Recipes from Lebanon
12 authentic recipes from Lebanon, with ingredients, step-by-step instructions and nutrition info. Add any of them to your free weekly meal planner.
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Tabbouleh
Tabbouleh comes from the mountain villages of Lebanon and Syria, where flat-leaf parsley grows in every kitchen garden.
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Lentil Soup
Red lentil soup is one of the oldest dishes in the world — lentils were a staple across the Levant and Mesopotamia thousands of years before the common era.
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Fattoush
Crunchy salad with fried bread, fresh vegetables and tart sumac dressing.
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Manakish
Flatbread baked with za'atar paste, served warm with fresh vegetables.
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Shish Taouk
Yogurt-marinated grilled chicken skewers, served with creamy toum garlic sauce.
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Grilled Kafta
Grilled spiced ground meat, served over sautéed tomatoes with flatbread.
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Ma'amoul
Stamped semolina cookies filled with a dense date paste.
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Mjadara
Mjadara is one of the oldest dishes in the Levantine kitchen, with lentil-and-grain porridges of this kind traced back over a thousand years in Arab cookbooks,…
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Sfouf
Sfouf belongs to a family of semolina cakes found across the eastern Mediterranean, but the turmeric that gives it its color is distinctly Lebanese, chosen at…
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Knafeh
Knafeh traces back to the city of Nablus, in the wider Bilad al-Sham region that once linked Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Jordan under shared culinary…
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Labneh
Labneh developed as a way to keep yogurt from spoiling in the Levant's hot climate long before refrigeration existed, since straining out the whey concentrates…
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Batata Harra
Batata harra emerged from Lebanon's mezze culture as a way to give a humble vegetable the same bold, punchy treatment as meat or seafood dishes, and it owes…
Flavours of Lebanon
The cuisine of Lebanon is built on chickpeas, olive oil, lemon, garlic and fragrant spice blends. The 12 recipes gathered on this page lean on those everyday building blocks, so you can bring an authentic taste of Lebanon to your own kitchen without hunting down hard-to-find ingredients or specialist equipment. Each one keeps the techniques approachable while staying true to the way the dish is traditionally made.
What you can cook here
Browse dishes such as Tabbouleh, Lentil Soup, Fattoush, Manakish. Each recipe opens with a complete, measured ingredient list, then walks you through the method one clear step at a time, with cooking times and per-serving nutrition so you always know exactly what is on the plate. Whether you want a quick midweek dinner or a dish to linger over at the weekend, there is something here worth cooking next.
Add Lebanon to your week
Every recipe here is portioned for a household and slots neatly into a balanced week — light enough for a busy weeknight, generous enough for a relaxed weekend cook-up. Pick a few favourites from Lebanon, add them to your free weekly meal plan, and we will fold every ingredient into one organised shopping list so the cooking is the only part left to do.