Learn how to cook traditional Iraqi dishes the way they have been handed down from mothers to daughters over hundreds of years. This easy-to-use cookbook includes recipes for popular dishes, including:

• Chicken Biryani
• Kabuli Rice (Lamb Rice with Pistachios)
• Shorbat (Green Dumpling Soup)
• Faisinjan (Chicken in Pomegranate Sauce)
• Shahkam Asheh (Rice Stuffed Vegetables)
• Masgouf (Baked Whole Fish)
• Mujaddara (Lentils with Rice)
• Zard w'Haleeb (Yellow Rice Pudding with Raisins and Pistachios)
• Bas Bous Goz (Semolina Pudding with Coconut)
• Ad-Kelaijah (Date and Walnut Biscuits)
• Baklava…and many more

Traditional Iraqi Cuisine is part of the series 'Food from Around the World', which has been developed in cooperation with migrant women who have shared their recipes and stories as a way of bringing joy to their families and reconnecting with their traditional homelands.

In this rich offering, we also learn how Iraqi cuisine is a fusion of foods of the Middle Eastern region, with an ancient history that has developed over thousands of years. It is a place where the desert foods of bread, milk and dates, with occasional meat combined with the agricultural regions of Iraq where cucumber, leeks, chicory, onions, garlic, palm hearts, lemons and pomegranate were farmed in this land of loamy soil and sunny climate.

If you are looking for the real taste of Iraq, this book is a must-have for your kitchen collection.