
Chana Chaat
Cooked chickpeas (tinned for speed, OR overnight-soaked and home-cooked for the best texture) toss with diced red onion…
Tap a chip to add another filter, or use Clear all below.
Tap any item to find recipes that use it.

Cooked chickpeas (tinned for speed, OR overnight-soaked and home-cooked for the best texture) toss with diced red onion…

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

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

Fasolada is the Greek bean soup that's often called the country's national dish, a slow-cooked pot of haricot beans…

Pita breads are torn into pieces and toasted (or fried) until crisp and crunchy

A torn pita is brushed with olive oil and grilled or fried until golden and crisp

The Saudi take on foul medames, somewhere between the Egyptian original and the Yemeni daal-like versions

Fried green tomatoes are the South's answer to using up the last of the summer tomato patch before frost, firm unripe…

Ful medames is the breakfast Egypt has been eating since pharaonic times, dried fava beans slow-cooked overnight into…

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

Split yellow moong dal (or chana dal, or a mix) is rinsed and pressure-cooked or simmered with turmeric until completely soft

Maris Piper or floury potatoes peel and cube 2 ½ cm

Potatoes, cauliflower, peas boil until tender

This is the masala. The sauce that turns tikka, the marinated, grilled protein from [Restaurant-Style…

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

Tameya is the Cairo version of Egyptian falafel, sold by every street vendor across the city, stuffed into pita with…