My Cookbook: Souk to Table 
SOUK TO TABLE: Vibrant Middle Eastern Dishes for Everyday Meals
My Debut Cookbook is here! Enrich your weeknight meals with 100 easy-to-make, traditional and modern vibrant Middle Eastern dishes.
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About the Cookbook
I am SO thrilled to finally share my debut cookbook with you. This homestyle cookbook gathers the best of the region—dips, condiments, salads, sides, mains, soups, stews, desserts, and drinks—using easy-to-find, fresh ingredients and delicious Arabic spices. In Souk to Table, you’ll find:
- 100 easy-to-make and delicious recipes from Amina’s homeland of Iraq, as well as Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, and beyond
- Dinners that can be made in under 30 minutes, and one hour for easy weeknight cooking, as well as traditional dishes “worth the effort” for weekend cooking
- A simpler approach to Middle Eastern cooking without sacrificing any of the authentic flavors
- A stunning photo accompanying every recipe
- How to stock your pantry PLUS substitutes for every single middle eastern ingredient!
Growing up, one of my famous phrases whenever I’d be in the kitchen with my mom, helping her prepare elaborate dinners is: “I’m never going to do this when I have my own family. I’ll just order pizza. Or I’ll pay someone to cook for me.”
Fast forward many years, and I now not only cook most days of the week, but I enjoy it. But I did still stick to my younger self’s promise: I found easier ways to still make delicious food without labouring for hours over traditional dishes. And this cookbook is exactly that: recipes that celebrate the vibrant flavours of the middle east, but ones that you will come back to time and again because they are easier versions of my favourite dishes.
I curated these recipes from many countries across the region, to show how varied middle eastern cooking is. I also tested them vigorously to make sure they will work in your kitchens from the very first time! I truly hope you pick up a copy, flip through it, and find a recipe that calls your name every single day of the week!
About Amina Al-Saigh
Amina Al-Saigh is the founder of the Middle Eastern food blog Hungry Paprikas. She holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering, as well as a Masters of Science. After a ten-year career as an engineer in the power industry, she decided to transition into entrepreneurship and dedicate more of her time to building her blog.
Her mission is to redefine Middle Eastern cuisine beyond popularized dishes and help her readers experience the varied and vibrant cuisine, all while simplifying her recipes for the modern, busy home.
Over the years she has become a go-to expert on Middle Eastern cooking, contributing to and being featured by Food Network Canada, Chatelaine Magazine, and the CBC.
She is Iraqi-Canadian and resides in the Greater Toronto Area with her husband and two children.
