Type: Breads and pastries
Spinach pies
These take Sami straight back home. He used to have them, once or twice a week, eaten fresh from the oven when…
Pita bread
Who put the pocket in the pita? Pita is the Arab bread khubez adi (‘ordinary bread’) or khubez kimaaj (taken from the…
Jerusalem sesame bread
Ka’ak Al Quds are stacked high on street corners all over Jerusalem, sold by men young and old, from sunrise to sunset….
Za’atar bread
Za’atar bread is also known as ‘fatayer fallahi’, which means ‘villagers’ pie’. Traditionally, it’s made in spring, when the season for collecting…
Sweet tahini rolls
The journey of these rolls can be traced through Lebanon to Armenia, where these kubez el tahineh come from. They are simple…
Sumac onion and herb oil buns
The inspiration for this recipe is less tradition itself than sumac onions: one of the sweet, sharp and heavenly flavours of the…
Arabic samosas
Indian samosas, Hispanic empanadas, Cornish pasties, Bosnian burek: there are so many ways to encase various fillings with pastry before the whole…