Souk to Table: Traditional Middle Eastern Dishes for Everyday Meals

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Souk to Table brings the vibrant flavors and bold spices of Middle Eastern cuisine to your table with over 100 easy-to-follow recipes.


Ripe with food history, Middle Eastern cuisine holds some of the most stunning and delicious dishes in both modern and traditional cooking. Amina Al-Saigh shares recipes inspired by her heritage, using her expertise to create simple and flavorful recipes for modern-day home cooks. This homestyle cookbook gathers the best of the region, from Iraq, Turkey, Israel and more that are sure to invigorate your taste buds and bring a bit of culture to your everyday meals.


The flavors speak for themselves as you explore the wide variety of spices and ingredients you may have never played with before. With beautiful full-color photos of each recipe, be inspired to present these dishes at family banquets, holidays, and weekly dinners. Covering a variety of methods, from air fryer to Instant Pot to sheet pan, the instructions are designed to be quick and easy for beginner and busy chefs alike. Not only will you get to flaunt your cooking skills, but you also spend half the time and still get all the credit. Including options for everyone, you and your taste buds are sure to enjoy the cuisines from another world away in the comfort of your own kitchen.


Rich with aromatic spices, some of the traditional dishes include:
Joojeh Kabab (Persian chicken kabobs)
Namoura (Basbousa semolina cake)
Jalik (Cucumber, yogurt, and mint salad)
Mtabbaq Simach (Iraqi Fish Biryani)
Dawood Basha (Meatball stew)
Baklava Cheesecake
Lazy Cake
Turkish Coffee
Karkadee (Hibiscus Iced Tea)
and More!


Adventure across the world through accessible recipes with Souk to Table as your guide. These mouthwatering Middle Eastern recipes are sure to leave you craving more!

Author Bio

Amina Al-Saigh is a wife and mother of two, and she loves to share modern and simplified recipes that are approachable and utilize beautiful, fresh ingredients and delicious Arabic spices.

Amina is from Mosul in Northern Iraq, but she has spent most of her life in Canada. Her blogging adventure started when she was on maternity leave with her son, when she wanted to shed some of those stubborn pregnancy pounds and share healthier recipes to motivate herself. Since then, she has fallen in love with sharing her food and photography with the world. She now has a large Instagram following of 104,000 @hungrypaprikas as well as over 122,000 monthly page views on her blog!
Most of the recipes she shares are inspired by her Middle Eastern heritage, using flavors she knows and loves. But you won't catch her sharing super time-consuming recipes. She likes to find creative ways to simplify these complex dishes so she can still enjoy them and manage her sanity!
She loves to travel and explore food from all over the world. She spent five years living in London and continued traveling around Europe. She truly believes that food brings people together-it's a global language that can bring with it happiness and peace.