Healthy Middle Eastern Food - Articles
Grilling Paradox and Middle Eastern Kefta
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Camilla S.


... fail, knock-your-socks-off alternative to burgers, try my kefta recipe. Kefta (also known as kofta, kufta, kafteh, keftes, cuftah, and kyuftah) are common street foods in the Middle East, made by grinding meat and mixing it with an assortment of spices. The resulting seasoned meat can be shaped into meatballs or cylinders of meat which can be cooke ...
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Middle Eastern Flatbread
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Baroness Tapuzina
... Sprinkle yeast into well. Pour 1/4 cup water over yeast and let stand for 10 minutes. Stir until smooth. Add remaining 1/2 cup water, oil and salt and mix with ingredients in middle of well. Stir in flour and mix well to obtain a fairly soft dough. If dough is dry, add 1 tablespoon water. Knead dough, slapping it on work surface, until it is smooth ...
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Healthy Food for a Healthy Vacation
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Cliff S.

I just returned from a family vacation in Puerto Vallarta and have some interesting stories to tell about how our healthy food helped make the trip better for everyone. My wife and I vacation in Mexico often, but this was the first time my son was able to join us, along with my mother, f ...
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Middle Eastern mezze cooking class / veganmofo 2009 / cookbook winner
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Andrea Z.
... ini sauce with bean salad) sounded very familiar, Sureyya's versions of these dishes were a revelation. Mezze refers to food that comes to the table before the main course — Middle Eastern hors d'oeuvre. The main meal usually contains meat, but mezze consists of fresh vegetables, bread and olive oil. We started with zaytun musabbeh — spiced olive ...
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Ice Cream – Middle Eastern Style
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Baroness Tapuzina
... s raw tehina (sesame paste). I didn’t want to use sugar to sweeten the tehina because it just didn’t sound right to me, so I decided the perfect sweetener in keeping with its Middle Eastern roots would be date honey, also known as silan in Hebrew.The apricot ice cream came out nice and creamy with a strong fruity taste, although perhaps not quite a ...
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