Type: Breakfast

April 26, 2021

Warm hummus with toasted bread and pine nuts

Fatteh roughly translates as ‘crushed’ or ‘crumbled’. It refers to a group of dishes where chunks of flatbread (either stale bread in…

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Hummus: two ways

If anything is going to keep you going until lunch it’s a dish of hummus to start the day. It’s filling and…

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Warm chickpeas with green chilli sauce and toasted pita

The word musabaha means ‘swimming’ or ‘floating’, here describing the chickpeas floating around in the tahini sauce. It’s essentially hummus a step…

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Hassan’s easy eggs with za’atar and lemon

These eggs will always remind Sami of his father, Hassan, who used to make them at the weekend for Sami and his…

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Fresh herb omelette with caramelised onions

Palestinian omelettes have a little bit of flour and baking powder added to the mix. This (along with the fact that they…

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Fruit and yoghurt with sesame crumble and tahini-date syrup

For those who like yoghurt and fruit in the morning, rather than a more hearty chickpea-based breakfast, this is a great (though…

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Scrambled red shakshuka

Shakshuka: the signature breakfast of the Middle East. It’s a wonderfully informal dish, brought to the table in the pan it’s cooked…

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Green shakshuka

Getting ahead: As with the red shakshuka opposite, the base can be prepared a day or two in advance if you want…

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Ful medames

Ful medames is best known as an Egyptian staple. It’s just as popular in Palestine, though, particularly during Ramadan where it’s often…

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