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Serve salad inside avocado shell halves or over shredded lettuce. This recipe will serve 8 people as a starter or 4 people as a main dish.

The dough for the sausage rolls would probably be made with flour, butter, eggs, water and salt, kneaded and left to rise. Chilled pizza dough, however, is a good enough substitute.

Serve rice with almonds and raisins recipe as a side dish for an Egyptian themed dinner. White rice is often flavored with nuts and raisins to give it variety. Ghee is the cooking fat of choice for this rice dish.

This recipe has an interesting blend of spices and flavors very characteristic of Moroccan cuisine.

This recipe has been altered to suit Western cooking style, where butter and milk are common.

Cumin and coriander immediately bring the flavor of the Middle East to your kitchen and chickpeas are typical of their cuisine.