Boiled chickpeas (US: garbanzo beans) or boiled beans flavoured with cumin, garlic and lemon, often served as a mezze or available on the street.

A small honeyed cake of layered, white shredded wheat stuffed with pistachios and syrup.

A fragrant dessert made from cornflour (US: corn starch) flavoured with orange water or rosewater and given texture by the addition of chopped nuts.

A cheese and tomato salad with spices.

Aubergine (US: eggplant) stuffed with hashwa, a stuffing of minced (US: ground) lamb, rice and pine nuts.

An aubergine (US: eggplant) purée with sesame. It also means purslane.

Purslane. It is also an aubergine (US: eggplant) purée with sesame.

Biscuits (US: cookies) flavoured with sesame seeds.