Middle Eastern cuisine
Sign in to saveAlso known as Middle Eastern food, cuisine of the Middle East, Middle Eastern cuisines, Middle-Eastern cuisine
type of regional cuisine
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- regional cuisine
- Subclass of
- Asian cuisine
- Location
- Near East
- Image
- Petra metzes.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cuisine of the Middle East
- topic's main category
- Category:Middle Eastern cuisine
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Encyclopedic overview
Middle East bakery in the 1910s. Photo by National Geographic
Middle Eastern cuisine includes a number of cuisines from the Middle East. Common ingredients include olives and olive oil, pitas, honey, sesame seeds, dates, sumac, chickpeas, mint, rice and parsley, and popular dishes include kebabs, dolmas, falafel, baklava, yogurt, doner kebab, shawarma and mulukhiyah.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Middle Eastern cuisine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.