Turkish Beans Salad.

Hello everybody.

Busy Saturday as usual but warm Summer breeze lightens up the day for me.

Lunch today was fresh green fava beans with olive oil,garlic and coriander along with rich ewe yogurt all bought from Jerash yesterday.

I also made this new salad recipe I saw in the newspaper, full of nutritious beans like corn, hummus and black beans tossed with lettuce,parsley and green onions. Dressing is simple vinegrett but I added some pomegranate sauce.

I also dipped some hard labaneh balls in olive oil, fresh thyme and rosemary leaves,again fresh from Jerash.

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Delicious Spring Dairies .

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Hello everybody.

Nice quick trip up North to Irbid, beautiful green hills and scenery.

As always we stopped by dairy products store on our way back, a speciality of the city,Irbid is known of its best yogurt ever specially these days.

Lunch was what we got, fresh ewe yogurt, labaneh and hot bread. Personally I consider this the best meal ever.

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Shushbarak and Jam Biscuits (شيشبرك ومبروشه)

Hello everybody.

Lunch today was a quick easy thing to do ,specially that I already bought ready made Shushbarak yesterday and I already have fresh ewe yogurt from Irbid so I just cooked the yogurt and added pastries to it.

I also made some carrot soup and a pan of jam cookies or mabrousheh as we call it, since so many asked about it all the time I’ll add the recipe again here today.

Ingredients and method:

1 large egg.
1 tsp vanilla.
3/4 cup butter.
1/2 cup sugar.
2 cups flour.
1 tsp baking powder.
Pinch if salt.
2 cups oj jam of any kind you desire diluted in a bit if water.
Beat the egg.vanilla.sugar and butter well till mixture is creamy and fluffy.
Add the flour.salt.baking powder ,,, keep mixing till dough is stiff and you can hold it without sticking to your hands…form it into a ball.
Spread 3/4 of the dough into a baking tray..spread jam on top.
To the remaining dough add extra 3/4 or 1 cup flour and spin it in food processer till it forms fine crumbles…then sprinkle them over jam.
Bake in medium heat oven for half hour or until sides are brownish..then use the upper flame of oven to toast the top.
Leave to cool well, then cut to squares and serve.♡♥♡♥

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Kibbeh with Yogurt and Armenian Freekeh ;)

Hello everybody.

Today I made these cute mini kibbeh with yogurt sauce,my local supermarket vendor been convincing me to try this kind of new kibbeh products each week when I go grocery shopping,I grabbed these small ones to try,they turned out good,but the ones I usually bring from Sharqas ladies are much more tastier !

This recipe is easy,I roast kibbeh in the oven a bit (15-20 minutes) then boil ewe yogurt with water,starch,margarine and salt till thick, then add kibbeh and simmer for 30-40 minutes.

I also made some freekeh beans with mushrooms and cheese,a dish we always eat at Armenian restaurants,really easy and delicious .

Ingredients and method for freekeh:

* 1 cup fine freekeh,washed.

* finely chopped onion.

* sliced mushrooms.

* salt and pepper.

* kashkaval or mozzarella cheese.

* salt and pepper.

* 1 1/4 cups water.

* 1/2 cup cooking cream.

 

* saute onions in some oil till tender.

* add mushrooms and saute.

* add freekeh,salt and pepper and mix well.

* add water and leave to simmer on low heat.

* when most of the water is absorbed add grated cheese and cream then transfer to an oven pan or pot.

* bake in the oven till all water and liquids are dry.

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