5 arab option Recipes

flour, ground cardamom (optional) or 1 tbsp orange flower water or 1 tbsp rose water (optional), pure ghee, icing sugar, blanched almond halves or 50 walnuts or 50 pine nuts or 50 pistachios, baking soda

orange pekoe tea bags (i use tetley tea bags), water, heavy cream (or half-and half), white sugar (to taste), cardamom pods, crushed slightly, olive oil (a good quality please!), halloumi cheese (haloom, arabic, hellim -turkish), all-purpose flour (to be gluten free i use white rice flour or a mix with tapioca starch in 1/2 the amount), lemon, cut in half, pita bread (1 bag, do not use if gluten free), rice crackers (optional, for the gluten free), butter, sliced, cream cheese (not sliced!!! called puck, buck in arabic, danish , no substitute) or yogurt cheese balls in oil or goat feta cheese, sliced, assorted gourmet olive, hummus (homemade or store bought , ours tends to be the later), assortment fresh fruit, cut up into chunks (lovely sprinkled with orange blossom water & sugar if needed)

water, chicken bouillon cubes or 5 tsp chicken stock powder, olive oil, bone-in chicken pieces, skin removed (if it is the breast pieces, cut those in half since they are very large), whole dried limes (loomi), saffron, onion, chopped, tomato, chopped, garlic clove, minced, ground cinnamon, ground turmeric, ground cumin, curry powder, cayenne pepper (optional) or 1/2 tsp chili powder (optional), salt, basmati rice, rinsed and drained

dry active yeast, warm water, sugar, all-purpose bread flour, salt, extra virgin olive oil, dried mint or 1 tsp oregano (optional) or 1 tsp anise, seeds. (optional), egg whites, onion, finely chopped and drained of juices, chili pepper, finely chopped, ground lamb or 18 oz beef, yogurt, pomegranate concentrate, cumin, paprika, salt and pepper, pine nuts (or chopped walnuts), tomato paste (optional)