The Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookbook

It's a plus to have pictures of the finished product so you know what each recipe should look like when you try it out. The recipes are easy to follow and the description of some of the ingredients at the beginning of the book are very useful for those of us who have never heard of them before. I found this book enjoyable to read and an inspiration to vegetarian cooking.

The recipes are reliably delicious and several have made it into my regular rotation. They’re a fun departure from the norm while still mostly using ingredients you already have or can easily find. I enjoyed it so much I wound up giving a copy to someone as a Christmas gift, now they love it too!

I just received this cookbook today, after having studied it and others on the Amazon website. My doctor has suggested following a Mediterranean diet. Although this is not specifically a M DIET cookbook, there are plenty of sensible and delicious recipes that I am dying to try out. Ingredients are not hard to come by--you can order some from Penzey's, if you can't find them locally, but a decent Middle Eastern deli will probably carry most of them. Lentil stuffed grapeleaves. Potato and pea soup. Stuffed baby eggplants! My mouth is watering. I am gifting this is a friend who is interested in Mediterranean food and to another who is vegetarian. Great layout--one page recipes accompanied by great photos. Worried about what exactly follows the Mediterranean diet? You can download a M diet chart and use that to guide you. I am thrilled with this purchase.

Good balance between taste, preparation time and healthy ingredients. I have tried more than 10 recipes and they mostly turned out good or very good. Reminds me of Ottolenghi’s Plenty, but more focused on Lebanese cooking. The menu is overlapping though - four different kibbeh recipes, four falafel recipes, three hummus recipes, the baba ganoush recipe is almost identical to the eggplant dip, etc. Comes across as if the author struggled with coming up a diverse menu. Not excited about replacing bulgur dishes with quinoa.

Love, love, love this cookbook, Want to try all of the recipes. Enjoyed the personal stories of her life and learned a lot about MidEastern spices and how they are used. Already tried the Quinoa Tabbouleh and the Falafel which were excellent. She includes pictures so you can see what your dish is supposed to resemble.Learning to combine fruit both dried and fresh into recipes that I never would have thought of. Yesterday I had the Minted Cucumber salad and added pomegranate seeds and pine nuts--really, really good.I ordered another Middle Eastern Cookbook, The New Persian Kitchen which I would rate just OK. I will probably donate it to the library. This book had lots of meat recipes which are OK and you can substitute legumes, but not enough pictures so it was hard to visualize the dishes. As a newbie to Middle Eastern food I needed more of an explanation with pictures to make me curious to try the food.

I had been looking for a good vegetarian Middle Eastern cookbook for a while, and when I saw this book on Amazon, I went to my local library to preview the book. The book has great recipes, the photographs are incredible, and the kibbeh recipes alone are the reason why I had to get this book. The recipes are fairly easy to make, and Salma Hage has also included some new dishes with a Middle Eastern twist. Love this book!

After checking this wonderful book from the library, I had to have it! Newto vegetarian cooking, & although I like meat, the recipes were deliciouswithout it. The photos are so enticing, that I am always looking at them & have made many. My favorites are Roasted Cauliflower with garlic-tahini dip, Asparagus & Feta Quiche, Quinoa Stuffed Peppers ( use Bob’s Red Mill quinoa- don’t have to rinse ), Spiced Apple & date crumble, and Pistachio walnut halva ( absolutely devine, butmine turned out like brittle twice & think it’s probably supposed to be more the consistency of fudge? ) . Soexcited to be using Lebanese 7 - spiceseasoning, cumin, coriander, sumac , pomegranate molasses, & tahini paste, za’atar & more listed in the glossary! And the little stories at the beginning of each recipe make themeven more special. Thank you Salma!

This book is amazing. The recipes are not overly complicated, easy to follow and, most importantly, delicious! The photos are beautiful and i love to read it as I would a book. The recipes are fresh and exciting and the anecdotes are interesting also. I highly recommend!