Recipes from Ingredient: Yogurt
Lamb in Yogurt Sauce – Laban Emmo aka Shakriyeh
This Lebanese dish is cooked with lamb meat (usually shank) and yogurt, and served with a side dish of vermicelli rice (recipe on this website). It’s tasty, comforting, healthy and easy to prepare. Traditionally, it’s made using goat or sheep milk yogurt but I do it with cow milk Greek ...
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Nammoura – Lebanese Semolina cake
Namoura is a Lebanese baked semolina cake, easy to make. There are also other Middle Eastern versions. In Syria, and Palestine it’s known as Hrisseh. In Egypt, it is called Basbousa. The Iranians call it Revani and the Armenians call it shamali. In North Africa it’s called Kalb el Louz. ...
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How to Make Labneh (Creamy Yogurt Cheese) and How to Use it
No one knows exactly when Labneh was first created but it has been eaten in the Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Palestine…) for thousands of years. Labneh is made from strained yogurt which is made from either cow or goat or sheep milk. Greek yogurt is strained, but not as much as ...
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Fattet Batinjen – Eggplant with Yogurt and Pine Nuts
This is a classic Lebanese recipe. It is appetizing, distinctive, delicious, healthy and, last but not least, vegetarian. Since it involves frying the eggplants, I would suggest the use of an air fryer. With an air fryer you only coat the eggplants with very little of oil ! And you ...
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