Kafta b'thine—kafta balls cooked with tahini sauce and served with rice
Qidreh or Fukharat Qidreh is rice cooked with lamb meat or chicken with chickpeas, kurkuma, saffron, garlic and cardamom. Especially famous in Hebron. Served also on feasts, weddings and funerals. Traditionally made in clay pots in traditional old style stone ovens.
Mahshi lift—a specialty of Hebron, turnips stuffed with rice, minced lamb meat and spices, cooked in tamarind sauce
Mandi—in the West Bank, made by cooking meat, rice and vegetables in an underground oven, as in other Arab States
Mansaf—lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt and served with rice or bulgur
Zarb—same as mandi, but cooked under high pressure in an airtight oven, and usually rice is substituted by bread (influenced by Jordanians)
Jerusalem
Jraysha (جريشة)—a slow-cooked porridge of wheat berries, meat, and often kishk or yogurt, served for wedding ceremonies. Particularly associated with Silwan, Beit Safafa, and Lifta.
Musakhan—large taboon breads with chicken, red onions, pine nuts, sumac, and spices; a modern version is musakhan rolls, where the spices, chicken, sumac, toasted pine nuts, and red onion are rolled in saj bread
Shawarma—a dish consisting of meat cut into thin slices, stacked in a cone-like shape, and roasted on a slowly-turning vertical rotisserie or spit; with a spread of toum (garlic paste) wrapped in saj bread
Watermelon is traditionally served with Akkawi or Nabulsi as table cheeses
Breads
Ka'ak—may refer to a bread commonly consumed throughout the Near East that is made in a large ring-shape and is covered with sesame seeds
Ka'ak al-Quds-named after Jerusalem, bread rings covered in sesame
Khubz—may refer to any type of bread. Breads popular in Arab countries include "pocket" pita bread and tandoor bread.
Pita—a family of yeast-leavened round flatbreads baked from wheat flour, common in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and neighboring areas
Markook—unleavened and usually made with only flour, water, and salt, and after being rested and divided into round portions, flattened and spread across a round cushion until it is thin then flipped onto the saj
Taboon—an important part of Palestinian cuisine, traditionally baked on a bed of small hot stones a taboon oven
Maltout—a flatbread flavored with olive oil. Commonly associated with rural Palestinian cuisine.
Musaffan (مسفن)-an olive oil flavored sweet bread made to celebrate the olive harvest.
Karadeesh (كراديش)-bread of corn flour or barley flour
Arshalleh (قرشلة)-a spiced rusk to be eaten with tea
musaffan (مسَفَّن)-olive oil flavored sweetbread made to celebrate the olive harvest season
Muttabaq zaatar (Arabic: مطبق زعتر) is made by folding dough over fresh za'atar (Origanum syriacum) leaves, onions and sumac, which is then baked and topped with olive oil.
Bread dishes
A Palestinian man from Ramallah using an aleb falafel while frying falafel
Fatayer—a meat pie that can be stuffed with spinach, or cheese such as feta or Akkawi, and za'atar
Manakish—taboon bread topped with za'atar and olive oil
Sambusak—fried dough balls stuffed with meat, pine nuts and onions
Ma'amoul (معمول)—shortbread pastries filled with dates, pistachios or walnuts
Muhallebi (مهلبية)—a milk pudding, basic ingredients are rice, sugar, rice flour and milk
Qaṭayef (قطايف)—sweet dumpling filled with cream or nuts
She'reya bil sukkar (شعيرية بالسكر)—sweetened vermicelli
Warbat (وربات)—a sweet pastry similar to baklava, with layers of thin phyllo dough filled with custard
Swar el-sit (سوار الست)-a round variety of baklava
Hebron
Dahdah (دحدح)-a date filled semolina cake, similar to ma'amoul
Malban (ملبن)—a fruit leather made from grape juice, semolina, and nigella seeds, popular in Hebron
Khabeesa (خبيصة)—a grape juice and semolina pudding traditionally made in Hebron, nuts and seeds are also added to it
Jerusalem
Maarouk (معروك)-A turmeric-flavored sweet bread filled with dates
Meshabek (مشبك)—A deep fried sweet pastry made to celebrate Mawlid
Mutabbaq (مطبق)-a pan fried pastry made by enveloping a cheese or nut filling with thin phyllo dough
Nablus
Knafeh (كُنافة)—cheese pastry soaked in sweet sugar-based syrup made in Palestine
Kullaj (كلاج)—a dessert made from thin dough, shaped into layers or rolls with walnut, Nabulsi cheese, or pistachio as stuffing, which gets cooked in ghee and then topped with qatir syrup
Tamriyeh (تمرية)—a deep fried sweet made from unleavened, folded dough and filled with a semolina and butter filling
Qizha pie (كعكة قزحة)—a semolina cake like hareeseh flavored with qizha
Madlouqa (مدلوقة)-a variety of knafeh served with qishta and pistachios
Zalabiyeh (زلابية)- a fried triangular flatbread that is served with candied pumpkins.
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