Lebanese Tomatoes Recipes

Lebanese food is fresh, herb-forward and built around the table of meze — bright with lemon, garlic and good olive oil. When Lebanese cooks work with tomatoes, they reach for olive oil, lemon, garlic, tahini, sumac and za'atar, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are frying, baking, simmering and boiling.

Sweet-acidic fruit that forms the backbone of sauces, stews and salads across nearly every cuisine. In this collection it's most often cooked with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, ground allspice, cucumber and onion. The dishes here span lebanese classics ready in as little as 20 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Shawarma (Lebanese Chicken Shawarma with Garlic Sauce) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 3,210 ratings.