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"A tangy rich tenderizing marinade recipe for grilled, sauteed or baked chicken. I adapted it from a Lebanese restaurant's marinated kabobs.
You will receive many many compliments!"

Ingredients: ground cumin, lemon juice...

"This recipe provides a great non-fat replacement for sour cream or cream cheese. It will easily keep for a couple of weeks in the refrigerator. We usually make a big batch and use it for a lot of different things, topping for baked potatoes along with the other usual goodies; as a base for dips or creamy salad dressings, something to enhance a gravy..."

Ingredients: extra virgin olive oil, salt...

"Plain Yogurt"

Ingredients: milk, yogurt...

"Cooked yogurt is used in Lebanese cooking much the same as we use sour cream in the western world. If you can get goat's milk yogurt it is the best."

Ingredients: cornstarch, egg whites...

"This is a very refreshing salad during hot summer, specially in hot areas..."

Ingredients: cucumbers, dried mint, garlic...

"This is a Palestinian/Jordanian version of this very popular salad. This goes very well with Lamb and rice dishes."

Ingredients: dried mint, lemon juice...

"I'm trying to eat more lentils and made this recipe. If you don't mind the texture of the lentils it's pretty good and refreshing. It's also very healthy. It would probably be good with cucumber, tomato and onion added."

Ingredients: dry lentils, dried thyme...

"This is a recipe from the Jan 2008 Real Simple Magazine.

So yummy looking,. Make sure you use a thick greek yogurt, it makes allt he difference. If for some reason you are put off by it or can't find it, sour cream will substitute fine (but sour cream makes me go :/ )"

Ingredients: flat bread, eggs, Greek yogurt...

"These skewers are healthy and low-fat, but full of flavor. ***NOTE*** For the sauce, the main ingredient is jocoque, but Zaar wont recognize it, so I had to put cultured buttermilk instead. Jocoque is a thin, yogurt-like cultured milk product, similar in taste to cultured buttermilk. It is a Mexican product with Lebanese origins, with hardly any variations..."

Ingredients: cultured buttermilk, lime juice...

"A delicious dish modified from the Complete Middle East Cookbook by Tess Mallos, Lebanon/Syria/Jordan section."

Ingredients: clarified butter, fresh ground black pepper...

"This is usually a first course dish. If you wish do the eggs in individual dishes just make sure you divide the yogurt and garlic sauce evenly The cooking time includes the time to make the cooked yogurt. The "Lebanese Laban Mutboukh (Cooked Yogurt)" recipe is #18138."

Ingredients: clarified butter, dried mint...

"This recipe first appeared as part of a "meatless week-night meal" in the November, 2003 Bon Appetit. Originally posted by Mean Chef. Vegans can omit the yogurt."

Ingredients: ground cumin, cucumbers...

"Dress up that ordinary grilled chicken to create an exotic Mediterranean meal that will excite your family and friends. These 4 marinades will transform your menu into an international culinary delight. Whether you use whole butterflied poussins, game hens, broiler halves, chicken parts or boneless chicken cubes on skewers, you will find the following..."

Ingredients: ground cumin, fresh ground pepper...

"This is an adopted recipe that I selected because it so closely matches my tastes. I do not intend to alter the recipe as it has so many favorable reviews. Once I prepare it, I may annotate the directions based on my experience."

Ingredients: sumaq, olive oil, paprika...