Kafta b'thine—kafta balls cooked with tahini sauce and served with rice[2][3]
Kafta harra—kafta cooked in tomato sauce with potatoes, eaten alone or inpita bread
Qidreh orFukharat Qidreh is rice cooked with lamb meat or chicken with chickpeas, kurkuma, saffron, garlic and cardamom. Especially famous in Hebron. Served also on feasts, weddings and funerals. Traditionally made in clay pots in traditional old style stone ovens.
Mahshi lift—a specialty of Hebron, turnips stuffed with rice, minced lamb meat and spices, cooked in tamarind sauce[4]
Mandi—in the West Bank, made by cooking meat, rice and vegetables in an underground oven, as in other Arab States[5]
Mansaf—lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt and served with rice or bulgur
Maqluba—an "upside-down" dish, made with fried vegetables, meat (chicken/lamb) and rice
Zarb—same asmandi, but cooked under high pressure in an airtight oven, and usually rice is substituted by bread (influenced by Jordanians)[5]
Musakhan—largetaboon breads withchicken, red onions, pine nuts, sumac, and spices; a modern version is musakhan rolls, where the spices, chicken, sumac, toasted pine nuts, and red onion are rolled in saj bread
Shawarma—a dish consisting of meat cut into thin slices, stacked in a cone-like shape, and roasted on a slowly-turning vertical rotisserie or spit; with a spread of toum (garlic paste) wrapped in saj bread
Ka'ak—may refer to a bread commonly consumed throughout the Near East that is made in a large ring-shape and is covered with sesame seeds
Khubz—may refer to any type of bread. Breads popular in Arab countries include "pocket"pita bread andtandoor bread. The oldest known find of bread, by archaeologists in Northern Jordan, dates back 14,000 years
Pita—a family of yeast-leavened round flatbreads baked from wheat flour, common in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and neighboring areas
Markook—unleavened and usually made with only flour, water, and salt, and after being rested and divided into round portions, flattened and spread across a round cushion until it is thin then flipped onto thesaj
Taboon—an important part of Palestinian cuisine, traditionally baked on a bed of small hot stones ataboon oven
Ma'amoul (معمول)—shortbread pastries filled with dates, pistachios or walnuts[18]
Muhallebi (مهلبية)—a milk pudding, basic ingredients are rice, sugar, rice flour and milk
Qaṭayef (قطايف)—sweet dumpling filled with cream or nuts[18]
Saḥlab (سَحْلَب)—a flour made from the tubers of some near-extinct species of the orchid genusOrchis, used to make mucilaginous hot drinks and desserts; now many instantsahlab mixes are made with artificial flavoring since the true form is illegal
She'reya bil sukkar (شعيرية بالسكر)—sweetenedvermicelli[20]
Warbat (وربات)—a sweet pastry similar tobaklava, with layers of thin phyllo dough filled with custard[18]
Knafeh (كُنافة)—cheese pastry soaked in sweet sugar-based syrup made in Palestine
Kullaj (كلاج)—a dessert made from thin dough, shaped into layers or rolls with walnut,Nabulsi cheese, or pistachio as stuffing, which gets cooked inghee and then topped withqatir syrup[28][29]
Tamriyeh (تمرية)—a deep fried sweet made from unleavened, folded dough and filled with a semolina and butter filling[30]
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