🇱🇧 Lebanon
Fried Cauliflower
Arnabeet meqli is the Lebanese answer to fast food: florets fried until nutty and sweet, rolled into bread with tarator and mint.
🔪 Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Deep-fried until caramelized at the edges, always served with lemony tarator and often as a wrap.
Ingredients
- 1 large cauliflower, cut into florets
- 4 tbsptahini
- 2 lemons, juiced
- 1 clovegarlic, crushed
- 1 tspsalt
- to tasteoil for deep frying
- to tastefresh mint and pickles, to serve
Method
- 1
Dry the florets well — wet cauliflower spits and steams instead of browning.
- 2
Fry in hot oil until deep gold with caramelized edges, then drain and salt while hot.
- 3
Whisk the tahini with lemon, garlic, salt, and cold water into a pourable tarator.
- 4
Pile the cauliflower on a plate and pour the tarator over, or serve it alongside for dipping.
- 5
Eat hot with mint leaves and pickles — or rolled into markouk bread.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4