Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking

Tehina: The Secret Sauce

• Basic Tehina Sauce
• Hummus
• Hummus Tehina
• Hummus with Fresh Beans and Lamb
• Hummus Pitryot
• Hummus Foul
• Hummus Masabacha
• Turkish Hummus
• Jerusalem Hummus
• Black Bass with Walnut Tarator
• Walnut Tarator
• Chicken Schnitzel with Passion Fruit and Amba Tehina
• Crudités with Green Tehina
• Seared Chicken Livers with Caramelized Onion Tehina
• Sweetbreads Wrapped in Chicken Skin with Black Garlic Tehina
• Green Beans and Mushrooms with Tehina, Lentils, and Garlic Chips
• Fried Potatoes with Harissa Tehina
• Fried Eggplant with Tehnia and Pomegranate Seeds
• Tehina Shortbread Cookies
• Halva
• Halva Mousse
• Huckleberry Compote
• Chickpea Brittle
• Tehina Semifreddo

Salatim: Vegetables Are Everything

• Israeli Pickles
• Israeli Salad
• Traditional Israeli Salad
• Mango, Cucumber, and Sumac-Onion Israeli Salad
• Israeli Salad Martini
• Israeli Salad Water
• Pickled Persimmons
• Traditional Tabbouleh
• Kale, Apple, Walnut, and Sumac-Onion Tabbouleh
• Simple Sumac Onions
• Quinoa, Pea, and Mint Tabbouleh
• Moroccan Carrots
• Bamya (Roasted Okra)
• Beets with Tehina
• Twice-Cooked Eggplant
• Charred Eggplant Salad
• Red Pepper Salad
• Potato Salad with Pickled Peppers
• Spicy Fennel Salad
• Roasted Zucchini with Anchovies, Feta, and Hazelnuts

Mezze: Hospitality Incarnate

• Watermelon and Feta Salad
• Stuffed Grape Leaves with Barley, Kale, and Pomegranate
• Fried Cauliflower with Herbed Labneh
• Crispy Haloumi Cheese with Dates, Walnuts, and Apples
• Baked Kashkaval with Sweet Tomato Relish and Egg Yolks
• Fried Potatoes and Okra with Kashkaval-Anchovy Dressing
• Smoked Sable Egg-in-the-Hole
• Latke with Gravlax
• Fluke Crudo with Olives, Grapefruit, and Fennel
• Baked Mozzarella “Kibbe” with Freekah and Green Peas
• Savory Konafi with Apple-Olive Salad
• Chicken Pastilla with Cinnamon and Almonds
• Crispy Sweetbreads with Chickpeas, Green Chiles, and Lemon
• Lamb Basturma
• Mina with Ground Beef, Cardamom, and Coffee
• Crispy Lamb’s Tongue with Grapes and Sugar Snap Peas
• Chopped Liver with Gribenes
• Fried Kibbe
• Kibbe Naya with Apples and Walnuts

Beyond Chicken Soup: The World in a Bowl

• Yemenite Chicken Soup
• My Chicken Stock
• Yemenite Beef Soupo
• Lachuch
• Matzo Ball Soup with Black Garlic
• Chicken Soup with Ghondi
• Kubbe Soup with Veal, Corn, and Zucchini
• Pink Lentil Soup with Lamb Kofte
• Fish Kofte in Broth
• Chraime
• Beluga Lentil Soup with Marrow Bones
• Pumpkin Broth in Fideos
• Celery Root Soup with Apples and Hawaij

Grandmother’s Borekas: Tradition Was My Teacher

• Borekas
• Boreka Dough
• Mushroom Borekas
• Potato and Kale Borekas
• Feta Borekas
• Challah
• Laffa and Pita in the Home Oven
• Salt Cod “Tarama”
• Tarator (Cucumber-Yogurt Soup)
• Pastel
• Seasoned Ground Beef
• Stuffed Peppers
• Tomatoes Stuffed with Dirty Rice
• Moussaka
• Basic Tomato Sauce
• Chicken Albondigas
• Agristada (Egg-Lemon Sauce)
• Fried Kashkaval Cheese
• Fritas de Prasa (Fried Leek Patties)
• Fried Artichokes
• Marzipan

Live Fire: As Close to Magic as I’ll Come

• Bulgarian Kebabs
• Romanian Kebabs
• Lamb Shishlik with Pistachio Tehina
• Pargiyot Three Ways
• Grilled Foie Gras
• Duck and Foie Gras Kebabs
• Chicken Livers with Baharat
• Duck Hearts with Cauliflower-Tehina Puree
• Lemonnana
• Lemon Verbena Soup
• Pomegranate-Glazed Salmon
• Grilled Branzino Fillets with Chickpea Stew
• Grilled Whole Eggplant
• Grilled Japanese Eggplant
• Brussels Sprouts with Feta
• Grilled Mushrooms

Ben-Gurion’s Rice

• Persian Rice
• Persian Rice with Black-Eyed Peas and Dill
• Persian Wedding Rice
• Freekah with Chicken and Almonds
• Israeli Couscous
• Rice Pilaf
• Pilaf with Carrots
• Pilaf with Kale
• Pilaf Coquelicot (Poppy Seed Pilaf)
• Mujadara
• Fideos Kugel

Mesibah: It’s Party Time

• Shakshouka
• The Zahav Lamb Shoulder
• Whole Roast Chicken with Laffa and Tehnia
• Whole Fish in Grape Leaves
• My Mom’s Coffee-Braised Brisket
• Yemenite Braised Short Ribs
• Salt-Baked Leg of Lamb

Milk & Honey: A Glimpse of the Divine

• Rugelach with Date Filling
• Rugelach with Peanut Butter and Marshmallow Fluff Filling
• Rugelach with Apricot Jam and Pistachio Filling
• Ma’amoul Tartlets
• Cashew Baklava Cigars
• Classic Konafi
• New-School Konafi with Chocolate Filling
• Mom’s Honey Cake with Apple Confit
• Carrot Basboosa with Hazelnut Crumble
• Chocolate-Almond Situation
• Poppy Seed Cake with Blueberries and Labneh
• White Chocolate Cake with Rhubarb, Labneh, and Sorbet
• Chocolate Babka
• Sachlab Drink
• Malabi Custard with Mango
• Cardamom-Vanilla Custard with Squash Confit and Huckleberries
• Turkish Coffee Ice Cream