The Food You Will Eat In Palestine: Travelling to Palestine? Prepare your tummy. Palestinian social life largely builds around eating. Foreigners traveling in the area will get weekly invitations to family dinners and barbeques with friends. And when there´s food, there´s going to be a lot of it. And it´s not a salad.

Palestinian cuisine includes a lot of bread, meat, and oil. Almost every meal includes bread with different kinds of dippings such as hummus.

Maqluba

A very common shared dish in big dinners is maqluba. This simple rice-and-chicken dish is cooked in a big pot and can include cauliflower and nuts. Serving the maqluba is the most exciting moment of the night as the pot is flipped over to make a sort of a cake of it.

Musakhan

This is a dish composed of roasted chicken baked with caramelized onions, sumac, allspice, saffron, and fried pine nuts served with taboon bread. Traditionally the chicken is served over the bread but sometimes the locals stuff it inside a rolled bread.

Wara Aneb

Rolled vine leaves stuffed with rice and lamb. Perfect for a small snack or a side dish.

Falafel Sandwich

A very common way to eat falafel is inside pita bread. With falafel, it is common to fill the sandwich with french fries, fried aubergine, tomato, cucumber, hummus, chili sauce, and pickled turnips.

Chicken Shwarma

 This popular Middle Eastern dish is very similar to kebab – it is a pile of thin cut meat slices in a skewer. Shwarma is often served with hummus or tahini and salads, It can also be wrapped inside a flatbread. In Palestine, the chicken shwarma is most common, although shwarma can also be for example lamb or beef.

Lamb Kofta

This is a typical dish in barbeques. Kofta is basically meatballs. In Palestine, it´s most often made of lamb with herbs.

Tabouleh

A salad made of tomatoes, cucumber, parsley and bulgur spiced with lemon. Tabouleh is a common side dish.

SWEETS

Let´s not forget about the sweets – the Palestinians love their sugary bit of the cuisine. All the sweets involve amazing amounts of sugar and oil so you might want to get a gym membership while living in Hebron!

Konafa

A traditional Arab dessert made with thin noodle-like pastry soaked in sweet, sugar-based syrup, layered with cheese. The most famous city for Konafa (or kanafeh or many other variations of spelling) is Nablus.

Baclava.

A small bit of pastry made of filo-doe, cyrup, and nuts. A perfect piece of dessert with coffee.