Middle Eastern cuisine fava are cooked like other green beans, boiled and dressed in oil, or stewed with meat. The haricot beans and black-eyed beans are also common. Lentils, split peas, and chickpeas are widely used in soups, with rice, in salads, or with meat. Hummus, made from chickpeas and sesame paste, originated in Syria and Lebanon. Stuffed vegetables are a dish most associated with the Middle East in the popular mind. They are commonly called dolma, the Turkish word meaning "stuffed," but also the Arabic mahshi. Grape leaves, chard, and cabbage are stuffed with rice, ground meat, pine nuts, and spices, and
Pyzy (dish) Pyzy (dish) Pyzy () are a type of dumpling (kluski). The dish is most commonly referred to in its plural for "pyzy", as it is most commonly served as a main course meal: large oval-shaped kluski, characteristic to Polish cuisine. Potato pyzy are prepared from boiled potatoes, optionally with added flour, eggs and salt, cooked in boiling water. Stuffed with meat, twaróg or mushroom stuffing, alternatively served without stuffing, and instead served with bacon, lard or fried onion. Dishes prepared similar to pyzy are inter alia: kartacze, goły, potato knedle and Silesian dumplings ("kluski śląskie"). Leavened pyzy or "pyzy drożdżowe"