List of Israeli dishes

Main dishes

Meat

• Jerusalem mixed grill - originating in Jerusalem, a mixed grill of chicken hearts, spleens and liver mixed with bits of lamb cooked on a flat grill, seasoned with a spice blend and served with rice, mujaddara or bamia
• Kubba seleq - stew or soup made of beet
• Shashlik
• Kufta - meatballs made of minced meat, spices and herbs cooked in tomato sauce, tamarind or date molasses with assorted vegetables
• Skewered Goose Liver - flavored with spices
• Merguez - a spicy sausage originating in North Africa, mainly eaten grilled in Israel
• Moussaka - oven-baked layer dish of a ground meat and eggplant casserole
• Schnitzel - fried chicken breast with breadcrumb or spice-flavored flour coating

  Fish

• Tilapia - St. Peter's fish, eaten in Israel and especially in Tiberias fried or baked with spices
• Denesse - in the coastal region, baked with yogurt, tomatoes, garlic, dried mint and cucumbers; also prepared fried.
• Gefilte fish - traditional Ashkenazi Jewish quenelles made of carp, whitefish, or pike, typically eaten as an appetizer and

  Vegetarian

• Kubba bamia - dumplings made of semolina or rice and okra cooked in a tomato stew or soup
• Shakshouka - eggs poached in a sauce of tomatoes, chili peppers, and onions, often spiced with cumin
• Brik
• Malawach - bread eaten with fresh grated tomato and skhug
• Hamin - long cooked Sabbath stews made a variety of with meats, grains and root vegetables
• Jakhnun - pastry served on Shabbat morning with fresh grated tomato and skhug, eaten for breakfast especially in Shabbath
• Ziva - puff pastry topped with sesame seeds and filled with cheese and olives
• Ptitim
• Couscous
• Orez Shu'it - white beans cooked in a tomato stew and served on rice
• Burgul - cooked in many ways.
• Kishka - stuffed derma, typically cooked in Sabbath stews
• Macaroni Hamin - a traditional Sephardi Jerusalemite dish originally from the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
• Khachapuri - bread filled with eggs and cheese.
• Ktzitzot Khubeza - a patty made of mallow, bulgur/bread crumbs, eggs, onion, olive oil

  Soups

• Shkedei marak - Shkedei marak are small yellow squares made from flour and palm oil.
• Maraq 'Adashim - Lentil soup cooked with tomato sauce
• Maraq Shuit - White bean soup cooked with tomato sauce
• Matzah ball - The balls are dropped into a pot of salted boiling water or chicken soup, and are a staple food on Passover.

  Meze

• Kubba - Mixture of bulgur and meat stuffed with meat, nuts or raisins and spices and sometimes parsley or mint
• Memulaim - Vegetables and dried fruits filled with rice, bulgur, lamb, chicken, beef or fish and cooked in tomato sauce or date, carob, tamarind or pomegranate molasses.
• Bourekas - phyllo or puff pastry that can be filled with vegetables, cheese, meat, spices, herbs, nuts, pickles, etc.
• Sambusak - pastry that can be filled with cheese, spices, herbs, chickpeas, fish, meat with pine nuts, or a mixture of chickpeas and meat
• Kreplach - are small dumplings filled with ground meat, mashed potatoes or another filling, usually boiled and served in chicken soup, though they may also be served fried.

  Salads and dips

• Israeli salad - made with tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, parsley
• Salat ḥatzilim b'mayonnaise - contains fried eggplant, mayonnaise, garlic
• Tabbouleh - Parsley and bulgur salad with diced tomatoes, onions and lemon juice
• Baba ghanoush - Aubergine salad with tahini, parsley and garlic. Sometimes hot sauce is added.
• Hummus - Ground garbanzo beans with tahina and olive oil, eaten with pita or taboonbread.
• Fattoush - Mixed leaf vegetable salad with pita bread pieces and sumac
• Ful medames - Ground fava beans and olive oil
• Masbaha
• Salat avocado - rural salad made of avocados, with lemon juice and chopped scallions
• Matbucha - cooked dish of tomatoes and roasted bell peppers seasoned with garlic and chili pepper.
• Carrot salad
• Cabbage salad
• Coleslaw
• Greek salad
• Sabich salad - rural sabich dish that made as salad, the ingredients of it are almost the same as of the Sabich itself despite the Hummus and the Pita bread
• Hamusim - Vegetables are soaked in water and salt in a pot and drawn from the air for the week such as: cucumber and cabbage, eggplant, carrot, turnip, radish, onion, caper, lemon, olives, cauliflower, tomatoes, chili, bell pepper, garlic and beans.

  Cheeses and yogurts

• Tzfat cheese - semi-hard salty sheep milk cheese
• Labneh - Strained yogurt
• Cottage cheese
• Circassian cheese
• Feta cheese
• Bulgarian cheese
• Halloumi
• Gvina levana - Israeli quark cheese, is sold in different fat content variations
• Milky - Yogurt that has chocolate pudding and vanilla whipped cream and other variations

  Spices and condiments

• Ras el hanout
• Za'atar
• Sumac
• Baharat
• Hawaij
• Filfel chuma
• Tahini
• Skhug
• Harissa
• Amba

  Breads

Breads

• Taboon bread
• Pita
• Challah
• Sliced bread - less common today
• Bagel
• Mofletta
• Matzah
• Malawach
• Kubaneh

  Bread dishes

• Falafel - Fried chickpeas, spice and parsley ball
• Shawarma - Pita bread roll of meat, tahini and various vegetables, in Israel it is also served with Amba condiment
• Pita afuya im za'tar - Taboon bread topped with za'atar and olive oil
• Sambusak - Fried dough balls stuffed with meat and onion or with cheese
• Jerusalem mixed grill - can be served in pita or laffa
• Bagel toast
• Sabich - Israeli dish served in pita bread, traditionally contains fried eggplant, hard boiled eggs, hummus, tahini, Israeli salad, potato, parsley and amba. Traditionally it is made with haminados eggs, slow-cooked in Hamin until they turn brown. Sometimes it is doused with hot sauce and sprinkled with minced onion.
• Lahmacun - round, thin piece of dough topped with minced meat and minced vegetables and herbs including onions, tomatoes and parsley, then baked.
• Havita b'laffa - Omelette in a Taboon bread, served with Hummus or Labneh.
• Tunisian sandwich

  Snacks

• Falafel
• Fried Kubba
• Bourekas
• Bamba
• Sambusak
• Labneh b'laffa - Strained yogurt in a Taboon bread - morning snack
• Sufganiyah
• Sfenj
• Bissli
• Krembo
• Cow Chocolate
• Klik
• Pesek Zman
• Mekupelet
• Tortit
• Frikandel
• Pannekoek special

  Sweets and desserts

• Silan
• Baklava
• Watermelon with Sirene or Safed cheese and sometimes mint leaves
• Zangula
• Rugelach
• Halva
• Hamantash
• Krantz cake
• Ma'amoul
• Malabi
• Tahini cookie
• Kugel
• Fazuelos
• Levivot
• Halva ice cream
• Lekach
• Lahoh
• Pancake - Pancakes and crepes filled with nutella chocolate spread and banana
• Ice cream - Ice creams, ice pops, and sorbets come in many flavors including hummus, Bamba, arak, watermelon, Bulgarian cheese, labane, and zaatar flavored

  Beverages

• Arak - Anise flavored alcoholic beverage, sometimes flavored with grapefruit or khat juices instead of water.
• Israeli wine
• Pomegranate wine
• Turkish coffee
• Sahlab - boiled milk with starch, covered with smashed coconut and cinnamon
• Limonana - type of lemonade made from freshly-squeezed lemon juice and mint leaves
• Vodka - distilled beverage composed primarily of water and ethanol, sometimes with traces of impurities and flavorings.
• Beer
• Tea sometimes flavored with rosewater, mint, lemon juice, honey or date honey
• Pomegranate juice
• Gat - A juice made of Khat, in Jerusalem it is mixed with citron and named Etrogat.
• Apricot juice
• Orange juice
• Sugarcane juice
• Chocolate milk in a bag

  Other

• Israeli breakfast