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Middle Eastern cuisine or West Asian cuisine is the cuisine of the various countries and peoples of the Middle East (Western Asia). The cuisine of the region is diverse while having a degree of homogeneity. Some commonly used ingredients include olives and olive oil, pitas, honey, sesame seeds, sumac, chickpeas, mint and parsley.

[edit] Cuisines

• Afghan cuisine
• Armenian cuisine
• Azerbaijani cuisine
• Assyrian cuisine
• Bahraini cuisine
• Cypriot cuisine
• Emirati cuisine
• Georgian cuisine
• Iranian cuisine
• Iraqi cuisine
• Israeli cuisine
• Jordanian cuisine
• Kurdish cuisine
• Kuwaiti cuisine
• Lebanese cuisine
• Palestinian cuisine
• Saudi Arabian cuisine
• Syrian cuisine
• Turkish cuisine
• Yemeni cuisine

[edit] See also

• Arab cuisine
• Levantine cuisine
• Mediterranean cuisine
• Caucasian cuisine
• Ottoman cuisine
• Islamic dietary laws