Food Flashcards
Hummus
Chickpeas “dip” (my dad’s fav)
Loubieh (b zet)
The green beans (with oil) and you can eat it either with rice or with bread
Ingredients
2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium yellow onion (peeled, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced into half moon shapes)
4 garlic cloves peeled and halved
1 lb flat italian beans trimmed on both ends, strings removed if any, and then rinsed and cut in 2” lengths.
1 tsp salt
Mjadra
Lentils soup
Borghul aa banadura
Grains with tomatoes
The one i made you try with yogurt
Tabboule
The parsley salad
Fattoush
The salad you tried at mary’s with pomegranate sauce
Rez aa djej
Rice with chicken
The one i made when zeinab came
Lebanese meza
When they put several small dishes and we all share them
Mezza is the Lebanese version of an ‘entre,’ technically, ‘entres. ‘
It is about abundance in variety and sharing amongst all who are sitting at the table.
Simple, yet elaborate, mezza is consumed at a pace that allows for conversation, laughter, and experience to be included in between.
3ara2 or Arak
A Lebanese alcoholic drink
They drink it with the meza in small cups
Batata
Potatoes
Banadoura
Tomatoes
Battikh
Watermelon
Khass
Lettuce
Khyar
Cucumber
Rez
Rice
Arnabit me2le
Fried cauliflower
Fried is me2le
Mloukhiyye w rez
The green leaves with rice (my mom’s fav)
Djej
Chicken
La7me
Meat
Samak
Fish
Basal
Onions
Mrabba
Jam
Tabekh
Food-type stew, usually with rice on the side
And it’s like saying homemade food
Rib
Tomato sauce (pronounced like rib)
Tea
Shay
Apple
Teffe7a
