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Tunisian Jewish cooking
Main dishes
- Fish balls in red sauce with meltingly tender potatoes
- La Goulette-style grilled grey mullet with lemon, cumin and harissa sauce and pepper couscous
- Egg and potato briks with slata tounsia
- Couscous with fish and vegetables in a red broth
- Couscous with beef meatballs in red broth
- Hout fil koucha — Tunisian oven-baked sea bream with potatoes and pepper
- Hraimi — fish steaks in a spicy red sauce
- Beef loubia — white beans in red sauce
- Maakouda — fried potato fritters with hard-boiled eggs, olives and harissa
- Lamb marka with courgettes and potatoes (marqa bel qraa)
- Potato marka with chicken and harissa
- Marka jelbana bel karnoun — lamb with peas and artichokes in a light turmeric and lemon broth
- Chicken nikitouches — pearl pasta in red sauce
- Ojja with merguez sausages
- Tunisian chicken with olives
- Shakshuka — eggs poached in a pepper and tomato sauce
- Tajine maadnous — Tunisian chicken, potato and parsley bake (minina)
- Tchoukchouka with eggs — fried peppers and tomatoes with eggs folded in, ojja-style
Starters
- Carrots with cumin and harissa — Tunisian kemia
- Fennel and orange kemia with black olives and cumin
- Tunisian cracked olives — zitoun m'kasser with garlic, caraway and harissa
- Small maakoudas — potato fritters with cumin, garlic and parsley
- Grilled pepper kemia with garlic and caraway
- Tunisian cooked salad — slow-cooked tomatoes and roasted peppers
- Harissa potato salad — batata mcharmla
- Slata mechouia — chargrilled pepper and tomato salad
- Slata tounsia — finely diced Tunisian salad with hard-boiled eggs, olives and mint
- Torchi — turnips with lemon and harissa
Italian cooking
Main dishes
- Branzino al forno — roast sea bass with potatoes, tomatoes and olives
- Gnocchi alla sorrentina — potato gnocchi baked with tomato sauce and mozzarella
- Lasagne alla bolognese with pareve béchamel, without cheese
- Linguine al pesto alla genovese with potatoes and green beans
- Linguine with basil pesto, green beans and cannellini
- Linguine with tuna, lemon and capers
- Orata alla griglia — grilled sea bream with salmoriglio and roast potatoes
- Orecchiette with broccoli, cannellini, garlic and golden breadcrumbs
- Veal ossobuco with lemon gremolata and polenta
- Pasta alla Norma — rigatoni with golden aubergines, tomato, basil and salted sheep's cheese
- Pasta e ceci — pasta with chickpeas, garlic and rosemary
- Pasta e fagioli — pasta and white beans
- Penne all'arrabbiata with fagioli all'olio
- Pesce all'acqua pazza — whole sea bass with cherry tomatoes, garlic and white wine
- Chicken piccata with lemon and capers, olive oil and parsley linguine
- White pizza with courgettes and ricotta
- Homemade pizza margherita with slow-fermented dough
- Homemade pizza marinara — garlic, tomato and oregano
- Pizza quattro stagioni — artichokes, garlic mushrooms, olives and egg
- Pollo al limone al forno — lemon chicken with fennel and potatoes roasted with white wine
- Pollo alla cacciatora — hunter's chicken with olives, rosemary and polenta
- Polpette al sugo — beef meatballs in tomato sauce
- Rosemary roast chicken with golden potatoes in the pan juices and soft roasted garlic
- Sarde a beccafico — sardines with pine nuts and raisins, with lemon potatoes
- Veal scaloppine with white wine and sage, served with soft polenta
- Spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino
- Spaghetti al pomodoro e basilico — spaghetti with tomato and basil
- Spaghetti alla puttanesca — Neapolitan style, without anchovies
- Spigola al sale — salt-crusted sea bass with salmoriglio potatoes
- Tagliatelle al ragù alla bolognese
Starters
- Tomato and basil bruschette
- Caponata siciliana — sweet-and-sour aubergines with celery, capers and olives
- Courgette carpaccio with lemon, mint and pine nuts
- Insalata caprese — tomato, mozzarella and basil
- Panzanella — Tuscan bread and tomato salad
- Peperoni ripieni — rice-stuffed pepper halves with a breadcrumb crust
- Individual aubergine parmigiana
Israeli and Mediterranean cooking
Main dishes
- Shish taouk — garlic and lemon chicken thigh skewers with vermicelli rice and tahini
- Grilled beef kebabs with vermicelli rice
- Grilled kefta with lemon tahini sauce and tomato bulgur
- Mejadra — rice and lentils with fried onions and a crisp salad
- Pareve moussaka with lentils, roasted aubergines and olive oil béchamel
- Sumac-grilled chicken with za'atar potatoes, tahini sauce and lemon-dressed onion
- Sabich — pita with fried aubergine, eggs, tahini and amba
- Tonno alla griglia al salmoriglio — pink-centred grilled tuna with courgette bulgur pilaf
Starters
- Baba ghanoush — flame-grilled aubergine with tahini and lemon
- Fattoush — crisp salad with sumac and toasted pita
- Homemade hummus — dried chickpeas, tahini and lemon
- Labneh with za'atar, olive oil and raw vegetables
- Matbucha — slow-cooked tomatoes and peppers with garlic
- Roast potatoes with za'atar and lemon
- Israeli salad — finely diced tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs
- Tabbouleh — parsley, mint and tomato salad