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What to eat in Palestine

The 10 best dishes in Palestine

Olive oil, taboon bread and the market cooking of Nablus and Gaza.

1

Musakhan

Eaten all over Palestine

Roast chicken on taboon bread soaked in olive oil with sumac and onions, the national dish.

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2

Maqluba

Eaten all over Palestine

Upside-down rice with chicken and fried eggplant.

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3

Knafeh nabulsieh

Best: Nablus

Sweet white cheese under fine pastry in syrup, the best in the world in Nablus.

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4

Mansaf

Best: Hebron

Lamb in jameed yogurt sauce over rice.

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5

Falafel

Eaten all over Palestine

Chickpea and herb fritters fried green inside, stuffed into bread with tahini, pickles and salad.

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Sumagiyya

Best: Gaza

A sumac and chard stew with lamb and chickpeas.

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7

Maftoul

Eaten all over Palestine

Hand-rolled couscous with chicken and chickpeas.

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Qidra

Best: Hebron

Rice cooked with lamb in a clay pot.

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9

Za'atar manakish

Eaten all over Palestine

Flatbread with za'atar and oil.

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10

Ka'ak al-Quds

Best: Jerusalem

Oval sesame bread rings with za'atar.

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Photos: each dish's lead photo on its Wikipedia article (license and author on Wikimedia Commons); "a photo like it" is a food photo of the same kind, not that dish. Cook it opens a recipe in Chef Amazing, or Chef writes one for you. Picked by Chef Amazing, November 2026.