🇸🇾 Syria
Shanklish
Shanklish was born in the villages between Homs and the coast, where cheese is dried, aged, and rolled in wild thyme until it bites back.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 0 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
A well-aged, pungent ball coated in za'atar, served crumbled with raw onion and a heavy pour of oil.
Ingredients
- 1 aged shanklish ball
- 2 tomatoes, diced
- 1 onion, finely minced
- 2 tbspza'atar
- ½ tspAleppo pepper
- 5 tbspolive oil
Method
- 1
Crumble the shanklish into a wide plate, breaking up the dense center.
- 2
Scatter the tomatoes and minced onion over the cheese.
- 3
Dust with extra za'atar and Aleppo pepper, then flood generously with olive oil.
- 4
Fold once at the table and scoop with fresh bread.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4