List of Israeli dishes


The following is a list of Israeli dishes. For the cuisine, see Israeli cuisine.

Main dishes
St. Peter's fish (tilapia) in a restaurant in Tiberias, Israel
Hamin
Jerusalem mixed grill.

Meat
  • Jerusalem mixed grill - originating in Jerusalem,[1] a mixed grill of chicken hearts, spleens and liver mixed with bits of lamb cooked on a flat grill, seasoned with a spice blend and served with rice, mujaddara or bamia
  • Kubba seleq - stew or soup made of beet
  • Shashlik
  • Skewered Goose Liver - flavored with spices
  • Merguez - a spicy sausage originating in North Africa, mainly eaten grilled in Israel
  • Moussaka - oven-baked layer dish of a ground meat and eggplant casserole
  • Schnitzel - fried chicken breast with breadcrumb or spice-flavored flour coating

Fish
  • Tilapia - St. Peter's fish, eaten in Israel and especially in Tiberias fried or baked with spices
  • Denesse - in the coastal region, baked with yogurt, tomatoes, garlic, dried mint and cucumbers; also prepared fried.
  • Gefilte fish - traditional Ashkenazi Jewish quenelles made of carp, whitefish, or pike, typically eaten as an appetizer and

Vegetarian
  • Kubba bamia - dumplings made of semolina or rice and okra cooked in a tomato stew or soup
  • Brik
  • Malawach - bread eaten with fresh grated tomato and skhug
  • Hamin - long cooked Sabbath stews made a variety of with meats, grains and root vegetables
  • Jakhnun - pastry served on Shabbat morning with fresh grated tomato and skhug, eaten for breakfast especially in Shabbath
  • Ziva - puff pastry topped with sesame seeds and filled with cheese and olives
  • Ptitim [2]
  • Orez Shu'it - white beans cooked in a tomato stew and served on rice
  • Burgul - cooked in many ways.
  • Kishka - stuffed derma, typically cooked in Sabbath stews
  • Macaroni Hamin - a traditional Sephardi Jerusalemite dish originally from the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
  • Khachapuri - bread filled with eggs and cheese.
  • Ktzitzot Khubeza - a patty made of mallow, bulgur/bread crumbs, eggs, onion, olive oil

Soups
Shkedei marak

Meze
Gefilte fish
  • Bourekas - phyllo or puff pastry that can be filled with vegetables, cheese, meat, spices, herbs, nuts, pickles, etc. (comes from the Börek)
  • Kreplach - are small dumplings filled with ground meat, mashed potatoes or another filling, usually boiled and served in chicken soup, though they may also be served fried.

Salads and dips
Israeli eggplant salad with mayonnaise
  • Salat avocado - rural salad made of avocados, with lemon juice and chopped scallions
  • Matbucha - cooked dish of tomatoes and roasted bell peppers seasoned with garlic and chili pepper.
  • Carrot salad
  • Cabbage salad
  • Coleslaw
  • Greek salad
  • Sabich salad - rural sabich dish that made as salad, the ingredients of it are almost the same as of the Sabich itself despite the Hummus and the Pita bread
  • Hamusim - Vegetables are soaked in water and salt in a pot and drawn from the air for the week such as: cucumber and cabbage, eggplant, carrot, turnip, radish, onion, caper, lemon, olives, cauliflower, tomatoes, chili, bell pepper, garlic and beans.

Cheeses and yogurts
Safed cheese

Spices and condiments
Skhug

Breads

Breads
Challah and Bagel in Mahane Yehuda Market.

Bread dishes
Sabich
  • Jerusalem mixed grill - can be served in pita or laffa
  • Bagel toast
  • Sabich - Israeli dish served in pita bread, traditionally contains fried eggplant, hard boiled eggs, hummus, tahini, Israeli salad, potato, parsley and amba. Traditionally it is made with haminados eggs, slow-cooked in Hamin until they turn brown. Sometimes it is doused with hot sauce and sprinkled with minced onion.
  • Lahmacun - round, thin piece of dough topped with minced meat (most commonly beef and lamb) and minced vegetables and herbs including onions, tomatoes and parsley, then baked.
  • Havita b'laffa - Omelette in a Taboon bread, served with Hummus or Labneh.
  • Tunisian sandwich

Snacks
Bamba.
Grill-flavored Bissli.

Sweets and desserts
Rugelach

Beverages
Limonana
  • Arak - Anise flavored alcoholic beverage, sometimes flavored with grapefruit or khat juices instead of water.
  • Israeli wine
  • Pomegranate wine
  • Turkish coffee
  • Limonana - type of lemonade made from freshly-squeezed lemon juice and mint leaves
  • Vodka - distilled beverage composed primarily of water and ethanol, sometimes with traces of impurities and flavorings.
  • Beer
  • Tea sometimes flavored with rosewater, mint, lemon juice, honey or date honey
  • Pomegranate juice
  • Gat - A juice made of Khat, in Jerusalem it is mixed with citron and named Etrogat.
  • Apricot juice
  • Orange juice
  • Sugarcane juice
  • Chocolate milk in a bag (Shoko Bsakit)

Other

See also

References
  1. Ottolenghi, Y.; Tamimi, S. (2012). Jerusalem: A Cookbook. Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony. p. 326. ISBN 978-1-60774-395-8. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  2. Gaunt, Doram (May 9, 2008). "Ben-Gurion's rice". Haaretz. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
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