80 Easy Middle Eastern Dishes

For the weeknight table, with lemon, olive oil and a little spice.

80 recipes from a skillet, a heavy pot and an ordinary oven, with no pork.

Q: What will I cook?
A starter: Black Tahini Hummus with Cumin-Yogurt Flatbread Wedges.
A weeknight: Sumac-Kissed Spatchcock Chicken with a pot of Siyez Wheat Bulgur Pilaf.
A meatless supper: Lemon-Cumin Lentil Soup with Pomegranate-Sumac Slaw.

Q: How is it organized?
Mezze, Dips and Salads: 18 recipes
Soups, Lentils and Chickpeas: 11 recipes
Rice, Pilafs and Couscous: 18 recipes
Tagines, Braises and Kebabs: 15 recipes
Vegetables and Sides: 18 recipes

Q: What is printed with each recipe?
Serves, with what one portion is
Time: the work, the cooking and any resting
Cook: stovetop, oven or both, and the oven heat
Keeps: days in the refrigerator, never more than 3
Safe at: the thermometer reading, on the chicken, beef, fish and shrimp pages
A nutrition line per serving from USDA FoodData Central: calories, protein, carbs, fat, sodium

Q: Anything else?
a page on pans and pantry
a chart of thermometer readings
six menus
a page of fixes
cup-to-metric conversions and an ingredient index
a first-night page that gets you started
a painted picture opening each chapter

Paperback copies are black and white inside; the pictures are in color in the hardcover and on Kindle.

80 Easy Middle Eastern Dishes offers Middle Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean home cooking information, not medical advice.