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Cuisine

Middle Eastern Sunday dinners

The cooking of the eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf: grains, pulses, herbs used by the handful rather than the sprig, and sourness from lemon, pomegranate or sumac in place of the vinegar Europe reaches for. It produces some of the best vegetarian food anywhere, largely by accident of tradition, and it holds at room temperature better than almost any other cuisine — which makes it forgiving for a table that sits down late.

6 plans in the Sunday Gallery.

What Middle Eastern plans look like

Most common mains

  • chicken5
  • lamb1

How they're cooked

  • Roasted4
  • Pan-seared2

The plans

By cooking method

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