Kishk

I picked up a bag of kishk recently - Lebanese fermented yoghurt and cracked wheat powder. Does anyone know how I should cook this?

Thanks, Celia

[Jenise]

Fermented yoghurt...um, bury it?

Fermented yoghurt...um, bury it?

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Well, the traditional use is very similar to the man'oushe you made. Mix together some kishk, spices, toasted sesame seeds, pepper paste and tomato paste, add olive oil and toasted pine nuts, spread over flat dough, bake. I don't know the exact proportions, but it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out. Good luck and please let us know the results.

Jacques, thank you! I'll give it a go. Apparently it's also traditionally cooked as a porridge or stew as well...

Celia, Hi...

Indeed a well-beloved breakfast dish amongs the Bedouin in Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, but one for which, alas, I have no idea whatsoever as to preparation. Best I can advise is to join the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) or the Jordanian Army, to be sent to an base or garrison deep in the Negev Dessert, there to befriend several of the Bedouin trackers and scouts and to be invited to have breakfast with them in their tents.

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Rogov

Hahaha...that does seem rather extreme, Rogov. There's usually someone here who knows about these sorts of things...

or I can ask my mom

Hahaha...that does seem rather extreme, Rogov.

Moi? Extreme? Never!!!!!!!!

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Rogov

or I can ask my mom

I was hoping you'd say that, Jacques, but I didn't want to impose...

or I can ask my mom

I was hoping you'd say that, Jacques, but I didn't want to impose...

No problem Celia, I'll ask her this weekend.

Fermented yoghurt...um, bury it?

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Ditto.

Actually, it was surprisingly delicious. I took Jacques' advice and found this recipe for kishk flatbread:





Don't all be so quick to condemn, it's good to try new things!

They look great Celia, wow!

I asked my mother about kishek. She never used it, sorry. She said it was an ingredient Lebanese Christians and Muslims used but not Jews. She has seen it in the pies (that's also how I've also seen it) and said that whenever they went to a hotel they also serve chicken with kishek, but she never ordered it (Kashrut laws).

Good luck.

[Jenise]

Don't all be so quick to condemn, it's good to try new things!

It IS--couldn't agree more. Was making fun of my revulsion to foods white and creamy, not the dish itself. I honestly wish I could be more open-minded.

Thanks Jacques!

Jenise, I'd forgotten about your white and creamy thing! I can't eat anything with bananas...