Allrecipes - Recipe for Almond Paste; This recipe is for those of you who wish to make your own almond paste. Rose water can be substituted for the almond extract, and can be purchased in Middle Eastern stores (and at Bevmo.com)

Several recipe variations for Baharat spice (Middle Eastern spice mixture).

Recipe for Cheese-Filled Phyllo Pastry Cigarro Burek. Middle East, bureks are made by folding buttered, cheese-filled phyllo dough into little triangular shapes. Cigarro bureks taste the same but, as the name implies, are rolled into cylindrical shap

Chicken Mechbous - ingredients include loomi spice (dried black lime)

Recipe for Ghormeh Sabzi with lamb, beef, onion, turmeric, dried limes, black-eye peas (beans) potato, onions, spinach, parsley, coriander (cilantro) tareh (garlic chives) and shanbelileh (fenugreek)

Herb Salad - Sabzi includes spinach, arugula, celery or lovage leaves, mint leaves, parsley leaves, cilantro leaves, dill, scallions, olive oil and lemon juice

Iranian/Persian Recipes

Recipe for Lavosh. A Middle Eastern yeast-raised, thin, crisp bread, also known as Armenian cracker bread. Lahvosh range in size from 6 to 14 inches in diameter, and are used as other crackers, and also to make Aram Sandwiches.

Maamoul Recipes. Maamoul are traditional cookies served in the Middle East during special holidays, most especially Pascha. Cookies include shortening, butter, flour, semolina, baking powder, sugar, rose and orange flower water, walnut or date filli

Allrecipes - Recipe for Persian Sabzi Polo (Herb Rice with Fava Beans)