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The intricate look of this braided puff pastry makes it seem more complicated than it is. Flaky buttery puff pastry is always a great favorite, and the braiding is easily achieved by cutting diagonal strips in the pastry and criss-crossing them over your filling, savory or sweet works equally well…. Read more“Braided Puff Pastry with Savory Fillings”
This sweet and very easy to make pastry is filled with raisins, chopped nuts, and shredded coconuts, a mixture laced with orange blossom or rose water. The folded triangles are then baked to a crispy gold in the oven and then dipped in sugar syrup. They are crisp, crunchy and… Read more“Nuts, Raisins and Shredded Coconut Pastry”
Obviously, not Libyan! But for those of us who keep to a halal diet, cheesecake is a problem, as many recipes contain gelatin, and vegetarian gelatin is often not as strong as the animal-based products. We tried many recipes before arriving at our own fail-proof recipe. This one is topped… Read more“Cherry Cheesecake”
This is a simple, filling stew made with white kidney beans, lamb or beef meat and tomato sauce, which is served with white rice or with fresh hot bread. White kidney beans are called fasolia in Libya, although it has other names in other Arab countries. Other variations of this… Read more“White Kidney Bean Beef Stew Tabikhet Fasolia طبيخة فاصوليا”
This was a request from a follower of the blog. Kushari is carb-rich spicy comfort food from Egypt, made with layers of rice, pasta and legumes which are topped with a spicy garlic and tomato sauce and garnished with caramelized onions and (optionally) cooked chickpeas. As a vegetarian dish, it… Read more“Koshari كشرى”
Sahlab is a warming winter drink topped with a generous sprinkling of cinnamon. Libyan sahlab is greenish-grey in colour and and has the distinctive nutty flavour of qsab flour (pearl millet/دخن). In other Arab countries and the region Sahlab is thickened with powdered orchid tubers or (less traditionally) cornstarch. Like… Read more“Sahlab سحلب”
Rishta or Rishda is a favorite Libyan/North African dish which we here at Libyan Food have received many requests for. Well finally, here it is! Rishda is a fresh pasta of very thin noodles. It is steam cooked in a couscousiere and served with the onion-rich sauce called busla.Known in Libya as… Read more“Rishdat Kaskas – Libyan Home Made Pasta”
This salad is healthy, easy to put together and bursting with flavour. It is both simple and versatile. The green broad beans can be served warm with rice, or cold as a fresh tasting side dish eaten with bread to soak up the dressing. Leftovers make an excellent packed lunch. The artichoke… Read more“Green Broad Bean and Artichoke Salad – Salatet Fool Akhdar – مدمس فول أخضر ليبي”
Hope everyone had a great Eid! We’ve been away for a while but we’ve been working on several posts which are now ready, including, I’m happy to say, the Rishda post. Will post soon.
Hope everyone had a great Eid! We had hoped to put up some Eid cookie recipes before the day but it was not to be. This is one of the recipes for cookies we made which was a great favorite with everyone, coming second only to everyone’s favorite, magroud! These… Read more“Cookies Stuffed with Lokum – Kak Halqom – كعك حلقوم”