Lamb, maple, sumac and pistachio 'pizza' with tahini yoghurt and charred onions.

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10 Middle Eastern-style recipes that zing with zataar

Zataar is a popular Middle Eastern spice mix that features a warming combination of thyme, sesame seeds, oregano, sumac, salt and other spices. Here's 10 recipes that make the most of it.

10 recipes

This Middle Eastern-style lamb "pizza" is a twist on a lahmacun.

Pizza

Lamb and sumac 'pizza' with tahini sauce and charred onions

1-2 hrs
Katrina Meynink

Middle Eastern slow-roasted lamb shoulder. — EASY

Roast

Zaatar roasted lamb shoulder with pomegranate salad

2 hrs +
Katrina Meynink

Neil Perry's zaatar crusted lamb fillet with skordalia.

Meat

Zaatar crusted lamb fillet with skordalia

1-2 hrs
Neil Perry

Neil Perry's spice roasted spatchcock. — EASY

Poultry

Roast spatchcock recipe with sumac, zaatar and ruby red grapefruit

< 30 mins
Neil Perry

Fresh labna rolled in my zataar.

Dips

Fresh labna rolled in my zaatar with radish and chilli

< 30 mins
Karen Martini

This salad brims with the mellow fruitfulness of February. — EASY

Substantial salads

Grilled zucchini, zaatar and pearl cous cous salad with cherry tomato confit

30 mins - 1 hr
Hetty McKinnon

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Middle Eastern chicken kiev.

Poultry

Spiced chicken kiev with zaatar crumb, crisp aleppo potato, smoked almond and kale salad

1-2 hrs
Katrina Meynink

Spice-roasted chicken

Poultry

Spice-roasted chicken

30 mins - 1 hr
Neil Perry

Turn leftover lamb roast into ragu.

Lamb

Smoked sun-dried tomato and olive spiced lamb ragu with pappardelle pasta

Katrina Meynink

Haloumi wrapped in vine leaves with pistachios and zaatar. — EASY

Cheese

Haloumi wrapped in vine leaves with pistachios, zaatar and pomegranate molasses

< 30 mins

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