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10 Middle Eastern-style recipes that zing with zataar

Zataar is a popular Middle Eastern spice mix that features a warming combination of thyme, sesame seeds, oregano, sumac, salt and other spices. Here's 10 recipes that make the most of it.

10 recipes
This Middle Eastern-style lamb "pizza" is a twist on a lahmacun.

Lamb and sumac 'pizza' with tahini sauce and charred onions

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Middle Eastern slow-roasted lamb shoulder.
EASY

Zaatar roasted lamb shoulder with pomegranate salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's zaatar crusted lamb fillet with skordalia.

Zaatar crusted lamb fillet with skordalia

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's spice roasted spatchcock.
EASY

Roast spatchcock recipe with sumac, zaatar and ruby red grapefruit

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Fresh labna rolled in my zataar.

Fresh labna rolled in my zaatar with radish and chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
This salad brims with the mellow fruitfulness of February.
EASY

Grilled zucchini, zaatar and pearl cous cous salad with cherry tomato confit

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Hetty McKinnon
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Middle Eastern chicken kiev.

Spiced chicken kiev with zaatar crumb, crisp aleppo potato, smoked almond and kale salad

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Spice-roasted chicken

Spice-roasted chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Turn leftover lamb roast into ragu.

Smoked sun-dried tomato and olive spiced lamb ragu with pappardelle pasta

  • Katrina Meynink
Haloumi wrapped in vine leaves with pistachios and zaatar.
EASY

Haloumi wrapped in vine leaves with pistachios, zaatar and pomegranate molasses

  • < 30 mins

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