Lebanese cuisine enjoys the greatest popularity in the countries of the Middle East. Many dishes can be referred to category of healthy food as for preparation are used meat, a bird, a fresh fish and seafood, vegetables, bean which are processed by roasting or boiling.
Use in food of mutton, veal, goat's meat, a bird is characteristic of Lebanese cuisine. Muslim Arabs don't eat pork. Fish, eggs, vegetables, rice dishes, lactic products are popular. Food is cooked on vegetable oil, generally on olive. In a large number onions, pepper, a savoury herbs are used. Traditional foods are meat soups with rice and haricot, kibb (meat dish), porridge from grain булгур - the firm wheat processed by boiled water, which is dried up and steamed. To a meal surely serve bread. From drinks tea, unsweetened coffee with spicery, amasi, and from sweeties - halvah, candied fruits are popular.
Try to prepare one of popular dishes of Lebanese cuisine - a kibba. For this purpose it is required:
- low-fat meat (forcemeat) - 500 g; - булгур (grain from firm wheat) - 2.5 articles;
- cinnamon - 0.5 tsps; - onions - 1 piece; - mix vegetable and a desi - 0.5 articles; - a fragrant sprinkling pepper – 0.5 tsps; - salt - 1 tsp; - butter - 1/4 St.
For a stuffing: - mincemeat - 500 g; - onions - 2 pieces; - discharge. oil - 1 article; - salt - 1 tsp; - ground allspice - 0.5 tsps; - fried pine nuts - 1 article; - black pepper. Make a stuffing. Stew onions on a desi, on slow fire. Then add forcemeat, salt, pepper, fry mix of 15 more minutes. Switch off fire, put pine nuts in a stuffing and stir. Wet булгур and when it inflates, cast away on a sieve. Mix mincemeat and the crushed onions, add булгур, knead weight hands. Then mix the mixer, salt, pepper. Again knead weight hands. Divide it into 8 equal parts, from everyone roll balls. Make thick flat cakes of four balls and put them on the baking tray oiled. On each of them lay out a stuffing. Cover them with flat cakes which will turn out from the remained balls. On everyone put from above an oil piece. Put a dish for half an hour in the oven warmed to 200oc.
Baked kibb give on a table hot.
Preparation of stewed eggplants in Lebanese will require the following products: - eggplants - 1 kg; - chick-pea (tinned or boiled) - 1 article; - tomatoes - 1 kg; - onions - 2 pieces; - garlic - 16 Zubkov; - dried mint - 2 tablespoons; - раст. oil - 2 articles; - chili pepper - 1 piece; - salt - 1 tsp; - it is a little sugar. Wash eggplants, cut off a fruit stem, slice them lengthways, salt and leave for half an hour. Then wash out, dry and fry in oil, at the same time it has to cover slices completely. Dry them a paper towel. In the same oil fry the cut garlic (10 cloves) and onions ringlets. Add chick-pea, tomatoes, sugar, Chile, salt. When mix begins to boil, boil it 5 minutes, put eggplants, close a cover and extinguish on moderate fire within 10 minutes. Mix mint with the remained cut garlic. Season with mix a dish. Extinguish 2 minutes, after that take out chili pepper. It is possible to give eggplants to a table.
Before giving stewed eggplants on a table, they need to be cooled.
Prepare a dish of Lebanese cuisine - rice, tomatoes and paprika cream soup. The following products will be necessary: - tomatoes - 80 g; - rice - 30 g; - cream - 40 g; - an egg yolk - 1 piece; - a paprika - 40 g; - butter - 10 g; - salt. For white sauce: - milk - 250 ml; - butter - 20 g; - flour - 20 g; - pepper; - salt. Make white sauce. Kindle a desi in a saucepan, pour flour, mix also to a spasseruyta on small fire, constantly stirring slowly. Flour has to gain golden color. Remove a saucepan from fire and gradually pour in milk. Then add salt, spices, stir and bring to the boil. Boil sauce within 3 minutes. Boil rice. Scrape pepper seeds and a fruit stem, bake it in an oven until ready. Scald tomatoes boiled water, husk, slice, extinguish in a frying pan to softness. Then cool, mix with rice. Turn mix into puree by means of the blender. Fill in with white sauce, add the baked pepper cut by straws, butter, cream, the crushed vitellus, salt and mix. The dish is ready.