Snack

These date-filled cookies—qrass bil-tamr—are a typical Ramadan sweet, offered to guests and snacked on during the night before the fast begins again at dawn.

Maamoul are delicate pastries—filled with pistachios, walnuts, or dates—that are served on special occasions like Eid Al-Fitr and Easter.

Warbat is a popular snack during the month of Ramadan. The flaky pastry is drizzled with rose water syrup and sprinkled with vivid green crushed pistachios.

Despite the name, the pineapple bun has no pineapple—it’s a soft milk-bread bun with a sweet, buttery, crackly cookie-like top that, after it’s baked, resembles pineapple skin.

These ring-shaped mochi doughnuts use mochiko and tapioca flours to get a little extra chew and bounce.

Traditional injera takes a week to make, since you need four days to make the sponge, plus another three to prepare the batter.

Turkish pide is a popular summer snack; this version uses sheep’s-milk cheese.

This leavened Persian flatbread is at its best when eaten fresh.

Meet mlaoui—msemen’s rebellious younger brother—a flaky skillet-fried Moroccan flatbread.

These gozleme are stuffed with a mixture of three different cheeses to mimic the feta-like Turkish white cheese that’s often used for these flatbreads.

These lacy pancakes are cooked only on one side, which gives them an incredibly light and delicate texture.

These sesame flatbreads can be made ahead and frozen—or, if you plan ahead, made fresh for breakfast.

These easy Moldovan flatbreads are made by mixing the filling into the dough rather than stuffing it.

The fillings for plachinda often include a salted fresh cheese, as well as spring onions and dill.

This oversize version of khachapuri, the Georgian cheese-filled bread, is both a time-saver and brilliant way to feed a group.

This khachapuri recipe makes all you need for a meal—a luscious cheesy, eggy, buttery bath to dip bread into.

Using tangzhong—a technique that calls for mixing a cooked flour mixture into bread dough—produces a bread that’s unbelievably soft, sweet, and fluffy.

This easy chunky guacamole recipe gets warmth from a dash of cumin and heat from fresh or pickled jalapeño.

Sweet potato purée and banana bind the ingredients together (so you can skip the eggs), while adding a light, natural sweetness to the batter.