Syria recipes
Recipes from Syria: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Middle East
Harak Osbao Recipe: Syria's Sweet-and-Sour Lentil and Pasta Stew
How to make Syrian home-style harak osbao for 4: lentils and pasta layered with the sourness of tamarind and pomegranate molasses, finished with crisp onions and bread. The Damascus table and the story behind the name, household variations, choosing ingredients, cooking the lentils, balancing the sourness, fixes, and storage.
Middle East
Muhammara: Aleppo's Roasted Red Pepper and Walnut Dip
Muhammara is the red dip of Aleppo in northern Syria. This oven-roasted version stays thick, not watery, and covers roasting peppers and toasting walnuts, pomegranate molasses, Aleppo pepper substitutes, serving it as mezze, and storage.