Israeli cuisine spicy or sweet-and-sour, with ingredients such as bell peppers, chili peppers, figs, onion, artichoke bottoms, Swiss chard, beet, dried fruits, tomato, vine leaves, potatoes, mallow, eggplants and zucchini squash, and stuffing such as meat and rice in Balkan style, bulgur in Middle Eastern fashion, or with ptitim, a type of Israeli pasta. The Ottoman Turks introduced stuffed vine leaves in the 16th century and vine leaves are commonly stuffed with a combination of meat and rice, although other fillings, such as lentils, have evolved among the various communities. Artichoke bottoms stuffed with meat are famous as one the grand dishes
Vegetable soups in Filipino cuisine cabbage ("repolyo"), lemon grass ("tanglad"), "Momordica charantia" ("ampalaya"), young luffa ("patola"), unripe papaya ("kapayas"), and chayote ("sayote"). It may also be seasoned with pork, beef, chicken, fish stock and salt. Variations of this dish may contain coconut milk. Other variations may contain fresh or dried fish ("bulad" or "uga"), shrimp, mussels or clams. In the United States where "Moringa oleifera" may be hard to find, clover leaves may serve as a substitute. Vegetable soups in Filipino cuisine Vegetable soups in Filipino cuisine, called "utan", "utan bisaya", "sinabawang gulay", "law-oy" or "laswa" in various regional Philippine languages, are vegetable soups usually