Lisa's Lemony Kitchen

 Turkish Eggs or Çılbır is an absolute delicious breakfast.    

Za'atar sometimes written as Zaatar , Zataar or Zahtar, is one of our favourite middle eastern spice! Za'atar is so easy to make with ingredients that you may have in your pantry.   

**Updated Post**. Perfect and elegant side dish to compliment your Middle-eastern, North African or Indian cuisines.

** Updated Post** These slow cooked lamb shanks are super easy to make on stove or using a crockpot. Delicious tender lamb shanks meat that fall off the bone.

Muhammara is a classic Levantine dip made from roasted sweet red peppers (Capsicum), Aleppo chilli, walnuts and pomegranate molasses.

Easy steps on How to make Preserved Lemons

A healthy, easy and delicious baked Chicken Kibbeh serve with tahini yoghurt sauce and salad.

Easy Shakshuka Recipe. Shakshuka originated from North Africa but popular in the Middle east, often serve as breakfast.

Delicious and exotic flavours of Saffron and rosewater ice-cream .

Easy Hummus recipe made from fresh ingredients.

A simple, flavorful homemade falafel recipe made with chickpeas, herbs, and spices.

Lebanese tabbouleh salad is s made with bulgur wheat, fresh herbs, tomatoes, lemon juice, and extra virgin olive oil.

Perfectly seasoned and spiced with homemade harissa paste for roasting chicken.

Chicken, fetta, and herbs wrapped in soft dough.

Aash Anaar or pomegranate soup, a warming, thick soup combined with fresh herbs.

Middle Eastern spices for Fish Casserole recipe.

Every summer ... and whenever I felt that I have overindulged during the holiday... I would whipped up this vegetable couscous... not that this vegetable couscous would make me lose kgs in an instance... how I wish ... but just to clear the 'guilty' conscience (is this ... the correct spelling??) if you know what I mean...  And every year I would be hunting hi and lo for Harissa Sauce . Worries no more... for I have them both carved in stone ... ehem... typed and posted in my blog... This recipe is taken from Healthy Weight Loss by Fiona Hunter ... basically one can add anything to this dish to make it wholesome and flavoursome, and at the same time clean up my crisper box in the fridge    Just to tickle my tastebuds... I chargrilled the sliced aubergine and capsicum... Recipe: 1 large aubergine (alternative ~ use baby aubergine) - thickly sliced 2 carrots - cut into strips 1 cup of cauliflower floret...

It can be quite frustrating... when your mind is set to cook a one particular dish... then upon running through the ingredients and found that the dish require that certain something... sauce or some fancy fresh produce!!! and equally frustrating when you drove all the way to the stores (be it Woollies or Coles or IGA) and they dont have it on the shelf... very frustrating indeed!!! Have you had that  "moment"... when you go aaarrrggghhh ...? I would include Harissa Sauce  in one of my 'aaaarrrrggghhh ' list... I have come across many recipes that uses Harissa Sauce but I have yet to see them making their appearances on the shelves... well I can only speak about the stores around my place ... give and take 5 km in radius from my house...  That's when I started my hunt for the recipe... on the superspeed cyber highway... and came up with this  Harissa Sauce Recipe: 10 dried chilli -soaked 2 garlic - roughly chopped ...