Arabic

Now, there’s comfort food and comfort food. This is the ultimate version of it. And just what you expect from comfort food, it takes hours and hours for it to be at its best. But then, but then… Lima beans, the dry ones, become so very soft after spending all these hours in the pan. You can hardly imagine that they can get so soft at all. It is the secret of adding olive oil in the water. Patience. Endless soft boiling water. And then dip with some spicy shatta, crispy red onion and tasty flatbread until you drop.

Tabbouleh is really one of the great classics in Lebanese cuisine. There are of course variations on the theme and this is one of them. Incredibly soft in taste, surprising with its different flavors that are incorporated. A feast for the eyes and the other senses.

This is a wonderfully flavorful dish. Lentils, rice, great spices. And the spiciness of the baked eggplant gives the whole dish a great lift.

Look, za’atar and I, it’s simply a love affair. Unconditional love. Until death do us part. And if you also put it on delicious crunchy home-baked crackers, you get a glimpse of paradise. According to myself that is.