Information about Middle Eastern Food?

Question

I would like to know more about food from different middle eastern regions including common ingredients, dishes etc (ideally with the country its from). Please note if any of the dishes contain peanuts as I'm dealing with an allergy.

Answer 1

try

http://members.aol.com/JAlmansur/saudi_r...

or

http://www.ummah.com/family/recipes.html

Answer 2

One thing is they don't really eat much spicy food.

Answer 3

Middle Eastern cuisines include:

Arab cuisine

Armenian cuisine

Assyrian cuisine

Egyptian cuisine (Partly)

Greek cuisine (Partly)

Israeli cuisine

Iraqi cuisine

Iranian (Persian) cuisine (Partly)

Jewish cuisine (Partly)

Lebanese cuisine

Palestinian cuisine

Turkish cuisine

Yemeni cuisine

They dont use alot of peanuts but they do use alot of other nuts:  almonds, pistachios, walnuts, pine nuts....

This is a great site with lots of info:

http://mideastfood.about.com/od/middleea...

Common dishes:  hummus, baba ghanouj, tabbouleh, kibbe, pita, falafel, shwarma, fattoush, dolmas, kebabs....