Top 52 Most Popular Mediterranean Dishes
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2. Bazila' bi' lahme - Meat and green peas in tomato sauce served with rice
3. Biryani Lahme/Dadaj - A very common dish, which consists of heavily seasoned rice cooked with chicken or lamb. Originally from the Indian sub-continent served with spicy tomato sauce and yoghurt sauce
4. Dajad Mahshi - stuffed chicken with rice, onion, lahme and nuts served with rice
5. Dajad bil Batata - Chicken cooked with potato and tomato slices served with rice
6. Dajad/Lahme Maghrabiah or couscous : Semolia dish with onion, chick peas and chicken or lahme
7. Djaj Mechwi – grilled chicken with peas
8. Dajad Molukhia - Chicken Molukhiya served with lemon onion sauce
9. Daoud Bacha - meatballs with tomato sauce
10. Deleh Mehshi - stuffed rib cage of lamb
11. Doodi - smoked rice served with lemon garlic chicken
12. Fasoulia bil lahmeh/Fasulya -- a stew made with green/dry white beans, lamb and tomato broth or other ingredients serbed with rice
13. Fasoulya Beyda - White beans cooked in tomato sauce and served with rice.
14. Fasoulya Khadra - Green beans cooked in tomato sauce and served with rice.
15. Fasoulya Hammanieh - kidney bean stew served with rice
16. Freikeh bil dajad/lahme - cooked young dried wheat with meat
17. Green Fuul, steak with Laban served with rice
18. Kabsa Dajad/Lahme - A rice-based dish commonly eaten with meat, lamb or chicken, cooked in a variety of spices and topped with nuts over rice.
19. Kabab Hindi - ground meat kabab in tomato sauce, capsicum and onion served with rice
20. Kusbariah Samak - grilled fish fillet with coriander and lemon juice
21. Lemon Garlic Chicken - Chicken cooked with lemon slices and served with rice
22. Loubieh bil lahme - Green beans stew with meat in tomato sauce
23. Kharoof Mahshi - Rice Oriental with minced meat and green peas cooked served with cooked lahme and served with yoghurt salad
24. Kibbeh bil Laban(Kebbe Labnieh) - topped with garlic and coriander in vegetable ghee and nuts and served with rice
25. Kusha Mahshi - zucchini stuffed with minced meat and rice baked in a tomato-based sauce.
26. Koussa bil-Laban - meat and rice-stuffed zucchini cooked in yoghurt
27. Kubbeh bi-s-siniyyeh - A plate of baked kubbeh.
28. Koussa and Wara' Enab bil-Kastaletah - stuffed zucchini, grape vines and steak
29. Kofta b'bandoora - Spiced, ground meat baked in tomato sauce and served with rice.
30. Khodra bi'lahme - Vegetables with meat stew in tomato sauce
31. Mandi - is a traditional dish of meat, rice, and spices
32. Machboos - A dish made with mutton, chicken, or fish accompanied over fragrant rice that has been cooked in chicken/mutton well spiced broth.
33. Maqluba lahme or dajaj - A rice-based casserole which includes meat, rice, and fried vegetables(potato, eggplant & cauliflower) placed in a pot, which is then flipped upside down when served, hence the name maqluba, which translates literally as "upside-down" served with lahme or chicken and egg plant slices
34. Mansaf Jordon - lamb or chicken cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt called Jameed and served with yellow rice or bulgur.
35. Mulukhiyah Dajaj/Lahame - stew made with leaves of the Nalta/Tossa Jute plant, chicken, beef, and lemon juice garnished with raw chopped onions soaked in vinegar, served over rice.
36. Moussak al Mahashi - Fried stuffed eggplant and baby marrow in tomato sauce served with rice
37. Moussaka - baked dish consisting of spiced lamb and aubergine in tomato sauce served with rice
38. Mujadara/Mudadara - cooked lentils combined with wheat or rice, garnished with onions that have been sautéed in vegetable oil served with yoghurt salad
39. Malfouf - traditional Lebanese dish which involves rolling cabbage leaves with a stuffing of ground meat, rice, 7-spices (of course), then stacking them in a cooking pot in layers with garlic in between, and then simmering them on low heat in a sauce made with lemon juice, fried minced garlic, water and salt
40. Pilav - fried rice/meat based rice like pilaf rice served with lemon garlic chicken
41. Quzi - A hearty dish of roasted lamb with raisins, nuts and spices over green peas and oriental rice and wrapped within taboon bread/sheet
42. Sabanek bi' lahme - spinach cooked with meat served with rice and nuts
43. Samak Sayadiah/Saiyadit al-Samak/Siyyadiyeh – Fish cooked in saffron and served on rice with onions, sumac, and a tahini sauce (the most important part of the dish) and served on rice
44. Samak Harra - grilled fish that has been marinated with chili, citrus, and cilantro
45. Samak Tajin - fish with vegetables served with rice
46. Sarma/Malfuf - cabbage leaf roll filled with meat, rice and onions served with soup or rice
47. Shish Barak - chicken dumplings cooked in yoghurt sauce served with rice
48. Shakriya - meat cooked in yoghurt and onion, garnished with garlic and coriender in vegetable ghee and served with rice
49. Shashlik - A dish of skewered and grilled cubes of meat served with rice
50. Tajin - stew or casserole meat with vegetables served with rice
51. Tajin Karnabit- meat and cauliflower stew served with rice
52. Wara' Dawali - grapes leaves, zucchini, (egg plant and bell peppers) stuffed with meat, rice and tomatoes and lamb chops cooked and served with soup or rice
***Main Course served with vermicelli rice/al'arz alshaeiria/shaeiria rice and nuts topping
**Yoghurt dish garnished with garlic slices and coriender cooked in more vegetable ghee and served with rice
*Lebanese "Seven Spice" Blend – a mixture of equal parts of allspice, black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, fenugreek, nutmeg and ginger. It is commonly used to flavor many Lebanese dishes.
