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The Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook Hardcover – April 25, 2016

by Salma Hage (Author), Alain Ducasse (Contributor)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 364 ratings
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2017 James Beard Foundation Book Awards Winner: Vegetable Cooking

A collection of vegetarian dishes influenced by Middle Eastern flavors from Salma Hage, author of the bestselling classic, The Lebanese Kitchen, also published by Phaidon.

A definitive, fresh and approachable collection of 150 traditional recipes from an authoritative voice on Middle Eastern home cooking, Salma Hage’s new book is in line with the current Western trends of consciously reducing meat, and the ancient Middle Eastern culture of largely vegetarian, mezze style dining.

Traditionally, the Middle Eastern diet consisted largely of vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices, pulses, grains and legumes. Salma simplifies this fast becoming popular cuisine with easily achievable recipes, many with vegan and gluten-free options.

Drawing inspiration from ancient and prized Phoenician ingredients, from grassy olive oil to fresh figs and rich dates, this book offers an array of delicious breakfasts and drinks, mezze and salads, vegetables and pulses, grains and desserts. Salma shows how to easily make the most of familiar everyday fruits and legumes, as well as more exotic ingredients now widely available outside of the Middle East, with nourishing recipes so flavourful and satisfying they are suitable for vegetarians and meat-eaters alike.

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Salma Hage, a Lebanese housewife from Mazarat Tiffah (Apple Hamlet) in the mountains of the Kadisha Valley in north Lebanon, has over 50 years experience of family cooking. She learnt to cook from her mother, mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, and, having helped bring up her nine brothers and two sisters, would often cook for the whole family. She has also spent many years working as a cook and currently shares her time between London and Lebanon.

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Baba ganoush

Serves 4–6

Preparation time: 10 minutes + cooling time

Cooking time: 30–45 minutes

Preheat the oven to 400°F/200°C/Gas Mark 6. Put the eggplants (aubergines) onto a baking sheet, pierce them all over with a fork, then roast in the oven for 30–45 minutes, until soft. Once cool enough to handle, peel the skin off and discard. Set the flesh aside to cool completely.

Put the garlic into a mortar with a little salt and crush with a pestle, then add the tahini and lemon juice and mix well.

When the eggplant flesh is cool, chop it finely, transfer to a bowl, and add the garlic-tahini mixture. Season well and thoroughly combine all the ingredients. Place on a serving plate, then drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle on the pomegranate seeds.

Creamy, garlicky, and addictive, it is no wonder that baba ganoush is famous around the globe. For the perfect accompaniment, carefully toast some Pita Bread directly over a low gas flame of your stove and use to dip them in.

Ingredients

  • 3 eggplants (aubergines)
  • 2 small cloves garlic
  • 2 tablespoons Tahini
  • juice of ½ lemon
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • handful pomegranate seeds, for sprinkling
  • salt and pepper

150 traditional vegetarian recipes from the Middle East

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150 delicious recipes

This book is in line with the current Western trends of consciously reducing meat, and the ancient Middle Eastern culture of largely vegetarian, mezze style dining.

Drawing inspiration from ancient and prized Phoenician ingredients

From grassy olive oil to fresh figs and rich dates, this book offers an array of delicious breakfasts and drinks, mezze and salads, vegetables and pulses, grains and desserts.

Easy-to-cook dishes

"Recipes that are simple but zing with enticing, exotic flavours... Perfect light dishes for summer dining... Plenty to tempt even the most entrenched meat-eater." —The Lady

Editorial Reviews

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'Vibrant... Proves just how exciting veggie food can be. Heavenly.' - Independent.co.uk

'Another absolutely gorgeous cookbook from Hage (author of The Lebanese Kitchen) and the folks at Phaidon.' - SFGate

'A definitive, fresh and approachable collection of 150 traditioinal recipes from an authoritative voice on Middle Eastern cooking.' - The Jewish Vegetarian

'Authentic fair with some delicious flair.' - Guest of a Guest

'At last! A compendium of Middle Eastern dishes written especially for vegetarian cooks.' - Vegetarian Times

'A vegetarian take on the exciting flavours of the Middle East.' - The Sunday Times

'Recipes that are simple but zing with enticing, exotic flavours... Perfect light dishes for summer dining... Plenty to tempt even the most entrenched meat-eater.' - The Lady

'A viable contender for the fun-yet-sensible, go-to encyclopedia for anytime you want to get your mezze on. It's comprehensive enough to feel like the only cookbook you should own, but it's bright, glossy, open and quite easy to browse.' - The Age

'Utterly delicious aromatic salads.' - Veggie

'Puts Middle Eastern vegetarian fare on the map.' - The National

'What is remarkable is that this book is full of ideas that are very now... Could it be that a woman in her seventies [...] has written this years most on trend cookery book.' - Waitrose Weekend

'The recipes have an ease and the ingredients are mainly familiar ones, but then comes a technique or a pairing that adds seductive allure or ingenuity.' - The Nashua Telegraph

'Authoritative but approachable.' - Vegetarian Living

About the Author

Salma Hage, a Lebanese housewife from Mazarat Tiffah (Apple Hamlet) in the mountains of the Kadisha Valley in north Lebanon, has over 50 years experience of family cooking. She learnt to cook from her mother, mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, and, having helped bring up her nine brothers and two sisters, would often cook for the whole family. She has also spent many years working as a cook and currently shares her time between London and Lebanon.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Phaidon Press; Illustrated edition (April 25, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714871303
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714871301
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.84 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.88 x 1.13 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 364 ratings

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Salma Hage is the James Beard Award-winning and best-selling author of The Lebanese Kitchen, The Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook, The Mezze Cookbook, and Middle Eastern Sweets. Originally from Mazarat Tiffah (Apple Hamlet) in the mountains of the Kadisha Valley in north Lebanon, she has over 50 years of experience of family cooking – learning to cook from her mother, mother-in-law, and sisters-in-law, while helping to raise her eleven siblings.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Eureka!!! I have found what I was looking for!!!
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2023
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I just received this cookbook today, after having studied it and others on the Amazon website. My doctor has suggested following a Mediterranean diet. Although this is not specifically a M DIET cookbook, there are plenty of sensible and delicious recipes that I am dying to try out. Ingredients are not hard to come by--you can order some from Penzey's, if you can't find them locally, but a decent Middle Eastern deli will probably carry most of them. Lentil stuffed grapeleaves. Potato and pea soup. Stuffed baby eggplants! My mouth is watering. I am gifting this is a friend who is interested in Mediterranean food and to another who is vegetarian. Great layout--one page recipes accompanied by great photos. Worried about what exactly follows the Mediterranean diet? You can download a M diet chart and use that to guide you. I am thrilled with this purchase.
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Sami
5.0 out of 5 stars Really enjoying this book!
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2016
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Love, love, love this cookbook, Want to try all of the recipes. Enjoyed the personal stories of her life and learned a lot about MidEastern spices and how they are used. Already tried the Quinoa Tabbouleh and the Falafel which were excellent. She includes pictures so you can see what your dish is supposed to resemble.
Learning to combine fruit both dried and fresh into recipes that I never would have thought of. Yesterday I had the Minted Cucumber salad and added pomegranate seeds and pine nuts--really, really good.
I ordered another Middle Eastern Cookbook, The New Persian Kitchen which I would rate just OK. I will probably donate it to the library. This book had lots of meat recipes which are OK and you can substitute legumes, but not enough pictures so it was hard to visualize the dishes. As a newbie to Middle Eastern food I needed more of an explanation with pictures to make me curious to try the food.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite cookbook
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2018
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After checking this wonderful book from the library, I had to have it! New
to vegetarian cooking, & although I like meat, the recipes were delicious
without it. The photos are so enticing, that I am always looking at them & have made many. My favorites are Roasted Cauliflower with garlic-tahini dip, Asparagus & Feta Quiche, Quinoa Stuffed Peppers ( use Bob’s Red Mill quinoa- don’t have to rinse ), Spiced Apple & date crumble, and Pistachio walnut halva ( absolutely devine, but
mine turned out like brittle twice & think it’s probably supposed to be more the consistency of fudge? ) . So
excited to be using Lebanese 7 - spice
seasoning, cumin, coriander, sumac , pomegranate molasses, & tahini paste, za’atar & more listed in the glossary! And the little stories at the beginning of each recipe make them
even more special. Thank you Salma!
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Ian
4.0 out of 5 stars Tasty vegetarian recipes
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2017
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This book definitely has tasty recipes. Especially the spicy tahini dressing on veggies has been a big hit. But there are 2 things that bother me: 1. At least one recipe is erroneously marked gluten free (wheat berry porridge). So I would definitely check the recipe thoroughly and not just rely on the little symbols. 2. The bean recipes are based on canned beans. I think it would be fine to offer the canned beans as an option but then give the recipe with actually cooking the beans. For example the lentil and bean soup: The directions state to cook the lima beans, black-eyed peas and green lentils "as directed on each package". And then to use them in the soup recipe. One plus is that the author does give the amounts of dried beans you would need and tells you to soak them overnight.
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Maegan
5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2022
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Still testing out these recipes but so far they are amazing!
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Peter Mamadjanian
5.0 out of 5 stars good job
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2022
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tank you great book
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P. L. Rao
5.0 out of 5 stars I had been looking for a good vegetarian Middle Eastern cookbook for a while
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2017
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I had been looking for a good vegetarian Middle Eastern cookbook for a while, and when I saw this book on Amazon, I went to my local library to preview the book. The book has great recipes, the photographs are incredible, and the kibbeh recipes alone are the reason why I had to get this book. The recipes are fairly easy to make, and Salma Hage has also included some new dishes with a Middle Eastern twist. Love this book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Recipes are easy to make and delicious
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2016
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THIS BOOK IS AMAZNG! I got the Lebanese Cooking by the same author first and then got this one. Recipes are easy to make and delicious. My husband is Lebanese and says it's authentic cuisine with some regional or fusion twist for certain recipes. If you're a vegetarian and you enjoy Lebanese food, you have to get this book!
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Claudia Cr
4.0 out of 5 stars Baba ganoush without smoked eggplants, why?
Reviewed in Brazil on December 1, 2022
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Baba ganoush without smoked eggplants, why?!
But... a lot of versatile and easy recipes.
So far, do not cooked any...
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elisabeth bordin
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational
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Schönes inspirierende Rezepte
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2023
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Great book, nice recipes well presented nice pictures. Highly recommended.
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Laura Camporeale
3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful photos, only a few interesting recipes
Reviewed in Italy on October 5, 2022
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I must say I love middle eastern kitchen and photos showed in this book make the recipes look superb. But reading them, you’ll find out they’re not so original as you thought they’d be. Some of them just revisit Mediterranean kitchen by adding eastern spices. I tried some recipes (namely sweet potatoes patties and quinoa kibbeh) and they turned out disgusting… just a few recipes tasted good (lentils “meatballs”). I had great expectations for this book, but it deceived me on many aspects…
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camille
5.0 out of 5 stars Je recommande
Reviewed in France on February 20, 2022
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Très contente de mon achat! Les recettes et ingrédients semblent accessibles. J'étais aussi contente de voir que la majorité des recettes semblent réalisables, je ne sais même pas par où commencer tellement il y a de recettes que j'aimerais essayer.
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