Appetizers

Smoke-roasted eggplant whipped with sesame and lemon.

Sweet peppers stuffed with seasoned rice.

Cabbage leaves rolled around spiced rice.

Cauliflower with garlic yogurt and tomato.

Fresh cheese served with raisins, a simple sweet-savory plate.

Haleem — chicken slow-cooked with wheat into a silken porridge.

Vegetables in spiced chickpea batter, fried crisp.

Thin griddled flatbread stuffed with chives, served with yogurt.

Cold chickpeas dressed with vinegar, chutney, and herbs — a street favorite.

The seasoned rice filling that fills the dolma family.

Eggplant stuffed with seasoned rice.

Pan-fried eggplant layered with garlic yogurt and tomato.

Crisp fried pastry triangles filled with spiced meat or potato and lentils.

A purée of chickpeas with sesame, lemon, and garlic.

Vegetables stuffed with seasoned rice and meat.

Griddled flatbread filled with seasoned mashed potato, served with yogurt.

Crisp fried potatoes.

Griddled flatbread stuffed with sweet pumpkin.

Potato sautéed with spice, finished with yogurt.

Pumpkin sautéed soft and sweet, under garlic yogurt.

Smoke-roasted eggplant mashed with tomato and garlic.

Griddled flatbread stuffed with spinach.

Spinach cooked with tart rhubarb.

Tomatoes hollowed and stuffed with rice.

Young squash with garlic yogurt and tomato.