The authentic version of this sweet, fragrant bean salad requires about three times as much olive oil.
Fragrant fennel salad brought a confident sweet-sharp mix of fennel chips, sweet walnuts and pecorino, but olive oil was missing from the highly astringent lemony dressing.
Rather than think about it, we tucked into the fiery fish curry, yellow dal made with coconut milk and flecked with onions, cucumber curry and a fragrant local salad called gova mallung, which is made with finely shredded cabbage, onion, turmeric and freshly grated coconut.
Instead, make this fragrant meat salad ― flavored with garlic, lemongrass, chiles and peanuts ― that you can wrap in lettuce for a healthy dinner that's not only delicious, but quick to make, too.
A portion of mung beans was delicious, as was a fragrant wild oregano salad, a simple hummus, an eggplant salad and purslane drowned in tangy yogurt.
Two baby octopuses, straight from the grill, come with a bright tabbouleh salad fragrant with parsley and mint.
Fragrant, crisp celeriac salad marked the center of a platter of mild house-smoked fish -- a dazzling assortment that included shrimp, scallops, salmon and tuna.
For this week's City Kitchen column, there's a summery grilled chicken and eggplant salad, fragrant with ginger and sesame, and spiked with lime and hot pepper, perfect for this sultry weather.
Top-notch appetizers include foul, the Egyptian bean salad fragrant with cumin and garlic; fresh yogurt with mint and cucumber; spicy Palestinian air-dried beef; peppery ground-meat pie wrapped in phyllo, and mild little Syrian lamb sausages.
Top-notch appetizers include foul, the Egyptian bean salad fragrant with cumin and garlic; fresh yogurt with mint and cucumber; spicy air-dried beef; peppery ground-meat pie wrapped in phyllo; and mild little Syrian lamb sausages.
