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5 stories for“weeknight levantine cooking”

Ten Middle Eastern Dishes You Can Actually Cook on a Weeknight

No special equipment, no two-day marinades, no ingredients you have to travel for. Ten dishes that are genuinely quick, ordered by how little you have to do.

Aug 14, 2026

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Middle Eastern Rice Dishes, and How Each One Is Actually Built

Kabsa, machboos, maqluba, mujadara, freekeh. They look similar on a platter and are constructed by completely different methods. A guide to which is which and when to cook it.

Aug 14, 2026

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Samke Harra: Lebanese Fish Under Chilli, Citrus and Coriander

The name means spicy fish and undersells it. A tahini and coriander sauce sharpened with chilli and lemon does most of the work, and the fish only has to be fresh.

Aug 1, 2026

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Shish Tawook: The Authentic Lebanese Chicken Skewer Recipe

Shish tawook is Lebanese grilled chicken marinated in yogurt, lemon and garlic. The yogurt is what makes it tender, the marinade time is what most people get wrong, and there is a hard upper limit.

Nov 20, 2024

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Traditional Emirati Food: What It Is, and Why You Rarely See It

A cuisine built by pearl divers, date farmers and traders across the Indian Ocean. The spicing came by dhow, the technique came from scarcity, and almost none of it is served in restaurants.

Aug 10, 2026