Menu - Arabic food in Timișoara

Starters

A bowl of hummus with whole chickpeas and olive oil pooled in the centre, served with slices of pita bread

Hummus

Smooth chickpea cream with tahini and lemon, served with olive oil.

Tabbouleh salad with finely chopped parsley, bulgur, tomato and cucumber, served in a bowl

Tabbouleh

Finely chopped parsley salad with bulgur, tomatoes, mint and lemon.

Fattoush salad with crisp pieces of fried bread, chopped greens, cucumber and tomato, drizzled with pomegranate dressing

Fattoush

Fresh vegetable salad with crispy pieces of Lebanese bread and sumac.

Fried falafel balls, cut in half to show the green interior

Falafel

Chickpea and herb balls, fried crisp on the outside.

Boiled fava beans topped with olive oil, lemon and garlic

Ful medames

Boiled fava beans with olive oil, lemon, garlic and cumin.

Main dishes

Mansaf with lamb on a bed of rice, drizzled with yogurt sauce

Mansaf

Lamb or veal cooked in jameed yogurt sauce, with rice and almonds.

Maqluba turned out upside down, with slices of roasted tomato and chopped parsley over the rice

Maqluba

Rice with eggplant, cauliflower and chicken, layered and flipped upside down when served.

Spiced rice with peas, carrot and minced meat, sprinkled with toasted nuts

Ouzi rice

Spiced rice with peas, carrot, minced meat and toasted nuts.

Pieces of chicken over Palestinian couscous, with chickpeas, potatoes and carrots, in a white bowl

Maftoul

Palestinian couscous with roast chicken, pumpkin, onion and chickpeas.

Pieces of chicken with caramelized onion and sumac, on taboon bread with pine nuts

Musakhan

Chicken with sumac and caramelized onion, over flatbread, with pine nuts.

Baked beef kofta with potatoes and onion, covered in tahini sauce

Baked kofta with tahini

Baked beef kofta with potatoes and onion, in tahini sauce.

Pieces of browned chicken on orange spiced rice, with almonds, parsley and lemon slices, on a ceramic plate

Kabsa

Spiced rice cooked with chicken, tomatoes and warming spices.

A whole chicken stuffed with rice and minced meat, roasted in the oven

Roast chicken stuffed with rice

Whole chicken stuffed with extra-spiced rice, roasted in the oven.

A whole chicken cut into pieces, with char marks from the grill, on a white plate beside a bowl of green sauce

Roast chicken

Oven-roasted chicken with spices, tender and simple.

Grilled marinated chicken skewers, with flame marks and chopped parsley on top, on a white plate

Shish taouk

Marinated chicken breast skewers, seared on the griddle, tender and fragrant.

A chicken shawarma wrap cut in half, with fries, white sauce and pickles, in toasted flatbread

Chicken shawarma wrap

Rotisserie chicken, rolled in flatbread with fries, garlic sauce and pickles.

Pieces of browned chicken arranged over bread and rice, sprinkled with parsley and toasted almonds

Chicken fatteh

Layers of taboon bread and rice with browned chicken, yogurt sauce and toasted almonds.

Slices of beef tongue arranged over rice with almonds and cashews, on a metal tray

Beef tongue fatteh

Beef tongue served over rice and taboon bread, with almonds and cashews.

Pastries and sides

A stack of za'atar manakish with sesame, on a plate with slices of pink pickled vegetables, lemon and mint

Manakish za'atar

Flatbread baked with a za'atar and olive oil blend.

Flatbread with melted white cheese on top

Manakish with cheese

Flatbread baked with melted white cheese.

Fried kibbeh, diamond-shaped, arranged on lettuce leaves

Kibbeh

Crisp bulgur shells filled with spiced minced meat, fried golden.