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This cherry meringue slice recipe is really simple to bake and delicious to eat.

Do you delight in taking the cherry off the top of a cake and eating it? Do you love it when you bite into a soft sweet cherry whilst eating a fruit cake?

If you love eating glazed cherries then you will really enjoy eating these tasty treats.

Chefs cherry meringue slice recipe is so easy to bake that you do not even have to roll the base out, simply press the base into the oven tin.

These delightful cherry treats look appetizing and colourful and taste really delicious.

Learn how to make the best Middle Eastern Sfiha (meat pies with dough). Easy and delicious recipe to make sfiha appetizer/side dish.

Sfiha is a pizza-like dish eaten in the Levant. The dish originates in Syria. They are also very popular in Brazil and Argentina due to the presence of a large Levantine community.

Ingredients
Dough (see Pastry Dough Recipe)
1/2 kg (16 oz) ground lamb meat
1 kg (32 oz) firm tomatoes, finely chopped
5 medium onions, finely chopped
1 tspn salt
A dash of ground cayenne red pepper, ground cinnamon, and ground allspice
2 tbls butter, diced
2 tbls yogurt
1 tbls sesame paste (Tahini)
1 tbls pomegranate thickened juice (if available)
4 tbls fried pine nuts

Preparation

1. Mix well meat, tomatoes, onion and spices. Add yoghurt, sesame paste and pomegranate. Mix all with fried pine nuts. Add butter.
2. Divide dough into walnut size balls. Roll between hand palms to smooth.
3. Roll out balls with a rolling pin to form 8 cm diameter circles. Put one tbls of meat mixture on dough circle seeing that a cube is in each spoon.
4. Bring the edges up and press to make a square.
5. Arrange meat pastries in a tray brushed with butter. Bake in a moderate heat oven (180° C) for 30 minutes or till dough is golden and meat is cooked.
6. Serve hot with yogurt.

Learn how to make Arabic/Middle Eastern Pastry Dough. Easy recipe to make great pastry dough that can be used to make flat pizza style dishes or can be used to make manakish, spinach pies, meat pies such as sfiha. It is a very easy and versatile dough. It can also be frozen in a plastic bag for later use.

Ingredients
1 packet dry yeast
1 cup warm water
1 tsp sugar
2 tbs. olive oil
3 cups flour

Preparation

1. Combine yeast, water and sugar and let sit for ten minutes, add olive oil.
2. Slowly add flour, half cup at a time until all combined, add a tsp of water if needed to combine dough.

Easy recipe for Lebanese Tabouleh Salad. Enjoy Lebanese cooking and learn how to make best Lebanese Tabouleh Salad dish. Tabouleh is sometimes called the fairy salad, usually by grateful vegetarians with happy tastebuds. It is undoubtedly the most popular Lebanese salad, claiming the honor of being Lebanon's national dish. There are many ways of making tabouleh but the basic ingredients are burghul, parsley, tomatoes, mint, onion, lemon juice, and olive oil. Enjoy an authentic and traditional Lebanese salad dish.

Ingredients
1/4 cup burghul, fine cracked wheat
2 cups finely chopped parsley
1/2 kg (16 oz) firm red tomatoes, washed and finely chopped
1/2 cup finely chopped fresh mint leaves
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt (as desired)
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
a dash of all spice (as desired)

Preparation

1. Wash chopped mint and parsley then drain well.
2. Wash the burghul several times and drain.
3. Soak it in chopped tomatoes for 20 minutes.
4. Rub chopped onion with salt.
5. Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
6. Add olive oil and lemon juice, toss the mixture well.
7. Serve Tabouleh with crisp cos lettuce leaves, or fresh cabbage leaves

Easy recipe for Authentic Lebanese Fattoush Salad - Learn how to make Authentic Lebanese Fattoush Salad dish. This salad dish is perfect for hot weather. This recipe consists of pita bread, tomatoes, cucumber, radish, onion, lemon juice, garlic, dried mint, olive oil, vinegar, fresh mint, sumac, sweet green pepper, and lettuce leaves.

Ingredients
1/2 Lebanese round bread (pitta), toasted
3 medium firm tomatoes, washed and chopped
3 slender cucumbers (250g\9 oz), washed and chopped
3 medium radishes (250g\9 oz) (1 cup), washed and chopped
4 spring onions, washed and coarsely chopped
1 medium onion (1/4 cup), roughly chopped
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 cloves garlic, crushed with a pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon dried mint
2 tablespoons vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
1 cup coarsely chopped fresh mint leaves
1 cup coarsely chopped parsley
1 cup small purslane leaves
1/2 teaspoon ground sumac
1/2 cup coarsely chopped sweet green pepper
1 teaspoon salt
8 crisp cos (2 cups) lettuce leaves, torn into bite size pieces

Preparation

1. Break toasted bread into small pieces and keep aside.
2. Wash the chopped mint, parsley and purslane, then drain well.
3. Mix crushed garlic with salt, oil, vinegar, dried mint, lemon juice and ground sumac and keep aside.
4. Put all ingredients in a serving bowl. Add toasted bread pieces and dress with garlic mixture, mix well.
5. Serve fattoush if you wish garnished with additional toasted bread

How to make an easy chocolate cake with chocolate frosting recipe

This is a delectable chocolate cake recipe that is simple to bake yet very impressive to serve to family and friends.

Chef uses Belgium milk chocolate to bake a fabulous cake that is filled and covered with a milk chocolate frosting.

The chocolate cake is soft, moist and bouncy like a compact sponge, the frosting is pure milk chocolate silk.

This tasty chocolate cake also has three layers to it baked in three 7 inch cake tins. If you only have two cake tins then this recipe can be make into a chocolate sandwich cake instead, please note two 7 inch tins will be too small so make sure both cake tins are 8 inches wide for a sandwich cake.

If you love milk chocolate and you love cake then you will love this delicious and easy recipe.

To learn how to make Chefs easy chocolate cake recipe simply follow the step by step instructions below and get baking.