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Maamoul

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Maamoul is a great desert, you can have it all year round. It is also an Easter tradition. Beyond chocolate eggs, hens, or rabbits, maamoul is my favorite Easter sweet. The recipe is very easy, it takes time to knead and to make every single piece of sweet. In my family we prepare the dough in holy Tuesday, we let it rest until following day and then we make maamoul on holy Wednesday, cook it on holy Thursday after the service and it is absolutely forbidden to take any sweet until Saturday late night after Easter midnight vigile.  My favorite recipe is the following, this is to prepare 16 small sweets 100g of unsalted butter, instead of butter I prefer to use a butter equivalent spread known as rich in Omega 3. 200g of medium semolina 100g of flour 1 table spoon of caster sugar Soften the butter add semolina, flour and sugar, mix with a wooden spoon, then knead by hands until you have a nice and soft dough. Put into a salad bowl, cover with a transparent film and...
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Microwave Atr

Atr is inverted sugar, it is used in many lebanese dessert recipes. You can make it in a saucepan. But if you need a small quantity of atr, it is so easy to make in microwave. In a large mug put sugar less than half of the mug. Add water in a proportion 4 sugar / 1 water. Your mug should be adapted to microwave and beware it is hot when manipulating. Stir well. Heat 1 minute in microwave. Take out stir well. Heat for another minute. Take out, add two large spoons of fresh lemon juice, stir well and back to the microwave for one minute. Take out of microwave, your liquid should be clear, if it is not you need to heat it more. Wait for few minutes, add 1 ts of rose water, 1 ts of orange blossom water, stir very softly. That's all... you can keep it for few weeks.
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Lebanese biscuits

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Easy recipe to make home. Mix together 50g melted butter 75g yogurt 250g flour 100g powdered sugar 1 spoon rose water 1 spoon orange blossom water Mix together well Add water until you have a dough. Few spoons not more. Make small balls of the dough and put on a tray. Cooked in hot oven for 20 minutes or until light brown (180C) Powder icing sugar when hot. Sahtein! Enjoy!
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Yogurt and cucumber

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Yogurt cucumber: Very easy and very fresh. You find it everywhere in the Middle-East, greeks call it tzatziki, in Lebanon khyar wa laban. Put few yogurts into a bowl, I use 0% fat yogurt, chop cucumber in cubes of 0.1 inches, you can also chop some chime, add salt and mix with a spoon. I keep the cucumber's skin, others remove it. On top of it you can add some dry mint and olive oil. You can eat with lebanese flat bread or crisps. SAHTEIN !!!
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Tabbouleh, Lebanese favorite starter

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I can never figure a Lebanese mezze without Taboulleh. Fresh, delicious, tasty, healthy, great for summer hot evenings on the terrace. And also Tabbouleh has our colors: green, red and white. This is the only genuine Tabbouleh, it has absolutely nothing to do with a french copy. I give you the recipe and you adapt it at your taste. The ingredients are: 1 bunch of flat parsley 2 large tomatoes 1 large onion 2 tablespoons of burgul 1 lemon Olive oil, salt and peper You can also add few leaves of mint, or another aromatic herb, I love oregano, I add few leaves in my tabbouleh. First, pour burgul in a bowl. Cut tomatoes very thin in small cubes around 0.1 inch side and put them in the bowl. Cut parsley leaves and other herbs very very thin with a sharp knife, of course be careful for your fingers, I said cut the parsley not the fingers. Don't try to cut parsley by any other way, it will not give you the good taste of the tabbouleh. Add parsley to the bowl. Cut onion i...
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Aperitif carrots with lemon

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Very easy, very healthy, very fresh, very cheap...   you almost have it every restaurant in Lebanon with the aperitif. Peel few carrots, cut them in batonnets, you can google "carrot batonnet size", you will find this is 2 inches long and 1/4 by 1/4 inch thick. Poor some fresh squeezed lemon juice and a pinch of salt, give it a quick mix and it is ready. I am sure you will enjoy it... And, at home, each time I drink the juice at the end, fantastic lemon with carrot cocktail... One day I had no lemon, this is very unusual in a Lebanese house, I replaced it with orange fresh juice. It is fantastic, worth trying, it gives a very nice sweet taste. Sahtein
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Diet alternative to Mannouché

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Mannouché is a lebanese pizza made with flat dough, like a pizza, and a thyme mixture with olive oil. The thyme mixture is made of thyme, sumac and sesame seeds. Mannouché is eaten at any time, very usual in the morning but a also a snack anytime of the day, there are Mannouché shops every where in Lebanon. And basically Mannouché is one of the cheapest things you can buy in Lebanon, the prices start from 1000 lebanese pounds or 66 cents of a dollar. I don't live in Lebanon, I created this easy to make snack with lower calories than Mannouché. I slice and dice half a tomato and I mix with two spoons of the thyme mixture, put it on a tortilla, nice mix of Latin America and Middle-East. You can also make a flat pizza. I cook 10 minutes in a hot 200C oven, and eat it with mint leaves. Nice pizza and easily 180kcal less than a Mannouché.
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