Middle Eastern

When Sarah was living in Amsterdam, she often used to buy delicious Turkish bread from a local bakery. After relocating back to the UK, she knew that these little Turkish bakeries weren’t as common. She …

This delicious winter stew with chickpeas and preserved lemon is a comforting and nourishing dish that is perfect for the colder months of the year. We discovered this recipe in the vegetarian cookbook “A Modern …

The first time we ate this roasted tomatoes on cold yoghurt dish was for a lunch at the restaurant “Rovi” by Yotam Ottolenghi. Immediately this dish was one of our favorites and we made this …

We first came across this recipe in Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem cook book and it quickly became a firm brunch favourite. We cook it with a few variations, often resulting from what happens to be in our …

A few weeks back we finally made it to a restaurant we’d been meaning to try for a while, Oklava. Turkish flavours and mostly cooking over a charcoal grill. We tasted some delicious food, one …

Once you’ve nailed the basic flatbread recipe, you can use your imagination with other flavours in the bread and what you top it with. See our other recipe for lemon chicken kebabs with spiced flatbread. …

Now that we have Italian pizza down to a tee, we tried our hand at these Lahmacun Turkish pizza (apparently pronounced La-ha-ma-choon, but I’m no expert). We couldn’t quite get the temperature up as high …