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How to make an epic feast for Eid starring slow-cooked lamb on jewelled rice

Mark the end of Ramadan with this feast featuring mansaf kharouf (lamb on rice), fried cauliflower, deluxe fattoush and a delicious spin on baba ghanouj.

  • Karima Hazim Chatila and Sivine Tabbouch
Cold green bean salad.
EASY

Green bean salad with toasted almonds and spiced preserved lemon dressing

This make-ahead cold bean salad with a zingy dressing is simple, but special enough for big occasions.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Lamb, almond and apricot kofta.
EASY

As easy as making burgers but much more impressive: Adam Liaw’s juicy lamb kofta

It may sound fancy, but these kofta are no more difficult than making hamburgers or a meatloaf.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Crumbed lamb cutlets with pasta, green chilli and chickpea salad.
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Crumbed lamb cutlets with pasta, green chilli, and chickpea salad

Two surprise ingredients make golden-crumbed lamb cutlets even better.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
The vibrant Yemeni condiment zhoug adds piquancy to both the lamb cutlets and zucchini.
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Once you’ve tried this punchy green condiment, you’ll want to slather it on everything

It’s pan-fried lamb cutlets with zucchini zhoug and flatbreads for the weeknight win – featuring your new favourite condiment.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s spiced roast chicken with cucumber and yoghurt salad.
EASY

Hawaij (Yemeni spice mix) roast chicken with cucumber salad

A fragrant spice mix from Yemen is the base of the marinade for this roast chicken.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Pavlova Barbara.

Adam Liaw’s pavlova Barbara

Based on a Palestinian Christian dessert, this pav-with-a-difference is decorated with fresh fruits, nuts and seeds.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s stuffed flatbreads with minted yoghurt. 

Stuffed flatbreads with mint yoghurt

These fluffy, fragrant flatbreads are perfect for lunch with a squeeze of lemon and some mint yoghurt for dipping.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
RecipeTin Eats’ SOS recipe: Spiced chickpea mushroom stew.
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RecipeTin Eats’ one-pot spiced chickpeas and mushrooms is a vegetarian slam-dunk

Mellow spices and fresh herbs add spark to this quick and inexpensive dish, which is served with warm flatbreads for dunking and scooping.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Eggplant shawarma with sumac pickled radishes and tahini.
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Eggplant shawarma with sumac-pickled radishes and tahini flatbreads

All the fun of a flatbread-wrapped bundle of fragrant Middle Eastern goodness, but make it meat-free.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/topic/middle-eastern-lav