List of Palestinian dishes
The following is a list of Palestinian dishes. For the cuisine, see Palestinian cuisine (Arabic: الطعام الفلسطيني).
A typical Palestinian breakfast with pita, olives, tomatoes fried egg, pita, and labaneh
Main dishes by region
Galilee
- Kibbeh balls - Minced meat in bulgur crust, fried into ball shapes
- Kibbee bi-siniyyeh - Oven baked kibbeh
- Kibbeh nayyeh - Raw meat with bulgur, onions and spices
- Mansaf - Lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt and served with rice or bulgur
- Maqluba - An "upside-down" dish, made with fried vegetables, meat (lamb), rice and eggplant.
- Musakhan - Large taboon bread topped with sumac, and onions.
- Ruz wa Lahme ma' Laban - Mix of rice and lamb topped with a mildly spicy yogurt
- Shish taouk - Chicken pieces on skewers
- Kebab Halabi - kebab served with a spicy tomato sauce and Aleppo pepper
West Bank
- Fasoulya Beyda - White beans cooked in tomato sauce and served with rice.
- Fasoulya Khadra - Green beans cooked in tomato sauce and served with rice.
- Kafta b'thine - Kafta balls cooked with thine sauce and served with rice.
- Kafta harra - Kafta cooked in tomato sauce and potatoes. It can be eaten alone or in Pita bread.
- Mahshi Lift - A specialty of Hebron, turnips stuffed with rice, minced lamb meat and spices, cooked in Tamarind sauce.
- Mandi - also called Ruz ma Lahma in the West bank, it is made by cooking meat, rice and vegetables in a Taboon, Similar to other Arab States.
- Mansaf - Lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt and served with rice or bulgur
- Maqluba - An "upside-down" dish, made with fried vegetables, meat (chicken/lamb) and rice
- Musakhan - Large taboon bread topped with sumac, onions and pepper.
- Zarb - same as Mandi but it is cooked under high pressure in an airtight oven. Usually rice is substituted by bread. Influenced by Jordanians.
Gaza
- Fukharit 'adas - Lentil flavored with red peppers, dill, garlic and cumin.
- Maqluba - upside-down eggplant, rice, meat and cauliflower casserole.
- Qidra - Rice and meat pieces cooked with cloves, garlic and cardamom.
- Rummaniyya - Mix of eggplant, pomegranate seeds, tahina, red peppers and garlic.
- Sumaghiyyeh - Beef and chickpea stew flavored with sumac, tahina and red peppers.
- Zibdieh - Shrimp cooked with red peppers, garlic and peeled tomatoes
National
- Ari'ih - "Rice and minced meat stuffed in pumpkins"
- Bamia - "Okra cooked with tomato sauce and onions"
- Waraq al-'anib - "Rice and minced meats rolled in grape leaves"
- Fatta - "Dishes involving bread crumbs."
- Shurbat freekeh - "Green wheat soup, usually with chicken."
- Kousa Mahshi - Rice and minced meat stuffed in zucchinis
- Maftul - Large couscous like balls, garbanzo beans and chicken pieces cooked in chicken broth.
- Malfuf - Rice and minced meat rolled in cabbage leaves
- Maqluba - An upside-down eggplant, rice, meat and cauliflower casserole.
- Mujaddara - Lentil and bulgur casserole
- Mloukiyyeh - Corchorus stew
- Musakhan - Large taboon breads with chicken, onions, sumac, and allspice.
- Shawarma
- Falafel
Side dishes
Salads and dips
Tahini with lemon and garlic
- Arabic salad - Salad made of tomato, cucumber, onion, olive oils and lemon juices.
- Palestinian salad - made with tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, parsley
- Baba ghanoush - Aubergine salad
- Hummus - Ground garbanzo beans with tahina and olive oil
- Fattoush - Mixed leaf vegetable salad with deep fried pita bread pieces and sumac
- Ful medames - Ground fava beans and olive oil
- Mutabbel - Spicier version of aubergine salad
- Tabbouleh - Parsley and bulgur salad with diced tomatoes, onions and lemon juice
- Tahini - Hulled Sesame seeds paste
- Malfouf salad - is a salad of Arab salads, typically consists of juice, olive oil, garlic, salt and a healthy dose of fresh dried mint.
- Mfarakeh - is an Arab dish made of potato, egg, ghee, cumin powder, salt and pepper, in addition chopped coriander leaf for garnish.
- Galayet bandora - Eaten in Palestine and Jordan. It is served in the morning for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, consisting of tomatoes, olive oil, chili pepper and salt.
Cheeses and yogurts
Breads
Markook
Pita In Nablus
Bread dishes
A Palestinian man from Ramallah using an aleb falafel while frying falafel
- Falafel (could be served plain) - Fried hummus, spice and parsley ball
- Fatayer - Spinach, za'atar or beef pie
- Manakish - Taboon bread topped with za'atar and olive oil
- Sambusak - Fried dough balls stuffed with meat, pine nuts and onions
- Sfiha - Flat bread topped with beef and red peppers
- Shawarma - Pita bread roll of meat, tahini and various vegetables
Beverages
Palestinian arak
- Arak - Anise-flavored alcoholic beverage
- Helba - Fenugreek beverage
- Kharroub - Carob juice
- Qamar Eddine - Apricot juice
- Sahlab - boiled milk with starch, covered with smashed coconut and cinnamon
- Tamar Hindi - Tamarind juice
- Zanjabeel - Ginger beverage
- Lemonade
- Limonana - type of lemonade made from freshly-squeezed lemon juice and mint leaves
- Arabic coffee - is the most popular form of coffee brewed in Arab countries.
- Turkish coffee
Sweets
Kanafeh
Baklawa Sweets from Nablus
Awameh
- Kanafeh - Cheese pastry soaked in sweet sugar-based syrup
- Baklava - Sweet pastry made of layers of filo
- Qatayef - Sweet dumpling filled with cream or nuts
- Ma'amoul - Shortbread pastries filled with dates, pistachios or walnuts
- Warbat
- Meshabek
- Batata b'kaak
- harīsa
- Awameh - is Arabic for “Floater”, is a kind of fried-dough Levantine pastry similar to doughnut holes, made of deep fried dough, soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame.
- halawa
- Muhallebi
- Ghoriba
- maftoul
- she'reya
- saḥlab
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See also
Palestine is one of The Levant Countries, Which are Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
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