#syrian food

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My 4th falafel this week...

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how i make mujadara (Syrian/Lebanese lentils and rice)

Figured I'd share this since it's my ultimate comfort food and something that's a safe food during even the worst flares. This is mostly my family's recipe from south Syria (near Golan Heights), but also influenced by my dad's Lebanese friend and my own preferences.

For the lentils: - 1/3 cup brown lentils - Onion & garlic, in any form (powder spices, sauteed fresh, literally anything) - Cumin & coriander - Allspice, more than you think is right - Salt - Lemon juice

For the rice - 1/4 cup rice, basmati or any long grain - Some orzo if you're feeling fancy - Cooking oil or ghee

Toppings! - Caramelized onions - Feta (optional) -Tahini & lemon juice (optional) - Sumac (optional)

Cooking it:

Cut the onions into onion rings and then in half so they're C-shapes. Start caramelizing them, add some salt, leave on med-low heat. You can skip this, but it is a major part of the dish so definitely try it at least once (I keep frozen caramelized onions bc of how often I eat this)

Wash your lentils. Same process as washing rice, keep an eye out for twigs/leaves/etc. Throw them in a pot with the spices and some water, bring to a boil and then simmer 30ish minutes. You might need to add more water throughout.

Wash your rice. Heat up your oil or ghee and cook the rice until you can smell it. Add 6 tablespoons water, salt, cover and let cook for 15 minutes.

Make tahini lemon dressing (optional). About a tablespoon of tahini with 1-2 tablespoon of lemon juice. Stir it with a fork; it'll get really thick as it emulsifies so thin it down with cold water.

Assemble rice, lentils, onions, dressing, feta, and sumac in your favorite bowl, and eat a delicious meal. (image w/o tahini bc i used it all making hummus lol)

(Notes: The rice:lentil ratio is highly debated, this is my preference but you might like something else. Some people cook the rice with the lentils, this is just how my family does it. Some people will partially blend the lentils, I tend to slightly overcook them instead.)

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Just Syrian Shawarma, 331 N Glendale Ave, Glendale, CA 91206

New shawarma truck! I spotted the Just Syrian Shawarma truck parked in front of Whole Foods in Glendale, right by the Armenian shawarma truck. A shawarma showdown. I wasn’t sure how Syrian shawarma was different since this was my first time having it.

The menu is simple. They only have chicken shawarma – you can get it as a sandwich ($12) or a plate ($15), fries, spicy grilled bread, drinks, and extra garlic sauce. The chicken is halal. Syrian shawarma spices are different. The sandwich is a wrap with chicken, garlic sauce, and pickles.

I could see a vertical spit. The chicken shawarma was carved off the rotisserie, wrapped in a flour tortilla (not sure why they didn’t use lavash) with garlic sauce and thin pickles, and pressed on the grill with an iron/wright on top. The ends were left open. The flour tortilla was slightly crispy. The chicken was in fairly large pieces. The spices did taste different though it’s hard for me to describe. There was lots of garlic sauce. The pickles were the sour kind that I like. While the chicken was slightly dry, the tangy, creamy, potent garlic sauce made up for it. The chicken had a touch of pomegranate molasses which added a tangy subtle sweetness. The sandwich was small – like a thin burrito – but oh so good.

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22/6/2023 - Dinner

PALMYRA, AMSTERDAM

Syrian food

Lentil soup - warm and comforting

Baba ganoush - feels a little too sour

Kebab- very tender minced lab. Best dish here!

Chocomel - very impressed with this plant based chocolate milk. Wouldn't have thought that it wasn't dairy

Albert heijn apple pie with creme fraiche

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Batata Harra

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A stimboard for a Syrian Hamster.

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Vegan Maamoul (Butter Cookies)

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shout-out to halva (or halwa or halawa), it's kept my chronically ill ass fed through some bad flares. it's basically candied tahini, but it's not super sweet and incredibly calorie dense. it's got fat, protein, fiber, and sugar. you don't need to eat a lot to get those nutrients, and it's not strongly flavored so it's easy to eat when I'm nauseous.

you can get flavors like pistachio or chocolate, but I'm partial to plain halva with a cup of chai. I've started seeing it in mainstream stores (albeit overpriced) but it's available at most Middle Eastern or European groceries

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the state of Israel is a long form political tragedy however Israeli food is a very real category and the best food on earth. Recognizing this is what being an adult with complicated opinions is all about

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it's incredible how i grew up on this amazing flavourful, hearty arabic food and yet my comfort meal is this

plain pasta with hard cheese that my grandma salts and grates

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'Luxury Foods' in Medieval Islamic Societies by David Waines from World Archaeology, Vol. 34, No. 3, Luxury Foods (Feb., 2003)

"We may begin with the work entitled The Meadows of Gold written by the famous historian al-Mas'udi (d. AD 956). He was born in Baghdad and died in Cairo, having, in between, travelled widely in Persia and India in addition to Iraq, Palestine and Syria. The Meadows of Gold contains a number of anecdotes related to food. One involves the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid (d. AD 809), of 1001 Arabian Nights fame. He was invited to dine by his brother Ibrahim b. al-Mahdi (d. AD 853), a noted poet and culinary expert, of whom more later.

Harun was served a dish of what appeared to be small and delicate slices of fish arranged in the shape of a fish. When informed that the dish was made from more than 150 fish tongues, the Caliph demanded to know its price and commanded that an equivalent of 1000 silver dirhams be distributed to the poor. This was in expiation, he said, for his brother's wastefulness. Moreover, he ordered a servant to take the fish on its plate, itself an expensive item worth five times as much as the fish preparation, and give it to the first beggar he met in the street.

A second anecdote involves another Caliph, al-Mutawakkil (d. AD 861), who was relaxing one day with his courtiers and singers beside one of the many canals that traversed Baghdad. He smelled the aroma of cooking drifting from a pot being prepared by a sailor on his boat. The Caliph ordered the pot - a beef sikbaj, a sweet and sour stew dish, brought immediately to him. The Caliph sampled the stew with a piece of bread, as did his courtiers and singers, until the pot was empty. He then ordered the pot filled with 2000 dirhams and returned to the boat; the coins that did not fit into the pot were placed in a pouch and given directly to the cook. In the Caliph's judgement the dish was the best sikbaj he had ever tasted."

I found this excerpt incredibly lovely and highly recommend you check out the whole thing on JSTOR (free to access when you make an account but also on scihub). Doing a short article review on it for my Global Connections module - covering Islamic history briefly has really touched me especially when I covered it quite begrudgingly as a child/pre-teen through Saturday-Sunday school. It was always a tug of war with my mother to make me go until at 16 I finally just refused outright and there was nothing she could do. Admittedly out of all the classes taught at the mosque Tahrikh and Seerah always engaged me. I'm glad I can revisit it with a warm heart and with no expectation to be something I'm not so I can love share and appreciate it with fresh eyes.

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Syrian Shakriyeh