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Briam
Sliced summer vegetables baked slowly in a great deal of olive oil until the edges blacken and everything collapses together.
- Time
- 2h 15m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Easy
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10 entries filed under this tag.
Recipes
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Cacık
Turkish yoghurt with cucumber, garlic and dried mint, loosened with cold water until you can drink it or spoon it.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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Dolma
Vine leaves rolled around herby rice and simmered under a plate. Undercooked rice going in is what makes them tight going out.
- Time
- 2h 50m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Involved
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Gigantes Plaki
Big white beans baked in tomato and olive oil until the sauce reduces to a jammy skin and the beans turn creamy.
- Time
- 14h 30m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Moderate
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soup
Harira
Moroccan tomato, lentil and chickpea soup thickened at the end with a flour slurry that turns it velvety rather than merely thick.
- Time
- 14h
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Moderate
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Imam Bayildi
Whole aubergines split, stuffed with sweet onion and tomato, and braised in olive oil until they can be cut with a spoon.
- Time
- 2h 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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baking
Socca
A single thin chickpea pancake baked in a screaming-hot pan until the edges blister black and the middle stays custardy.
- Time
- 2h 25m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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baking
Spanakopita
Spinach salted and wrung dry, bound with feta and egg, layered between buttered filo. The wringing is the whole recipe.
- Time
- 1h 55m
- Serves
- 8
- Effort
- Involved
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weeknight
Stuffed Peppers
Halved rather than hollowed, filled with underdone rice that finishes in the oven, and roasted uncovered until the edges char.
- Time
- 1h 20m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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Zaalouk
Moroccan aubergine and tomato cooked right down to a dark, garlicky jam. It is finished when a spoon leaves a clean trail.
- Time
- 1h 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate