Palestinian Territories

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Palestinian Territories

3 recipes

Palestinian Taboon-style home-method wheat flatbreads, round, gently dimpled and browned in spots.

Taboon bread (Palestinian home method)

This Palestinian taboon method makes six small wheat flatbreads with a sticky yeast dough, fingertip dimples and a very hot domestic oven surface.

Palestine
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Shatta.
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Shatta

Shatta is a Palestinian chilli paste with many household forms. Abeer Najjar’s family-inspired version oven-dries salted fresh chillies, then mixes them with vinegar and olive oil for a source-described room-temperature ferment.

Palestine
· Condiments
A golden, elongated oval sesame-coated Jerusalem ka’ak al-Quds bread ring on warm ivory.

Ka’ak al-Quds (sesame ring bread)

Palestinian milk-enriched wheat rings coated in sesame and grape molasses, shaped into long ovals and baked without a bagel-style boil.

Jerusalem
· Grains and starches