/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19871463
It's really tasty.

Especially if you want to get more broad and expand it to "Mediterranean" (not including Italian), I think it's probably my favorite type of food

I like it. Nice fulfilling food that's easy on the digestive system.

>>19871463
Some of the lowest quality food in the entire world. Only appeals to simple minded tastelets and poor people.

>>19871567
t. guy who can't handle spice

>>19871463
Haven't had any the places that open up here only serve fried bullshit.

>>19871463
The GOAT cuisine.

>>19871463
I just had Indian food for the first time and I was blown away. Butter chicken if you were wondering

>>19871679
Make a thread about Indian food. India is not middle east.

>>19871463
it's the best

>>19871463
I like it...in doses. The tanginess can get a bit much day after day if you were to live somewhere like lebanon or isreal. I like the food a bit more towards Greece.

My favorite thing of all time is the smoky flavor and luscious texture of baba ghanouj, really.

>>19871463
Often very dry. The meat and the falafel are always dry as fuck

>>19871463
I really like indian food. Tandoori is amazing

>>19871463
of course. i love Israelis food!

>>19871463
Too swarthy for my tastes.

>>19871710
No, it's better east

>>19871753
>dry
>bad

Fucking third worlders drowning everything in sauce to cover the taste of rot. Fresh ingredients with a dry exterior is peak cooking.

Poor imitation of Indian food.

>>19871785
With a taste of feet

>>19871767
Stolen Palestinian food

>>19871799
loled

>>19871857
woah there cool it with the antisemitic remarks

I havent tried much because there's nobody middle-eastern where i live. I have made some dishes based on recipes like pilaf, kabob koobideh (ground lamb & beef with onions, sounds simple but the flavor & texture are amazing), and musakhan (chicken with caramelized onions and sumac on flatbread, also amazing).
Im actually going to be relocating to a city that's like 10% middle-eastern and will be interested to try the food and see what theyre really like after seeing so much /pol/ stuff against them.

>>19871463
The flavors are very explosive

>>19871897
kek

very good
I tried making toum but my food processor was too big
I made hummus

what else should I make bros

I am very interested in it
I figure the entry point is in making kebab but I have struggled to find the right skewers which is unfortunate

>>19871648
That's my wife you're talking about

>>19871844

>>19871463
PALEStinE FOREVER ALLAHU ACKBAR

>>19871463
Depends on what you define as ME. If I exclude India and the mediterranean, then absolutely fuck all about the ME cuisine is good.

Med. food is fantastic, it covers Italian, Greek, etc. and a peak global food cuisine. Indian is good for naan and curry, but they get points docked for being shitty with hygine. Their tea is also fucking abysmal compared to China and other areas. None of these areas qualify as ME though.

Maybe the Saudis are eating good shit & hogging it for themselves, but as for all the stuff that gets exported - its bottom tier garbage. Basically sits along Mexican food for thirdy cope food. Africa gets dead last for cuisine though, I'd take thirdy food over African food any day of the week.

>>19872335
Not trolling you idiot. They literally prepare food with their disgusting feet

>>19872482
I define middle east as middle east. If you do not know what or where middle east is just google it

I used to go to a lebanese place that was pretty good, some of the best hummus and flatbread I've ever had. Really good lamb and beef kebab as well

>>19872482
Who the fuck is exporting full dishes? Make it yourself with ingredients. All ingredients can be bought in the west. Are you a legit retard?

>>19871463
Like Mediterranean food but better, I only mark it down because of its obvious lack of pork.

>>19873860

Read again. Racism.

>>19871463
I know very little about it. Lebanese cuisine is top tier. On a par with Italy, Japan, Belgium and France. I adore Turkish cuisine - a perfect blend between millennia-old Greek cuisine and boorish steppe cultures. Jewish pastry is in a league of its own.

I couldn't cook myself without Algerian red wine, Tunisian hand-rolled couscous, chili pepper from Aleppo or Persian saffron. That's all I can tell you I'm afraid.

There is a Syrian place opened up in my local town, what are peoples thoughts? What would be a standout dish?

>>19873887
How is this racism?

>>19872482
I had Ethiopian food once and it was good. If you're talking about subsaharan though, I have no idea what even constitutes food there.

>>19873884
Pork is bad for you anyway.

>>19873893
Chicken shawarma wrap

Lebanese and Persian food are good, the rest is low quality garbage tier. Turkey had the worst food I've ever eaten and all the youtubers going there for food videos are paid shills.

>>19874127
Objectively wrong

Tabouleh is the greatest salad ever made

>>19871598
What spice? Frankincense? Fuck middle eastern food.

I like it, good variety and reasonably nutritious. When I have to go to the city I get a meal at a place that maybe isn’t authentic but has a lot of options. I usually go with a falafel wrap, add eggplant and feta with a side of taboulleh and hummus. Dish n Dash if any unlucky anons every have to go to the Bay Area.

>>19873860
>Read again. Racism

Probably my favorite restaurant ever was Middle Eastern Cuisine. It was called Phoenicia's and it was run by an extremely nice family. It was a great location. They had room for 40 tables. The food was amazing. Noone ever went there. I couldn't even drag my Mom who pretends to be open minded about food there. They of course closed down and I don't know what happened to them hopefully they found a better town that appreciated them.
No other greek or middle eastern food has ever measured up even half as good.

>>19871463
They have some amazing salads and they use a bunch of spices I like, especially cumin, cilantro and sumac.
They also use a lot of vegetables I like most notably eggplant, green peppers and okra (though okra usually comes out shit when I make it myself).
Sadly in terms of preparation it's a bit inconvenient. A lot of meat either needs an open flame grill or is stewed for a relatively long time. In general a lot of dishes are designed to be made in batches for larger groups of people, which is great for a party or large family, but shit for making on a weeknight. You can see that traditionally it was built around large families with a stay at home mom that had the whole day to cook.
Something I do appreciate about it is it's very error tolerant food. Added too much or zoo little of a particular spice or even had to leave some out/substitute? In french cuisine the balance of your dish would be fucked, but with middle eastern food it usually still tastes pretty good.
Overall I know too little middle eastern dishes, but the ones I do know I like a lot.

>>19871463
Pita bread and hommus on a rainy day is comfy

>>19872314
try making falafel, it's not very hard and you can spice it however you want

Shawarma is both healthy, filling and delicious, there's a Lebanese stand near my house and the toum they sell is insanely good

>>19871463
Some of it is really good.
But, some of it is just random slop mixed together until it's a vague mush.

>>19871463
PASS

It looks like food I already eat just prepared differently.

This is my view on all foods from different culture.
>chicken
>beef
>pork
>fish
>veggies
>greens
>spices

Its all the same inside.
Food mashed together by my teeth and digested by my stomach fluids.

>>19871463
Just stopped at one. Nothing fancy, just stuffed grape leaves and yogurt with olive oil. Delicious.