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Mezze is a social style of eating built around several small dishes served together. Lebanese mezze can include hummus, salads, dips, vegetables, grains, and grilled foods, allowing a meal to offer many flavors and textures.
Mezze is not simply a list of appetizers. It is a way of sharing food and creating variety around the table. Cold dishes may appear alongside warm preparations, with bread used to scoop dips and accompany vegetables, legumes, and other dishes.
Combine fresh salads with legumes, dips, vegetables, and one or two more substantial dishes. Offer different textures and use lemon, herbs, garlic, and spices to create contrast without making every dish rich.
Many mezze dishes can be prepared ahead, making them practical for gatherings. Keep fresh herbs, crisp vegetables, and bread separate until serving, and refrigerate perishable dishes promptly.
Traditional Mediterranean appetizers and sharing plates.
A classic Baba Ganoush recipe made with smoky roasted eggplant, tahini, garlic, fresh lemon juice, and extra virgin olive oil. This creamy Mediterranean mezze is rich, flavorful, and naturally plant-based.
This Muhammara recipe is a traditional Aleppine Syrian roasted red pepper and walnut dip made with roasted red peppers, toasted walnuts, pomegranate molasses, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, cumin, and warm spices. Thick, smoky, sweet-tart, and richly textured, this easy Levantine mezze is perfect with warm pita, vegetables, and other shared dishes.
A creamy labneh dip seasoned with fresh herbs, olive oil, garlic, and Mediterranean spices. Strained yogurt gives labneh its thick texture and tangy flavor, making it easy to spread across warm pita or serve as part of a mezze table.
Lebanese stuffed grape leaves filled with seasoned rice, herbs, vegetables, and aromatic spices. The rolls simmer gently until the grape leaves are tender and the rice is fully cooked, making them a natural addition to a mezze table.
Lebanese spinach fatayer made with soft dough and a savory filling of spinach, onion, lemon, herbs, and sumac. The pastries are shaped into open boat-like forms and baked until the dough is lightly golden and the filling is tender.
A Lebanese cheese fatayer recipe made with soft whole wheat dough, Akkawi cheese, reduced-fat mozzarella, feta, fresh parsley, oregano, and nigella seeds. The pastries bake into a golden crust around a warm, savory cheese filling and can be served for breakfast, mezze, snacks, or a light meal.
A healthy baked kibbeh recipe made with fine bulgur, lean ground beef, fresh herbs, pine nuts, and warm Lebanese spices. This oven-baked kibbeh bil sanieh has a tender bulgur-beef crust, savory filling, and golden finish with less oil than fried kibbeh.
A baked spinach sambousek recipe made with fresh spinach, onions, parsley, mint, lemon juice, and tangy sumac in a golden whole wheat pastry. These Lebanese spinach pastries are baked until crisp and golden, offering a lighter alternative to traditional fried sambousek.
This grilled halloumi with herbs and pomegranate recipe features golden halloumi with a crisp savory crust and soft center, finished with fresh parsley, mint, juicy pomegranate seeds, lemon, and extra virgin olive oil. An easy Mediterranean mezze recipe that balances salty grilled cheese with bright herbs, citrus, and naturally sweet-tart fruit.
This roasted cauliflower with tahini sauce recipe is a simple Lebanese-inspired mezze made with golden roasted cauliflower, creamy lemon-garlic tahini, cumin, extra virgin olive oil, toasted pine nuts, fresh parsley, and paprika. An easy vegetarian and naturally vegan Mediterranean side dish or appetizer with deeply roasted edges, bright lemon, and silky sesame sauce.
This healthy chicken makanek recipe combines lean ground chicken with garlic, fresh parsley, lemon juice, coriander, allspice, cinnamon, paprika, and black pepper for flavorful Lebanese-style chicken sausages. The small sausages are gently pan-seared until golden and fully cooked, making an easy high-protein mezze that is perfect with hummus, whole wheat pita, fresh vegetables, salads, pickles, and other Mediterranean dishes.
Grilled shrimp marinated with garlic, fresh lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, parsley, and Mediterranean herbs. The shrimp cook quickly over high heat, developing lightly charred edges while keeping their bright, savory flavor.
A traditional-style Lebanese makdous made with small eggplants, walnuts, garlic, red pepper, and extra virgin olive oil. The eggplants are softened, filled with a savory nut mixture, and left to mature until the flavors become rich and tangy.
