Exotic dishes of the Orient

With hospitality , Oriental cuisine is known for its many dishes from her rich culinary identity , which are commonly known and accepted throughout the world . Mezenje between meals or after dinner - cold cuts , cheese , meat sized bites , salads and other delicacies along with pleasant conversation and relaxed atmosphere of the oriental tradition.

Field Orient historically been very important for the occurrence of the oldest civilizations known to us , but also because of the emergence of agriculture. In the western part of the crescent in Jordan and the upper course of the Euphrates were placed oldest agricultural lands .

For agricultural development were key factors fertile land , rivers ( irrigation ), and the climate that encouraged the cultivation of annual crops , which provide tasty crop of perennials. Different altitude enabled the early experimentation with various types of edible crops. Thus grown barley, flax, beans , lentils , and cows, pigs , goats, sheep and horses .
Food consumption in the countries of Islam religiously conditioned , so the consumption of pork is prohibited . Mutton , beef , poultry and fish to her more than worthy replacement . Sesame is a trademark of the Orient , and come here and figs . Rice , grains and legumes are an essential part of many dishes . Almonds , pine nuts , pistachios and dates are an integral part of many sweet and savory dishes , but are consumed independently.

spices
Spices give a real flavor to any kitchen . So it is with the Oriental . Do you want to sail the magic of Oriental cuisine , you arm yourself with spices. So your kitchen shelves contains some cumin , harissa ( pasta , chili sauce , olive oil , garlic , coriander and salt , sometimes with the addition of mint , lemon juice and vinegar ) , cardamom , tahini (paste of finely ground sesame seeds mixed with sesame oil in a thick paste ) , star anise , allspice , cayenne pepper , cinnamon , sesame seeds , saffron , nutmeg , curry and other spices like .
Baharat is spicy Arab spice mixture , consisting of the above-listed : black pepper , coriander , cloves , cardamom , cumin , nutmeg and cinnamon . Shelves are filled with spices ! You're ready to print in culinary oriental sea .

specialties
Burgers , kebabs , shish kebabs and skewered the classical oriental grilled specialties . We are known as the Balkan specialties , but in fact originate from oriental , according to some sources and Indian cuisine . Balkans are burgers and many other grilled dishes his conquests spread the Turks . Beside them are known to us more and meatballs , moussaka , cheese pies, cooking lamb with vegetables , kebabs , falafel ( fried chickpea balls ) . What you definitely somewhere tasted the original oriental delicacies such as stuffed cabbage from the vine with a filling of rice , raisins and pine nuts , eggplant with stuffing of dried tomatoes , bulgur and raisins or Blitvinians Savici with walnuts and cheese and salmon in the " envelope" of sesame marinated in aromatic and slightly spicy sauce .

Iranian onion soup , flavored version of the famous French dishes with turmeric, cinnamon , cardamom and lemon juice and lime already has many fans , a cream of cauliflower soup with coriander sauce served hot refined curryjevim sauce and a mixture of peanut oil and curryjevog powder. At the end of the beads is spread korijanderovim .
Yogurt sauce with sesame seeds and orange zest is made from yogurt , sesame paste and orange zest . The sauce is added to dishes of Oriental cuisine - falafel , millet polpeta with cottage cheese , peppers and olives and other oriental dishes.

sugary snacks
Instead of sugar in the preparation of desserts Oriental cuisine is often used honey or sugar flavored rosewater . Oriental desserts has an exceptional sweet and exotic flavor . The most famous cake certainly is baklava . Preparation of extruded dough , ground walnuts , sugar syrup , often in oriental cuisine flavored rosewater . Many kitchen baklava appropriated , in the absence of reliable evidence , baklava tentatively classified as an oriental sweets .
Kadaif is also famous cake of fine noodles with pistachio stuffing , and if you're not sure , try yogurt cream with saffron or candied figs cooked in flavored sugar syrup .

refection
Extremely attractive way of serving food is called . meze , which usually consist of 40 different kinds of hot and cold dishes . Meze not only stands for a number of recipes , it is the oriental style of enjoying small dishes with a relaxed atmosphere and convenient conversation . Prepare snacks attaches great importance . With snacks required to serve chopped parsley , onion slices , tomato , lemon , pickles and olives . All spread out in a way to decorate the plates .

His Majesty the eggplant
If we had to single out only one of the most important ingredients in oriental cuisine , it would certainly be an eggplant . Among the thousands of recipes is not difficult to single out a number of small dishes centered around the bey fruit . Turkish Patlican ez bake one such dish . The idea is simple . In a hot oven or , even better , grilled roasted a whole unpeeled eggplant . Peel when cool slightly and then cut into small cubes and mixed with yoghurt , olive oil, garlic , black pepper Tucano , dill and lemon juice .