الوصفة فيها زيت وبصل وبندورة.

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

il-waSfe fīha zēt w-baSal w-bandōra

A rough breakdown:

• الوصفة → il-waSfe = the recipe
• فيها → fīha = in it / it has
• زيت → zēt = oil
• وبصل → w-baSal = and onion
• وبندورة → w-bandōra = and tomato

A few notes:

• The و meaning and is attached directly to the next word.
• The ة at the end of الوصفة is pronounced like -e / -a in Levantine, so waSfe, not waSfat here.
• Exact vowels vary a bit by country and city.

فيها literally means in it.

But in everyday Arabic, especially in Levantine, في + a pronoun is often used to express the idea of there is / it has / it contains.

So in this sentence, الوصفة فيها... is naturally understood as:

• The recipe has...
• There is ... in the recipe
• The recipe contains...

So even though the literal meaning is in it, the natural English meaning is it has.

Because الوصفة is grammatically feminine.

In Arabic, the pronoun attached to في has to match the noun:

• فيه = in it, for a masculine noun
• فيها = in it, for a feminine noun

Since وصفة is feminine, you say فيها.

For example:

• الكتاب فيه صور = The book has pictures.
  (كتاب is masculine)
• الوصفة فيها زيت = The recipe has oil.
  (وصفة is feminine)

Because it ends in ة (the taa marbuuTa), which very often marks feminine nouns in Arabic.

So:

• وصفة = recipe, feminine
• therefore: الوصفة فيها...

This is one of the first grammar patterns learners notice: many nouns ending in ة are feminine, though not every feminine noun has to end that way.

Arabic often expresses this idea differently from English.

In English, you say:

• The recipe has oil

In Levantine Arabic, a very natural structure is:

• The recipe, in it oil

That sounds odd in English, but it is perfectly normal in Arabic.

So instead of a verb like has, Levantine often uses:

• فيه / فيها = there is / it has / in it

This is extremely common in spoken Arabic.

الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• وصفة = a recipe / recipe
• الوصفة = the recipe

In this sentence, الوصفة is definite, so it means the recipe.

Because they are being mentioned as ingredients in a general sense, not as specific previously identified items.

So:

• زيت = oil
• بصل = onion
• بندورة = tomato

In ingredient lists, Arabic often leaves nouns indefinite like this, just as English often says:

• It has oil, onion, and tomato

You could sometimes make them definite in other contexts, but here the bare noun form sounds very natural.

Arabic does not have an indefinite article like English a/an.

So:

• بصل can mean onion or some onion, depending on context
• بندورة can mean tomato or some tomato

Context tells you how specific the meaning is.

In ingredient-style sentences, English often also drops a/an:

• The recipe has oil, onion, and tomato

So the Arabic here is very natural.

Yes, بندورة is a very common Levantine word for tomato.

This is a useful dialect point:

• In Levantine: بندورة
• In many other varieties or in Modern Standard Arabic contexts, you may also hear طماطم or related forms

So if you are learning Levantine specifically, بندورة is a great everyday word to know.

It is grammatically singular in form, but in meaning it often works like a mass ingredient noun.

In cooking, بصل can mean:

• onion
• onions
• some onion

The exact English translation depends on context. Ingredient words often behave this way in Arabic.

So in a recipe sentence, بصل does not necessarily mean exactly one onion. It just means the ingredient onion is included.

This is a very common and natural Levantine pattern:

[noun] + فيه / فيها + [things]

Examples:

• البيت فيه حديقة = The house has a garden
• الكتاب فيه صور = The book has pictures
• الوصفة فيها زيت = The recipe has oil

So the order is not unusual at all. It sets up the topic first:

• the recipe and then says what is in it:
• there is oil, onion, and tomato in it

Yes, but it changes the structure slightly.

Compare:

• الوصفة فيها زيت وبصل وبندورة
  = The recipe has oil, onion, and tomato

• في الوصفة زيت وبصل وبندورة
  = In the recipe there is oil, onion, and tomato

Both are natural, but the emphasis is a little different:

• الوصفة فيها... focuses first on the recipe
• في الوصفة... focuses first on in the recipe

Both are useful patterns to know.

Because in Arabic, the conjunction و (and) is normally written as a prefix attached to the following word.

So:

• و + بصل → وبصل
• و + بندورة → وبندورة

This is completely normal Arabic spelling.
When reading, just remember that the w- sound belongs to the word after it:

• w-baSal
• w-bandōra

It sounds very natural in spoken Levantine, especially because of words and structure like:

• فيها used in this everyday way
• بندورة for tomato

A more formal or Modern Standard Arabic version would likely use somewhat different wording.

So this is a good example of real everyday dialect, not stiff textbook Arabic.

Yes. Both are natural ways to understand it in English.

That is because فيها sits in the overlap of:

• in it
• there is in it
• it has

So depending on how smooth you want the English to sound, you could understand it as either:

• The recipe has oil, onion, and tomato or
• There is oil, onion, and tomato in the recipe

Both reflect the Arabic well.