Middle Eastern Cuisine

Middle Eastern cuisine includes a number of cuisines from the Middle East. Common ingredients include olives and olive oil, pitas, honey, sesame seeds, dates, sumac, chickpeas, mint, rice and parsley, and popular dishes include kebabs, dolmas, falafel, baklava, yogurt, doner kebab, shawarma and mulukhiyah.
The exact countries considered to be part of the Middle East are difficult to determine. Currently, the countries that are considered to comprise the Middle East are: Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Palestine, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, including the various ethnic, cultural, religious and ethno-linguistic groups within these nations.

Varieties
Arab cuisine | Assyrian cuisine | Bahraini cuisine | Balochi cuisine | Cypriot cuisine | Eastern Arabian cuisine | Egyptian cuisine | Emirati cuisine | Iranian cuisine | Iraqi cuisine | Israeli cuisine | Jordanian cuisine | Kurdish cuisine | Kuwaiti cuisine | Lebanese cuisine | Levantine cuisine | Omani cuisine | Palestinian cuisine | Pontic Greek cuisine | Qatari cuisine | Saudi Arabian cuisine | Syrian cuisine | Turkish cuisine | Yemeni cuisine

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