Easy Make-Ahead Carrot and Chickpea Salad With Dill and Pumpkin Seeds

This easy, make-ahead chickpea salad combines chickpeas with grated carrots, pumpkin seeds, and plenty of dill. It's the ideal food for a packed lunch, whether it's at school, the office, or on the road.

Make-Ahead Chickpea Salad With Cumin and Celery

A simple salad of chickpeas dressed in a light vinaigrette flavored with cumin, shallots, and olive oil. Crunchy celery and parsley finish it off. This is the kind of salad that gets better as it sits—Make it one night and pack it for lunch at the office or on a picnic the next day.

Chickpea, Shrimp, and Chorizo Pita Sandwiches

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Homemade Falafel

Here's a recipe for falafel that's crisp on the outside and light and fluffy on the inside, while still very moist and packed with herb and spice flavor.

Homemade Pita Bread

Puffy yeast-raised pita bread, perfect for splitting and filling with your choice of ingredients, is easy to make at home.

Sabich Sandwiches (Pitas With Eggplant, Eggs, Hummus, and Tahini)

Filled with fried eggplant, hard-boiled egg, creamy hummus, pickles, Israeli salad, and drizzled with tahini sauce and amba,sabich is all you could want in any sandwich.

Arayes - Lebanese Meat-Stuffed Crispy Pita

Arayes - pita pockets stuffed with seasoned meat kofta filling, then pan fried until crispy. Lebanese street food - kind of like quesadillas!

Two Kinds of Pita Chips & Homemade Hummus

When it comes to satisfying my inner mindless snack addict, I love pita chips and hummus as much as the next hipster in denial, but sometimes the store-bought version can be pricey and laden with

King of Falafel & Shawarma's Falafel from 'New York a la Cart'

I eat a lot of falafel. It can come from a cart, a restaurant, or even a deli case--I don't really discriminate. But I probably should be more picky because most of the falafel out there isn't great. So much of the falafel I find is either greasy and falling apart or dense and dry. But after making King of Falafel & Shawarma's falafel recipe in Alexandra Penfold and Siobhan Wallace's new cookbook, New York a la Cart, I may stop buying my falafel pre-made (unless of course I happen to be in Astor...

Hummus Masabacha (Hummus With Whole Chickpeas)

Hummus masabacha is a popular variant of the Middle Eastern chickpea spread in which most or all of the chickpeas are left whole and tossed with the tahini sauce, instead of being puréed into it. There are endless variations on it, but at its heart, it's as easy as can be, and lots more interesting than your average hummus spread.