Moroccan honeycomb pancakes recipe

The Lebanese Recipes Kitchen (The home of Delicious Lebanese/Middle Eastern food recipes) invites you to try Moroccan honeycomb pancakes recipe. Enjoy cooking best desserts and learn how to make Moroccan honeycomb pancakes.

Based on a recipe from Robert Carrier. These yeast pancakes are cooked on one side only and develop little holes like a crumpet - all the better for soaking up the honey and melted butter.

Ingredients

1 tbsp dried yeast
1 tspn sugar
6 tbsp warm water
450g plain flour
pinch salt
1 egg
1 cup water
1 cup milk
olive oil or grapeseed oil
100g butter
1/2 cup honey
orange-flower water
chopped unsalted pistachio nuts


Method

Mix yeast with sugar and sprinkle over warm water. Stir and set aside for 10 minutes or until bubbly.

Sift flour and salt into a large bowl and make a well. Lightly whisk the egg with the water, milk and yeast mixture and pour into the well. Using a whisk, draw the flour into the liquid and beat until smooth and like thick cream.

Rest for 1 hour. When ready the batter should be covered with small bubbles.

Heat a heavy based pan, brush with oil or buttered paper and pour a ladleful of batter (about 60ml) onto the hot pan. Quickly smooth with back of the ladle or a spoon to make an even circle and cook until little bubbles appear on the surface. The trick is to make the pancake as thin as possible. The first will not look very promising. When correctly cooked the underside will be golden-brown and quite crisp and the uncooked side will be dotted with holes and look pretty uninspiring.

Place pancake on to a warm dish and repeat the process with the remaining batter.

In a small saucepan, melt butter with honey and add 1 teaspoon orange-flower water or to taste.

Spoon the syrup over each pancake and either roll up or fold into quarters. Scatter the plate with chopped pistachio nuts and serve.

Makes about 12-15 pancakes, 12cm diameter.

Chef: Stephanie Alexander Photo: Marina Oliphant Source: The Age Tuesday September 20, 2005 Middle Eastern, 45 mins plus, Contemporary, Dessert

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Lebanese Fattoush Salad Recipe - How to Make Lebanese Fattoush Salad

The Lebanese Recipes Kitchen presents Lebanese fattoush salad recipe, an authentic salad dish from Lebanon. Enjoy Lebanese food cooking recipes and learn how to make the best Lebanese fattoush summer salad dish. Easy and tasty vegetarian salad.

Ingredients (serves 4)

2 wholemeal pocket pita bread
1/4 cup (60ml) extra virgin olive oil
2 tsp sesame seeds
2 tsp black sesame seeds
Sea salt flakes
2 Lebanese cucumbers
200g punnet grape tomatoes
2 radishes, trimmed, thinly sliced
1 cup mint leaves
1/2 cup flat-leaf parsley
1 tbs lemon juice
Sumac, to sprinkle

Method

1. 1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Place pita bread on an oven tray. Brush both sides with 1 tbs of the oil and sprinkle with combined sesame seeds. Sprinkle with salt flakes. Bake in oven, turning once during cooking, for 5-7 minutes or until golden and crisp. Remove from heat and set aside to cool. Break up into large pieces.
2. 2. Use a vegetable peeler to cut the cucumbers into ribbons. Arrange the cucumber, tomatoes, radish, mint, parsley and pita on a large serving platter. Combine the lemon juice and remaining oil in a small jug. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Drizzle over the salad and sprinkle with sumac. Serve immediately.

Notes

Note: Sumac is the fruit of a shrub that grows in the Mediterranean and Middle East. The tangy, lemony spice is used as a rub for meats, sprinkled over salads or mixed with olive oil to make a simple dip.

Variation: Fattoush is a traditional Middle-Eastern salad. You can also add good-quality sheep's feta and kalamata olives, and for a slightly different flavour, try replacing parsley with coriander.

Source
Notebook: - February 2008, Page 119
Recipe by Sarah Hobbs

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Chicken with Eggplant and Cauliflower Rice Recipe

The Lebanese Recipes Kitchen Invites you to try a delicious main dish of Chicken with Eggplant and Cauliflower Rice dish, this recipe is common in the Arabian Gulf... Enjoy Middle Eastern cooking.

Ingredients
1½ kg whole chicken, cleaned and washed
2 cups vegetable oil or 500 ml, for deep frying
1 medium eggplant or 300 g, cut into large cubes
2 cups cauliflower or 300 g, cut into florets
1 medium onion or 125 g, chopped
2 dried limes, cut into halves
1 medium green capsicum pepper or 150 g, cut into slices
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 medium tomato or 150 g, peeled and diced
3 cubes MAGGI® Chicken Bouillon
4½ cups water or 1125 ml
2½ cups basmati rice or 500 g, washed and drained

Preparation
Place chicken in an oven tray and roast chicken in a 220°C preheated oven for 45-50 minutes or until chicken is roasted and cooked (season chicken with salt and pepper and some vegetable oil).

Meanwhile, heat oil in a saucepan (reserve 3 tablespoon of oil) and fry eggplant and then the cauliflower until they are golden brown in color. Set aside on kitchen tissues to absorb any access oil.

Heat the remaining 3 tablespoons oil in a large pot. Fry onions for 3-4 minutes or until golden in color.

Add dried limes, green capsicum, spices, tomato and MAGGI® Chicken Bouillon cubes, stir for 2 minutes then add the water and bring to boil.

Add the rice and bring to boil with occasional stirring, cover and simmer on low heat for 10 minutes or until rice is halfway cooked. Add the fried vegetables on top. Cover and cook for another 10 minutes or until the rice is completely cooked.

Spoon the rice over a serving plate and serve.

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Moutabel Recipe - Best Moutabel Recipe

Recipe for the best Lebanese moutabel dip. Moutabel is a dip like hummus, but it is a completely different experience. Like hummus, moutabel is regularly found on nearly every Middle Eastern table. In this recipe the eggplants are grilled, however they can also be fried. You may be familiar with a form of this dish known by another name, baba ghanoush. During the month of Ramadan, moutabel is eaten every day. In the past the eggplants would be pounded and mixed with all other ingredients by hand in a large copper bowl.

Ingredients (serves 4-6 people)
2 eggplants
1/3 cup tahini (sesame paste)
3 ounces plain yogurt
1-2 teaspoons of salt or to taste
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 1/2 tablespoons pomegranate paste (optional)

For garnish
Paprika
Sweet red peppers
Parsley
Pomegranate seeds
Walnuts

Preparation

1. Grill the eggplants.
2. Stick the eggplants on a couple of skewers and grill over an open flame (I place them on the naked flame of my gas stove). This is the best way to obtain that great smoky flavor (you can put them under the grill if you like). The skin will blacken and wither with the heat, keep turning them until the eggplants’ skin is soft all over to the touch and a skewer can easily cut through the vegetables.
3. As soon as this happens, take them off the flame and put them in a pot filled with cold water (this will help to cool the eggplants and make it easier to peel them).
4. Peel the eggplants (I found it helps also to peel them under cold running water).
5. Discard the burnt skin and put the pulp in a strainer to preferably leave overnight in the fridge. This will ensure that the excess water is removed.
6. (Instead of grilling, you can deep or shallow fry your eggplants until golden. Then continue on with preparation. Using this method however, you do not get that smoky taste which is so typical of this dish.)
7. Cut the eggplants into small pieces and then pound to a rough pulp (you don’t want it too smooth, it’s good to have some texture left).
8. As you add the other ingredients make sure you incorporate them one by one into the mixture.
9. First, add the tahini, then the yogurt if you wish (yogurt will help take some of the bitterness of the vegetables away, but if you like that bitter taste don’t add any yogurt).
10. Now add the lemon juice and the salt (to taste).
11. If you prefer a sweeter taste I found that adding pomegranate paste works very well.

Serving Moutabel

1. Place the mixture in a dish and smooth it out to cover the dish. Garnish with paprika, parsley leaves, wedges of sweet red pepper, pomegranate seeds and walnuts (walnuts go extremely well with this dish). Finish off with a dash of olive oil. Like hummus, moutabel will keep for a couple of days in the fridge. Don’t forget to cover with plastic wrap.

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