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A Middle East Feast

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Embrace the comfort factor of a Middle Eastern rice pudding

Creamy rice embraces nuts, spices and sweet syrups in these breakfast and dessert favourites.

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For a few or a feast: embrace the spirit of a Middle Eastern breakfast

From fragrant rice bowls to vegan Turkish mince with hummus, bring the generous, full-flavoured joy of a Middle Eastern breakfast to your table.

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Introducing brik, the Tunisian pastry you've probably eaten but never made

Commonly mistaken for filo or puff pastry, brik is a Tunisian specialty that is enjoyed with different sweet and savoury fillings across the Middle East.

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11 tasty ways to use up leftover Lebanese bread and pita

From comfort bakes to zesty salads, here are some of our favourite ways to use up a few flatbreads.

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Episode guide | A Middle East Feast with Shane Delia

Award winning chef Shane Delia hosts A Middle East Feast, drawing upon a multitude of cultural influences to recreate Middle Eastern food traditions.

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Middle Eastern

Smoked hummus with mushrooms and almonds

Turn your favourite bowl of hummus into a charcoal-scented treat with a few drops of liquid smoke. The hummus makes a great snack as-is but a mushroom topping...

Israeli

Malabi

Malabi is a sweet milk pudding that can be eaten plain but is often topped with a rose-scented fruit syrup. Ehud Malka takes his to the next level with...

Moroccan

Chraime

This spicy fish stew has origins in the state of Libya with the name chraime deriving from the Arabic word for hot.

Middle Eastern

Carob glazed carrots with toasted hazelnuts

Often touted as a healthy alternative to chocolate, carob is so much more. The earthy caramel flavours pair well with savoury food, much like chocolate in a...

Middle Eastern

M'hencha with halva, white chocolate and almonds

M'hencha is a filo pastry snake, rolled with a rich almond, white chocolate and ginger filling, with a few drops of rosewater for fragrance. Dress with rose...

Middle Eastern

Knafeh

Knafeh is a beautiful and intriguing Middle Eastern dessert made with stringy kataifi pastry and filled with mozzarella cheese.

Middle Eastern

Riz bi haleeb

This Middle Eastern rice pudding is sweetened with a boozy anise liquor-flavoured sugar syrup and fresh strawberries atop.

Middle Eastern

Yoghurt and lemon ice-cream

Standing somewhere between ice-cream and frozen yoghurt, Shane likes to pair this frozen dessert with a slice of sweet, crispy m'hencha.

Turkish

Turkish eggs with basturma and spicy capsicum

These stunning-looking boiled eggs are rolled in dill and served atop a hot mix of roasted capsicum, thin slices of basturma and Aleppo pepper for a good kick.

Middle Eastern

Haloumi wrapped in kataifi with honey and lemon dressing

As if haloumi wasn't amazing on its own, we wrap it in stringy pastry, deep-fry it, then slather on a divine honey, pine nut and lemon dressing.

Middle Eastern

Fatteh

A dish popular in Egypt and the Levant, fatteh consists of zesty chickpeas and a garlic yoghurt heaped over toasted flatbread, dressed with toasted almonds and...

Middle Eastern

Breakfast side dishes

These side dishes often accompany other centerpieces like haloumi wrapped in kataifi pastry and Turkish eggs rolled in dill with bastourma and capsicum.

Sensational Spice Journeys

From Moroccan medinas, Turkish meyhanes, to the kitchens of southern Spain, we reminisce and bask in the spice sensations that Shane Delia splashed over our screens. #SpiceJourney

Spice 101

Spice merchant diaries

Find out about the history of spices used in Middle Eastern cooking and the dishes they can be found in.

Get to know Shane

His arm tattoo means "hospitality"

You’d be hard-pressed to find a chef who's more committed to the idea of ‘hospitality’ than Shane Delia, who has the word tattooed on his upper arm. ‘Fortis et...

The final spice delights

Shane Delia's Moorish Spice Journey

In his latest spice journey, Australian chef Shane Delia heads to Morocco and southern Spain to discover the region's mix of Moorish flavours. Find out where...

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Then there was Turkey...

In the second stage of Shane’s odyssey through the Middle East, Shane Delia travels to exotic and mysterious Turkey.

Where it all began...

Follow Shane through Malta, Lebanon and Iran

You’d be hard-pressed to find a chef who's more committed to the idea of ‘hospitality’ than Shane Delia. Let Shane take you on a culinary pilgrimage to explore...