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Lebanon
بقلاوة
Layers of paper-thin phyllo brushed with butter and filled with chopped walnuts or pistachios, baked crisp then drenched in lemon- or rose-scented sugar syrup. One square, cut diamond-small, is the shared Ottoman dessert of the whole eastern Mediterranean.
Nablus, Palestine
كنافة
Sweet cheese pastry with vermicelli-like kataifi dough, soaked in sugar syrup, often topped with pistachios, crispy shredded dough with melted cheese center and proper syrup soaking, a beloved Arab dessert.
Jordan
مكمورة
Layers of thin dough packed with onion, sumac, olive oil and chicken and baked until the top browns and the onions collapse.
Nablus, Palestine
تمرية
Filo dough wrapped around mastic-flavoured semolina pudding, fried until crisp and dusted with powdered sugar and crushed pistachios — a Nablus specialty.
Jordan
وربات
Squares of layered filo filled with semolina custard or cream, baked and drenched in sugar syrup, then dusted with pistachio.