingredients such as cinnamon, vanilla and raisins. variants are used for either desserts or dinners. when used as a dessert, it is commonly combined with a sweetener such as sugar. such desserts are found on many continents, especially asia where rice is a staple. some variants are thickened only with the rice starch; others include eggs, making them a kind of custard.

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Tahiniyyeh

Tahini (sesame seed paste) mixed with date syrup/molasses, serve with bread

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Tamrieh

Thin pastry dough wrapped around semolina pudding, then fried and coated with powdered sugar

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Tulumba

Tulumba or bamiyeh (persian: بامیه) is a deep-fried dessert found in turkey and the regional cuisines of the former ottoman empire. it is a fried batter soaked in syrup, similar to jalebis and churros. it is made from unleavened dough lump (about 3 cm long) given a small ovoid shape with ridges along it using a pastry bag or cookie press with a suitable end piece. it is first deep-fried to golden colour and then sugar-sweet syrup is poured over it when still hot. it is eaten cold.

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Znoud el sit

Deep-fried cream filled phyllo pastries