Iraq

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Iraq

4 recipes

Thick dark date syrup drizzling from a spoon into a ceramic bowl beside whole dates.

Date syrup and date pulp (dibs, silan family)

A thick, dark, very sweet syrup made from dates, known as dibs, rub, silan or date molasses. It sweetens tahini and desserts and glazes or sauces savoury dishes across the Middle East and North Africa.

Iraq
Fruit
A shallow ceramic bowl of thick golden-orange cooked ripe-mango amba with fine spice flecks.

Amba (ripe mango)

This cooked amba follows a Jewish Food Society recipe that simmers ripe mango with onion, garlic, mustard seed and warm spices into a tangy Middle Eastern condiment.

Iraq
· Condiments
Golden, sesame-topped Iraqi samoon breads with tapered diamond ends on a plate.

Iraqi samoun

Iraqi diamond-shaped yeast breads topped with sesame and baked in a home oven.

Iraq · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Soft Iraqi khubz tannour flatbread with toasted blisters on parchment in a home-oven setting

Iraqi khubz tannour (home oven)

A soft, water-only Iraqi wheat flatbread adapted for a domestic oven with parchment and a preheated baking stone or inverted sheet.

Iraq
· Grains and starches