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Sicily's most legendary street food: cold risotto shaped around a hidden centre, breaded, fried gold, and eaten standing up
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Sicily's most legendary street food: cold risotto shaped around a hidden centre, breaded, fried gold, and eaten standing up

Lamb mince mixes with grated onion, parsley, allspice, baharat, pine nuts (optional) and salt

Aroog are the Iraqi spiced meat-and-bulgur patties, flat discs of mince, bulgur and herbs cooked on a hot pan, the snack…

Bessara is the Egyptian fava-bean dip the colour of pale green, a thicker, smoother cousin to ful medames eaten across…

Onion is softened slowly in olive oil 15 minutes

Dolmadakia are the Greek stuffed vine leaves, small cigar-shaped rolls of softened vine leaves wrapped around a herby…

Dried chickpeas soak overnight (never cooked, chickpeas must remain raw)

Dried chickpeas (or a chickpea-fava blend) soak overnight

Iraqi falafel is the version with cardamom and dill, distinct from the Levantine green-coriander variety, made with…

Keftedakia are the small Greek meatballs, the meze-platter staple seasoned with dried mint and ouzo (or red wine) and…

Same technique as Jordan kibbeh-nayyeh-balls (these snacks are siblings across the Levant)

A fine-bulgur-and-lean-mince dough is blitzed smooth with onion, baharat, salt and a touch of ice water

The musakhan filling: red onions (LOTS, for the dish to work, you need 4-5 large onions) slowly caramelise in olive oil…

These are the little salt-cod fritters you'd order at a marble counter in Lisbon, sitting with a glass of vinho verde…

Rissois are the half-moon prawn fritters you'd see in the glass cabinet of every Lisbon snack bar, sold a couple at a…

Sabich is the Iraqi-Jewish breakfast pita, fried aubergine, hard-boiled egg and amba pickled-mango sauce stuffed into…