#Manakish

[afsanfarm]

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[indischwindisch]

Mana'eesh Za'atar (with whole wheat flour)

These soft, pillowy wonders are popular in the middle east, and also often consumed for suhoor (meal before starting the fast). This whole wheat version is a healthier take on the traditional mana’eesh and keeps you full for longer. I first tried the traditional mana’eesh when were were visiting our family who are based in Saudi-Arabia. We had it during Ramadan along with hummus. Our family told…

[annikashurafa]

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[paramountltd]

Za’atar Day "Use Za'atar For Make Your Food More Tasty And Enjoy The Meal In Paramount Aluminium Container"

[unityrain24]

back at it again makin za'atar manakish

[dudeshusband]

my parents ask me why i make a lot of "weird" foods. they aren't weird, they're from other cultures and i like to enjoy food from everywhere

[abrahamshipwreck]

Attempting to make bastardized cheese zaatar manakish with Great Value pizza dough wish me luck

[teasel-backatitagain]

Seeing hot and heavy live changed me

[mariacallous]

Opening a kosher restaurant in New York City wasn’t always in the cards for Raif Rashed, a Druze from the village of Usfiya in northern Israel.

But as Rashed, the owner of Taboonia — a new Druze restaurant in the Garment District that’s currently seeking kosher certification — will be the first to tell you, sometimes life can take an unexpected turn, especially after a tragedy.

An engineer by trade, Rashed, 40, moved to Hackensack, New Jersey, in 2019 to take a job at an Israeli manufacturing company. In October 2023, he was visiting family in Israel when he extended his trip to could help his brother, Radda — who had run a catering business and food stall there, also called Taboonia, for a decade — work a busy event.

Fatefully, that event was the Nova Music Festival. Intended to be a 15-hour party overnight dance party, the festival was the site of one of the deadliest massacres that occurred when Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

During the violent chaos that unfolded, Rashed was separated from his brother, who ultimately survived. He sought cover behind a car belonging to his friend Erick Peretz, who was at the festival with his 16-year-old daughter Ruth, who had cerebral palsy and used a wheelchair. Rashed watched Peretz and his daughter seek cover behind an ambulance, then, to his horror, witnessed Hamas fighters burning the vehicle. Erick and Ruth Peretz’s bodies were identified 12 days later; they were among the more than 380 people murdered at the festival that day.

The experience turned Rashed’s life upside down. “I was in crisis [for] a year,” said Rashed, who added that, in the aftermath of the attack, “I looked middle-aged within hours.”

Rashed was stuck in Israel for several months, as his passport was stolen in the attack. When he finally returned to the United States, he quit his engineering job. Seeking comfort, he found himself cooking the foods of his childhood, like manakish — a type of flatbread served with toppings like za’atar, hummus, and labneh — or the very thin, crispy Druze pita, rolled into a wrap and filled with cucumber and tomato salad, hummus, hard boiled eggs, feta and chickpeas.

The Druze are a small religious and ethnic minority in the Middle East, with a population of about 1 million spread across communities in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. (Israel has vowed to protect the Druze in Syria if they come under attack from the new regime there, and this week Syrian Druze visited a Druze site in Israel for the first time in decades.) In Israel, Druze communities, comprising less than 2% of the population, tend to be patriotic and serve in the military, as Rashed did. “We don’t have [a] country, but we serve the country we live [in],” he said.

Inspired by reconnecting with Druze cuisine, Rashed decided to open an American outpost of Taboonia.

“For me to sell the food from our culture, and especially my mother’s recipes, this is my baby,” he said.

On Oct. 5, 2024 — almost exactly one year after the terrorist attack — he launched the Taboonia food stall, selling Druze food and coffee at the New Meadowlands Market at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Saturdays and at the Grand Bazaar on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Sundays. It was an instant hit.

The same month he opened his food stall, Rashed met his future business partner, Ray Radwan. Radwan, a Druze born in New Jersey whose family is from Lebanon, works in the restaurant industry, and the pair decided to open a brick-and-mortar outpost of Taboonia at 832 Sixth Ave. Construction on the fast-casual dining space, which seats roughly a dozen people, began last November, and the restaurant had its soft-launch opening last month.

Until recently, the only Druze eatery in New York has Gazala’s, an Upper West Side restaurant run by Gazala Halabi. When Gazala’s was targeted with anti-Israel vandalism in February 2024, scores of local Jews turned out to show support. The pattern repeated that July: Following a Hezbollah rocket attack that took the lives of 12 children and teens in a Druze town in northern Israel, Jewish New Yorkers showed up at Gazala’s in droves.

“It really feels like a family,” Halabi said of the Jewish community’s support at the time. “I really feel, again, like I’m not alone.”

But the city’s significant population of kosher-keeping Jews could not join in the rush. Gazala’s is not kosher and serves shellfish alongside serves Middle Eastern specialties like kibbeh, meat-stuffed grape leaves, shawarma and lamb.

Taboonia is vegetarian, making it relatively easy to achieve kosher certification. Rashed said the restaurant is expected to receive its certification from Rabbi Zev Schwarcz at IKC in the coming weeks, and that there will be a grand opening celebration, likely after Passover. And because Taboonia isn’t owned by a Jew, it should be able to stay open on Shabbat and maintain its kosher status — an added perk.

“See, to be Druze, is a plus,” he said.

Rashed said it’s just good business to seek kosher certification. “Kosher, everyone can eat, OK?” he said. “But not kosher, not everyone can eat.”

But he is also grateful to the support he’s gotten from Jews in New York and beyond — including through a recent viral video that the actress and pro-Israel activist Noa Tishby posted about him on Instagram.

“My community is Jewish,” he said, adding that he attended school alongside Jewish students, and that his Hebrew is better than his Arabic or English. “I am around Jewish since 13 years old.”

Rashed’s six years in New York and New Jersey have influenced his palette, as well as the restaurant’s menu. In addition to traditional Druze foods, Taboonia also serves some cross-cultural treats, like everything bagel-seasoned bourekas, filled with mozzarella cheese.

Rashed hopes that Taboonia will be a place of repast and respite for New Yorkers of all stripes.

“Me and other Druze, Lebanese Druze, we [are] all of us all together [in the] middle of the war, in the middle of New York, to show the world we can make it a different way, and maybe we can make a change for some people, yes?” Rashed said. “Because [in] this place you’re going to hear Arabic, Hebrew, and English. No one is going to judge anyone about anything.”

[jackhkeynes]

lox "pizza"

lox /lɔks/ [lɔks]

pizza, tostada, manakish, lahmacun, lángos, tlayuda, uttapam, okonomiyaki, pajeon, any meal that comprises a thin bread or pancake base with various savoury toppings that is eaten in slices

Etymology: borrowed into Borlish in the twentieth century via for instance Saxon lox, Napolitan losse, Awrish [Hungarian] locs /lokʃ/ and Greek λώξη • lṓxē "pizza, etc." from a metathetic variant of Armeniac լաւշկի • lōški "lavash, pitta, small flatbread". The word is applied widely, although without modification it refers prototypically to slices of thin bread with a sauce, cheese and vegetables.

Nos accataum trenc a lox dy stal ant un canougf a fais blau. /nɔz ˌa.kaˈtom trɛnk a lɔks di stal ant ɪn kaˈnuif a fez blo/ [nʊˌza.kɐˈtom tʀɛŋk a lɔks di stal ant ɪŋ kɐˈnuif a fez blo] 1p buy-pst-1p slice at pizza of-df stall with indf awning at stripe blue We bought pizza from the stall with a blue-striped awning.

[stevehairingtit]

Walked up the street to my favorite almost literal hole in the wall and ordered a manakish and they said do you want the spicy sauce and today I said sure why not and they gave me a little cup and it was almost certainly Tapatio and actually it goes great with zaatar and grilled chicken. There's still some good in this world, Mr. Frodo.

[mosscreeper-ao3]

@flufftober Day 24: Comfort food-MFE friendship

Summary: James makes his squad manakish.

“Okay, the dough should be ready, now hand me the za’atar,” James said, stretching his hand out to Kinkade. Ryan retrieved it from the cabinet in their shared dorm. “So, what is this stuff anyways?” Nadia asked. “Thyme, sesame seeds, sumac, and salt. Sometimes it has other herbs as well,” Leifsdottir replied. “Which tastes like…?” “It’s…” James pondered how exactly to describe it. “Tangy and earthy… a bit nutty from the sesame seeds I guess.” He began mixing the spice blend into the olive oil before spreading it across each piece of dough. Kinkade took the baking tray from him and slid it into the oven. The four made conversation in the minutes it took the manakish to cook. James dropped each one onto the serving tray and waited for Nadia and Ina to each take their first cautionary bites. “I know it’s an acquired taste but-“ “Are you kidding me, James?”  Nadia shouted. “This is amazing.” Ina nodded in agreement.

[anyab]

Via ahmedhijazee november 15 2023

Video description: Ahmed Hijazee talks to the camera saying, "اليوم رح ناكل بيتزا في غزة وفي العدوان مع الدوكتورة سارة"(Today we will eat pizza in Gaza and during the aggression with Dr. Sarah.) The video is captioned as, "فرحتنا بالبيتزا بعد ٤٠ يوم من العدوان على غزة.Our joy after finally being able to bake after 40 days of the agression on gaza"

"He turns the camera to show dr Sarah spreading sauce on a dough and adding toppings and cheese. He continues talking, "بيتزا عقد الحال. اه مزبطين امورهم" (Pizza befitting the situation.   They've got their affairs in order). Dr Sarah checks on what she already has cooking. She pulls out a pan from a slot. Above the pan is shallow compartment of the same material as the pan holding coal. On top of it is a piece of bread. In the pan is a zaatar mankoushe. Ahmed says, "في مناقيش زعتر. فرجيهم كيف الطنجرة شغالة. هادا فحم مش كهربا يا جماعة" (There are manakish zaatar. Tell them how the pot is working. This is charcoal, not electric.) The video caption now reads, "أهل غزة حولو طناجر الكهرباء لطناجر فحم Gazans transformed electrical ovens now to run on coal"

He then shows a cooked and yet to be cooked pizza and says, "ليكو البيتزا حتطلع هيك" (look at how the pizza will turn out)

He the says, "شكرا للدكتورة سارة وعيليتها" (Thanks to Dr. Sarah and her family). He pans to show them all. They're all smiling and giggling, one guy is smoking a hookah. End ID]