🇱🇧 Lebanon
Labneh
Every Lebanese fridge has labneh; every Lebanese childhood has a labneh-and-cucumber sandwich.
🔪 Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 0 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Strained overnight, served in a swoosh with olive oil, dried mint, and olives — or rolled into balls kept in oil.
Ingredients
- 1 kgwhole-milk yogurt
- 1 tspsalt
- 4 tbspolive oil
- 1 tspdried mint
- to tastecucumber, mint, olives to serve
Method
- 1
Stir salt into the yogurt and pour into a cheesecloth-lined sieve.
- 2
Strain in the fridge overnight (longer for labneh balls).
- 3
Spread on a plate with the back of a spoon.
- 4
Flood with olive oil and dust with dried mint.
- 5
Serve with bread, cucumber, mint, and olives.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6