Recipes from Ingredient: Tomato paste
Moussaka (Eggplant and minced meat casserole)
Moussaka is a traditional Greek recipe, quite tasty and rich. It needs 3 stages: fry eggplant, simmer meat & tomato and finally cook the béchamel sauce. In this recipe I use only eggplants but you can also add fried slices of potatoes and alternate with the fried slices of eggplants. ...
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Green Beans and Lamb Ragout (Yakhnet Loubieh)
In the Lebanese cuisine, you can add almost any vegetable to some meat (beef or lamb) and cook a tasty ragout. These stews are usually made with tomato sauce, onions, garlic and seasoned mainly with these spices: allspice, cinnamon and pepper. The vegetables that can be used with the tomato ...
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Shepherd’s Pie or Cottage Pie
This British comfort food is a variation of other similar dishes existing in other countries. For example, in France it is called Hachis Parmentier whereas in Lebanon it is called Kebbet Batata. In UK, the dish that is prepared with minced lamb is called Sheperd’s Pie and the one that ...
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Shakshuka (Chakchouka)
This recipe is Tunisian but also popular all over North Africa. You can prepare it with any colour of bell peppers (green, yellow, red). I used the 3 colours. My recipe does not contain eggs but you can add them after the peppers have been cooked, by breaking eggs over the ragout (poaching) ...
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