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PREPARATION-MARINADES-SEASONING
advieh (persian spice mix)
falafel hot sauce
homemade tahini (sesame seed paste)
leban sauce
labni (fresh cheese made from yogurt)
taratoor (sesame sauce)
yogurt with garlic

SIDES-SALADS-SAUCES-SOUPS
babini (tomato salad)
green coriander salad (salata ducos)
jajik (cucumber salad)
cucumber with yogurt
eggplant and lamb with yogurt
oriental green bean salad (fasooleyah khodra bi zeit)
parsley salad with tahineh sauce - bakdunsieh
salata khadra (green salad)
okra in oil
salatit khodar meshakel mixed fresh vegetable salad
yakhnit lobia (yakhnit green beans)
yogurt with roasted eggplant
saudi herbed salsa (salsa -or- dukoos)
lebanese & isreali baba ghanoush

LIGHT-APPETIZERS-DIPS
egg kabab (aijet beythat)
mahshi bassal (stuffed onion rolls)
salatat bathinjan (eggplant appetizer)
stuffed omelet
turkish poached eggs with yogurt and spicy sage butter

MAIN MEAT
blehat lahma lamb loaves with apricots and egg
fakhitha fel foarn (leg of lamb)
grecian meatballs - keftedes
ground-meat kebabs kefta kabab
kebab with yogurt (kebab bel laban)
kebabs
tafta kofta (beef balls in the pan)
leg of lamb with yogurt (fakhitha bel laban)
middle eastern sesame lamb meatballs with minted yogurt dip
shish kabab
moroccan meat

MAIN POULTRY
bukhari chicken
chicken with olives
chicken with yogurt (dajaj bel laban)
dajaj bil fitr (mushroom chicken)
farareej mashwi (broiled chicken with oil, lemon, and garli
grecian stewed chicken - chicken stefado
georgian chicken salad - chicken pkhali
lebanese chicken

MAIN SEAFOOD
shrimp abu dhabi (murabyan)
fish baked in sesame sauce
istanbul swordfish on spits (kilich shish)
lebanese-style tuna salad with tahini dressing
yoghurt marinated shrimp (awaal arrubyaan bil lebaneh)

MAIN SALAD WITH-MEAT-POULTRY-SEAFOOD

DESSERT
anise tea
anis-ginger tea
cinnamon tea
middle eastern lemonade


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