Lebanon
Baalbek Meat Pies
صفيحة بعلبكية
Small open-faced pies with a topping of minced lamb, tomato, onion and pomegranate molasses, baked in a hot oven.
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Baklava
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.
Lebanon
Cheese Knefeh in Sesame Bread
كنافة بالجبنة
Melted sweet cheese under a layer of semolina or shredded pastry, soaked in blossom syrup and served inside a sesame bread roll for breakfast.
Lebanon
Cheese Rolls
رقاقات
Thin pastry rolled into cigars around salty white cheese and parsley, then deep-fried until blistered.
Homs, Lebanon
Halawet el Jibn
حلاوة الجبن
Soft cheese dough rolled around ashta, cut into small pieces and drenched in orange-blossom syrup with pistachios; an Egyptian form of the Levantine sweet.
Nablus, Palestine
Knafeh
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.
Lebanon
Sambousek
سمبوسك
Half-moon pastries filled with minced lamb, onion and pine nuts, crimped shut and fried or baked.
Lebanon
Spinach Triangles
فطاير سبانخ
Triangular pastries filled with spinach, onion and sumac, pinched into three corners and baked.