Chicken Shwarma and Rice Pilaf. This is the great Mediterranean food in Dallas. This is one of my daughter-in-law's favorite places. If I lived in Dallas, I would surf the menu. Thanks, Lexi, for the find.
Located near the University:
Food from Galilee is located on Snider Plaza, a nice lazy street near Lovers Lane in Dallas. To find it, get on the North Central Expressway. Turn left onto Mockingbird Lane and right on to Hillcrest Ave and left on to Haynie Ave. Finally turn right onto Snider Plaza. If you live in the Dallas area, you probably know a better way.
Hommos:
Pureed garbanzo bean dip with garlic and lemon juice … great stuff! See the hole at 11:30. We hit the hommos before the photo opt.
Baba Ghannouj:
Eggplant dip … even better stuff. I wish I knew how to make this at home. For me, baba ghannouj is the Mediterranean appetizer of choice. It's charbroiled eggplant made like the hommos with lemon and garlic. Both have this flavored thickening agent, tahini sauce which is the consistency of peanut butter before being thinned into the dip.
Pita Bread:
Perfectly baked. For you who have not dined in a Mediterranean restaurant, pita bread is what is used to eat hommus and baba gannouj.
Spicy Mediterranean Salad:
They have regular salad, but why? This is finely chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce seasoned and served in olive-oil based dressing with all kinds of spices. Sorry for the photo, it's dark in this restaurant.
Chicken Shwarma:
This is a favorite of my wife's youngest son Jose. Tender strips of marinated white meat seasoned and sautéed to perfection. And that's a plateful of chicken!
Gyros Platter
Excuse the light. It's still dark in here, but the gyros are great, "seasoned lamb and beef slowly roasted in their own juice". I like to try new stuff when I come here, buy gyro meat is my fallback dish. If they had nothing else on the menu, I would come back for their gyro meat.
Beef Sambosa:
This was one of the new-to-me menu items that I tried. Neat little pies with seasoned ground beef inside. In addition, they've been stuffed with tomato, onion and almonds. The almond slivers give the dish that special taste. The pies are deep fried, and they give you this tasty cream sauce on the side. You can see from my plate that the sauce didn't stay on the side. This dish also comes as chicken instead of beef or as an appetizer. I highly recommend this dish.
On my next visit…
The stuffed Cornish hen is on my mind for my next visit to the Food from Galilee. The mene says the hen is stuffed with rice, meat, sautéed almonds, and baked to a golden brown.
