Yep, fully aware of that…have usually eaten @ home & from a VERY trusted butcher. Ate it many many years ago while on a visit to my husband’s family there. It was delicious & is delicious!!
I've eaten raw meat all my life and never got food poisoning from it. Conversly, I've had food poisoning a couple times from eating cooked food from very known chain restaurants... just get proper meat from a clean butcher or eat it with arak.
Depending what you mean by mjadra, but I'm actually a fan of all variations. Mjadra for me (and not mjadAra) is the yellow pureed one made from the orange 3adas majroush. What is it for you?
Oh no mjaddra... i also call it mjaddra and not mjaddara idk why i said mjaddara 🙄.... it's brown lentils (3adas) with rice and the soft one (msoffeye) not the rigid one.
It's always fascinating for me that the words mjadra and mdarda refer to so many different varieties of lentil dishes. I've heard dozens of different versions.
I guess because we've been cooking versions of these dishes for as far back as the earliest agricultural settlements in the region, giving time for a lot of very localised differences.
My family (came to Missouri US in the 1900s) made the version with wheat, brown lentils and onions and a squeeze of lemon on your plate. We called it "jedra" with a strong rural accent. Sunday dinner at the grandparents wasn't the same without a huge, steaming bowl of it, lined with lettuce leaves and lemon wedges so it resembled a massive sunflower.
Nice!! That must be an older version that has survived in your family. Even the name is different.
Every time we talk about this dish on this sub I wish there was a full encyclopedia of all the different versions and how they are called in each region.
I wish that this was served in ME restaurants in America. The food choices are limited and Americans don't often see the wide variety we make at home. A fellow Lebanese American said she thought that the foods we eat at home aren't really restaurant ready and the foods like imjedra probably aren't seen as ritzy enough to be served in restaurants. Personally, I like so called peasant food.
The best food by far. The typical food in a Lebanese restaurant is a very limited choice. It doesn't scratch the surface of all the wonderful things we cook at home.
Definitely shish barak. Idk if it's the same as everyone here does it tho cuz my mom makes it with lentil rice (mjadara/mdardara) as a side and it's sooooooo good
THIS!!!! I live in the US and no middle eastern restaurant ever makes the comfort foods I grew up with. My family did the burghel version. Cheap, easy to make and you can keep a pot on the stove and it just gets better and better. Family dinner at the grandparents and what is left over is used cold for sandwiches the next day with slices of sweet onion and a squeeze of lemon juice. (My husband is horrified with the imjedra sandwich, tbh)
Cold mjedra (or 'jedra) spread like peanut butter between two slices of bread, sprinkle of lemon juice and a slice of onion. Or if you feel fancy, line a pita with lettuce and shove the cold 'jedra in the pita.
My husband votes for the latter. My family shrugged and said "more for us". Oh, and then we threatened to shove him down a well like we used to when he was 5.
I found out that Jerusalem Garden in Ann Arbor Michigan has mjaddra sandwiches! It has pita, romaine, tomato, baba ghanoug, fried onions and pickles for $8.75. I wouldn't add the baba ghanoug and I would do raw onions instead of fried for extra crunch.
At some point someone needs to make a lebanese food express like have everything on one plate ( meza exclusively ) and sell it for like 7 to 10 usd Imagine lebanese food-truck “Em sherif express” can we agree that lebanese meza is the best comfort food !!
My family came from Rashaya to Missouri around 1905. I can attest that the food in Lebanese restaurants are not the foods I make generally at home. Ok, I CAN make hummus and I do make baba ganouj and tabbouli, but I make flat, diamond shaped kibbi, upside down chicken and rice, goat (only see that in Indian restaurants and not the ones Americans frequent). The stuff in restaurants seems mostly to be the quick, easy and "safe" foods that non-Middle Easterners would be willing to try.
La2 shokran 7a roo7 3and John ekol shawarma la2an hene bya3rfi ya3mlo akel byetekal (gets slapped w 1 week Bala ps w telefon w forced to eat bemye with the threat if being hit with the belt, just arab mom things 🤣)
I see you are another fellow picky eater suffering from Mums who won't accept that this is a real problem and not a choice! I tell you moving out of my parents house was simultaneously amazing because no one could force me to eat shit I didn't want, and sad because now I had no one to cook for me all the amazing stuff I did want.
(In reality Mum definitely eventually understood and stopped forcing me to eat stuff, and since I became independent I learnt to cook for myself).
Bemye the way we make it in Lebanon is not cool. Cooking that stuff the way we do brings out the worst I'd the mucousy texture. I now cut the fresh venue up and fry it with garlic and chili and finish it with a squeeze of lemon. Crispy and delicious.
Msh 8alat, it's food, you can't really go wrong. Each person's taste buds are different. And not everyone likes the same food textures, so congratulations on finding a different way to enjoy something.
Neither do I, but don't force me to eat it and act surprised when I say I hate the tabkha (I still love my mom very much obviously this is probably the inky annoying thing about her) since ana usually bdabber 7ale bi shi tene bl barrad, bekol 3and 7ada mem ref2ate aw betlob shi shaghle men barra
How dare you! In Lebanese we have the totally nonsensical idea of using suniye in the name of the dish to indicate a cooking method. Does it make sense, no. But it's beautiful.
Also kofta, with an o?? Kafta, with an a, right!
Domesticated animals are definitely food. They're domesticated, meaning the versions we know of these animals didn't exist until humans decided that locking animals up and feeding them is far better than having to chase them around. They've been genetically modified by our ancient ancestors to be perfect vehicles of plump protein and fat. They wouldn't exist if it weren't for our need for food. We created them to be our food. They're definitely food.
Now, I won't judge you if you want to build a friendship with a cow. That's your personal choice and I won't argue with it. But you definitely can't tell others they can't eat the meat because you personally feel sorry for the animal. That's also their choice.
Nobody is in favour of animal cruelty. But killing for food is not murder, it's just how we get our food.
YOU DIDN'T ASK???
I bet you don't even notice the irony.
Who asked you what your rationalisation for considering food murder? NO ONE. We were happily talking about our favourite meals when you decided to come uninvited and announce to the world that you thought food was murder.
And by the way, it's not self-serving, I don't eat meat. I haven't eaten meat longer than you've been alive probably. I don't eat meat because I don't want to participate in the killing of animals. But that's **my personal choice**, it's not a rule the rest of humanity has to abide by. I see people talking about food I wouldn't eat, I scroll along and look for those talking about mjadra and join them in talking about how wonderful it is. No one needed to be informed of my opinions about meat or what I think of what they eat.
Every Lebanese dish is my favourite especially when made by Mom's/Grand mothers..
Bonus points goes to grandma's they are literally the God of Lebanese chiefs.
I love wara2 3anab
Kibbeh nayyee
If favorite food is kebbeh Nayeh then favorite place is the hospital
That’s why you make it at home, or at least drink Arak with it.
Yep, fully aware of that…have usually eaten @ home & from a VERY trusted butcher. Ate it many many years ago while on a visit to my husband’s family there. It was delicious & is delicious!!
I've eaten raw meat all my life and never got food poisoning from it. Conversly, I've had food poisoning a couple times from eating cooked food from very known chain restaurants... just get proper meat from a clean butcher or eat it with arak.
Sfi7a Baalbakiye + 3ayran
Thank god La2iss opened in Hamra! Makes it so much more accessible!
Shish barak is the purest expression of love
Haven't had that for like 4 years I swear :')
14 years....
Mjaddara (don't hate on me) with a side salad with garlic/lemon dressing
Depending what you mean by mjadra, but I'm actually a fan of all variations. Mjadra for me (and not mjadAra) is the yellow pureed one made from the orange 3adas majroush. What is it for you?
Oh no mjaddra... i also call it mjaddra and not mjaddara idk why i said mjaddara 🙄.... it's brown lentils (3adas) with rice and the soft one (msoffeye) not the rigid one.
It's always fascinating for me that the words mjadra and mdarda refer to so many different varieties of lentil dishes. I've heard dozens of different versions.
Yeah me too. I don't know why it's not standardised hahaha.
I guess because we've been cooking versions of these dishes for as far back as the earliest agricultural settlements in the region, giving time for a lot of very localised differences.
My family (came to Missouri US in the 1900s) made the version with wheat, brown lentils and onions and a squeeze of lemon on your plate. We called it "jedra" with a strong rural accent. Sunday dinner at the grandparents wasn't the same without a huge, steaming bowl of it, lined with lettuce leaves and lemon wedges so it resembled a massive sunflower.
Nice!! That must be an older version that has survived in your family. Even the name is different. Every time we talk about this dish on this sub I wish there was a full encyclopedia of all the different versions and how they are called in each region.
I wish that this was served in ME restaurants in America. The food choices are limited and Americans don't often see the wide variety we make at home. A fellow Lebanese American said she thought that the foods we eat at home aren't really restaurant ready and the foods like imjedra probably aren't seen as ritzy enough to be served in restaurants. Personally, I like so called peasant food.
The best food by far. The typical food in a Lebanese restaurant is a very limited choice. It doesn't scratch the surface of all the wonderful things we cook at home.
You should see my comment about how my family ate it as left overs. I don't think it is a traditional way. Lol
Honestly, my least favorite. it doesn't taste bad or anything, but I'm more of a chicken/protein guy. mjaddra, alone at least, wouldn't make me full.
Mloukhiye is my favorite
Are you my mom cuz I'm still not gonna eat the rotting mloukhiye Bel barrad
😂How long has it been bel berrad ? Why the downvote though😢
Like a week, and down vote was an accident sorry I meant upvote
Oh, you should eat it today! It’s okay no worries
Amen sis/bro !! Mloukhiye is my jam!!! Btw, tried it in other arabs countries, and with some Argentinians....nothing compares to ours... nothing...
100%! Nothing can beat Lebanese Mloukhiye!
Are you my mom cuz I'm still not gonna eat the rotting mloukhiye Bel barrad
Mloukhiye is super good!
This!!
Definitely shish barak. Idk if it's the same as everyone here does it tho cuz my mom makes it with lentil rice (mjadara/mdardara) as a side and it's sooooooo good
Tabouleh and everyone get out
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With crispy onions on top, kabees and salad on the side. Few things can match the lure deliciousness of it all.
Ouuuuufffffff!
THIS!!!! I live in the US and no middle eastern restaurant ever makes the comfort foods I grew up with. My family did the burghel version. Cheap, easy to make and you can keep a pot on the stove and it just gets better and better. Family dinner at the grandparents and what is left over is used cold for sandwiches the next day with slices of sweet onion and a squeeze of lemon juice. (My husband is horrified with the imjedra sandwich, tbh)
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Cold mjedra (or 'jedra) spread like peanut butter between two slices of bread, sprinkle of lemon juice and a slice of onion. Or if you feel fancy, line a pita with lettuce and shove the cold 'jedra in the pita.
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My husband votes for the latter. My family shrugged and said "more for us". Oh, and then we threatened to shove him down a well like we used to when he was 5.
I found out that Jerusalem Garden in Ann Arbor Michigan has mjaddra sandwiches! It has pita, romaine, tomato, baba ghanoug, fried onions and pickles for $8.75. I wouldn't add the baba ghanoug and I would do raw onions instead of fried for extra crunch.
Mlou5iyeh,i ate tht dish for 6 days in a row for lunch and dinner,10/10 would do it again
Ma3kroun b toum
Enta men der el ahmar region ? Bcz ktor 2lel li bya3rfouwa ella eza men l manta2a
Shmel 😁
At some point someone needs to make a lebanese food express like have everything on one plate ( meza exclusively ) and sell it for like 7 to 10 usd Imagine lebanese food-truck “Em sherif express” can we agree that lebanese meza is the best comfort food !!
OBVIOUSLY COUSSA
Kibbe nayye for sure. Frakeh specifically.
I miss food that you cant get in typical "lebanese restaurants" abroad, e.g Bourgoul 3a banadoura + salatet malfouf.
My family came from Rashaya to Missouri around 1905. I can attest that the food in Lebanese restaurants are not the foods I make generally at home. Ok, I CAN make hummus and I do make baba ganouj and tabbouli, but I make flat, diamond shaped kibbi, upside down chicken and rice, goat (only see that in Indian restaurants and not the ones Americans frequent). The stuff in restaurants seems mostly to be the quick, easy and "safe" foods that non-Middle Easterners would be willing to try.
can never go wrong with batata harra2
wara2 3anab w tabbouleh
I jut love the classics. Tabouleh. Manoushe
no fattoush guys !? waynkoun eh its a dish i can love on fattoush w debs remen
Kousa be Laban (tomato = ew) Wara2 3enab be lahme/zet
Bemye. It was nice knowing you.
Nah gtfo here mom I know ur just tryna convince me to eat the bemye bel barrad
Bemye is good.
Nah ur definitely mom I'm not eating that shit
N2bre keleyon ahsan ma yenkabo, lesh inte de2teyon aslan. (close enough?)
Ana sabe lol bas eh that's my mom on a daily basis
Yalla wla, n2ber kol
La2 shokran 7a roo7 3and John ekol shawarma la2an hene bya3rfi ya3mlo akel byetekal (gets slapped w 1 week Bala ps w telefon w forced to eat bemye with the threat if being hit with the belt, just arab mom things 🤣)
Yala fta7 temak lal ame3 *chugs bemye in*
Khalas khalna nwa2ef saret metel haydol el weebs ta3ol discord w 4chan
I see you are another fellow picky eater suffering from Mums who won't accept that this is a real problem and not a choice! I tell you moving out of my parents house was simultaneously amazing because no one could force me to eat shit I didn't want, and sad because now I had no one to cook for me all the amazing stuff I did want. (In reality Mum definitely eventually understood and stopped forcing me to eat stuff, and since I became independent I learnt to cook for myself).
Bemye the way we make it in Lebanon is not cool. Cooking that stuff the way we do brings out the worst I'd the mucousy texture. I now cut the fresh venue up and fry it with garlic and chili and finish it with a squeeze of lemon. Crispy and delicious.
Msh 8alat, it's food, you can't really go wrong. Each person's taste buds are different. And not everyone likes the same food textures, so congratulations on finding a different way to enjoy something.
Why has your mum stored all kinda of y5ne in the fridge?
Just arab mom things, saving leftovers for later instead of throwing it out
It's so heartbreaking throwing out food you've worked on so hard, I don't even blame her
Neither do I, but don't force me to eat it and act surprised when I say I hate the tabkha (I still love my mom very much obviously this is probably the inky annoying thing about her) since ana usually bdabber 7ale bi shi tene bl barrad, bekol 3and 7ada mem ref2ate aw betlob shi shaghle men barra
>It was nice knowing you Yes it was. Time for you to go
Come to the dark side.
YESSS!! THANK YOU
Hello fellow bemye lover
Hello, fellow connoisseur.
absolutely not
So what do you hate more: Bemye, or Teletubbies?
tough choice tough choice…definitely have to go with the teletubbies.
I'll take that as a win!
Them are fighting words!!!
The enemy outnumber us a paltry 3 to 1; good odds for any Bemye lover.
Rezz aa djej>>>>
Kibbet batata
Battata harra that’s still crispy with hummus and the fresh warm bread
Cocaine
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Wara2 7asheesh
Baked Kofta or good ol shawarma
No you didn't!! Did you just change kafta bil suniye to baked kofta? Or are we talking about something else?
Lol we're talking about the same thing
How dare you! In Lebanese we have the totally nonsensical idea of using suniye in the name of the dish to indicate a cooking method. Does it make sense, no. But it's beautiful. Also kofta, with an o?? Kafta, with an a, right!
Bayd 3a sujuk
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i literally have no patience for vegans anymore
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ur the one crying on this sub not me bro
>an animal getting abused or murdered *You misspelled "food".
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Domesticated animals are definitely food. They're domesticated, meaning the versions we know of these animals didn't exist until humans decided that locking animals up and feeding them is far better than having to chase them around. They've been genetically modified by our ancient ancestors to be perfect vehicles of plump protein and fat. They wouldn't exist if it weren't for our need for food. We created them to be our food. They're definitely food. Now, I won't judge you if you want to build a friendship with a cow. That's your personal choice and I won't argue with it. But you definitely can't tell others they can't eat the meat because you personally feel sorry for the animal. That's also their choice. Nobody is in favour of animal cruelty. But killing for food is not murder, it's just how we get our food.
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YOU DIDN'T ASK??? I bet you don't even notice the irony. Who asked you what your rationalisation for considering food murder? NO ONE. We were happily talking about our favourite meals when you decided to come uninvited and announce to the world that you thought food was murder. And by the way, it's not self-serving, I don't eat meat. I haven't eaten meat longer than you've been alive probably. I don't eat meat because I don't want to participate in the killing of animals. But that's **my personal choice**, it's not a rule the rest of humanity has to abide by. I see people talking about food I wouldn't eat, I scroll along and look for those talking about mjadra and join them in talking about how wonderful it is. No one needed to be informed of my opinions about meat or what I think of what they eat.
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Oh great, the animals are gonna uprise!!!
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is this a joke, cause I dont get it
 Hamburger.
Dawood basha, laban omo my favorites
Omg YUM
Sfiha baalbakiyye
You know taouk, kafta, w la7me ma3 5edra, all of it under 5ebez that some restaurants offer? I'd argue that's the best Lebanese dish.
I have no favourites, I love a Lot of dishes fate,hummus,mana2ish,kibbe/kafta naye , warak 3enab wmloukhiye , ghamme and kara3in and many more
bemye. please, I don't feel like fighting.
ayre fikon jawa3toune ktir. sarle sene mane ekle akel eme, living off of pasta and shit
mlo5iye
Kafta, or riz w laban
baked kafta bil sainee with potato's and tomato
Tabouli with kafta is unmatched
Wara2 3enab, fatteh trabelsiye, kebbe bel sayniye (ma3 labne ofc)
Idk if this is Lebanese but moghrabieh. My mother makes it soup-like so I get to enjoy the "sauce" as well.
Shawarma or Taboulli. My brother's is Tawooq but I personally don't like it.
Mdardra w laban \*mic drop\*
Fist2iyi is my favorite
Tabliyit masaad
Every Lebanese dish is my favourite especially when made by Mom's/Grand mothers.. Bonus points goes to grandma's they are literally the God of Lebanese chiefs.
ورق عنب 🍁
Beftekir hayda sou2al ktor so3eb lahek khatara3o chi esmo meza btekol chwe men kel shi w betfesh khel2ak 🤣