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50 min · serves 4
Mexican Spiced Red Lentil Tostadas
A mashed, spiced lentil topping that replaces refried beans without pretending to be them.
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95 min · serves 6
Moroccan Field Pea and Lentil Stew
White field peas hold their shape while red lentils dissolve into the broth, giving one pot two textures.
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35 min · serves 20
Moroccan Mint Tea Sesame Cookies
A simple sesame-crusted cookie meant for dunking in mint tea, crisp at the edge and slightly tender at the centre.
vegetarian
30 min · serves 10
Moroccan Sesame Almond Filling for Pastries
A fragrant almond and sesame paste, the filling that makes triangular Moroccan pastries worth the folding.
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50 min · serves 8
Moroccan Sesame Seed Bread
A round, semolina-dusted daily bread with a heavy sesame crust, baked flat and torn rather than sliced.
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85 min · serves 6
Moroccan-Style Cracked Wheat with Seven Vegetables
The classic seven-vegetable stew served over steamed daliya instead of couscous, staggered so nothing overcooks.
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90 min · serves 6
Nigerian-Style Steamed Field Pea Pudding
Skinned, blended field peas steamed in small parcels until they set into a firm savoury pudding, borrowing the moin moin technique.
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30 min · serves 2
Nordic Emmer and Flax Breakfast Porridge
Paigambari daliya simmered slowly with milk and finished with roasted flax, closer to a Nordic grot than a sweet kheer.
vegetarian
30 min · serves 12
Persian Sesame Halva Ardeh
A simple Persian tahini halva set with sugar syrup and rosewater, pressed into a tin and cut once it firms.
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60 min · serves 5
Persian-Style Daliya with Lentils and Dates
Grain and lentils layered with sweet dried fruit and caramelised onions, borrowing the sweet-savoury logic of adas polo.
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65 min · serves 6
Persian-Style Lentil and Herb Ash Soup
A thick, herb-heavy Persian-style soup finished with a fried mint and garlic oil poured over at the very last moment.
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30 min · serves 6
Peruvian-Style Sesame Anticucho Marinade
A smoky, vinegar-forward marinade in the anticucho tradition, using sesame oil and seeds where the original leans on aji panca paste.
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