Kuwaiti cuisine


Kuwaiti cuisine is an amalgamation of primarily Arabian and Iranian, with modern influences from Indian. Kuwaiti cuisine is part of the Arabian cuisine">Arabian cuisine">Arabian cuisine. A prominent dish in Kuwaiti cuisine is machboos, a rice-based dish usually prepared with basmati rice seasoned with spices, and chicken or mutton.
Seafood is a significant part of the Kuwaiti diet, especially fish. Mutabbaq samak is a national dish in Kuwait. Other local favourites are hamour, which is typically served grilled, fried, or with biryani rice because of its texture and taste; safi ; maid ; and sobaity.
Kuwait's traditional flatbread is called khubz. It is a large flatbread baked in a special oven and it is often topped with sesame seeds. Bread is often served with mahyawa fish sauce.

Dishes

Biryani – a very common dish, which consists of heavily seasoned rice cooked with chicken or lamb. Originally from the Indian sub-continent.Gabout, – stuffed flour dumplings in a thick meat stew.Harees – wheat cooked with meat then mashed, usually topped with cinnamon sugar.Jireesh – a mash of cooked spelt with chicken or lamb, tomatoes, and some spices.Machboos – a dish made with mutton, chicken, or fish accompanied over fragrant rice that has been cooked in chicken/mutton well-spiced broth.Mashkhool – white rice and at the bottom of the pot, there are rings of onion with turmeric and black pepper. and sometimes potatoes and eggplants are also added at the bottom of the pot.Mashwi jeder – white rice with beef or chicken, onions, potatoes and spices all at the bottom of the pot and then flipped upside down on a plate.
  • Maidem – a white rice and on top of it ground fish mixed with spices. Marabyan – a rice cooked with either fresh or dry shrimp.Maglooba – rice cooked with meat and potatoes and eggplant.Margoog – vegetable stew, usually containing squash and eggplant, cooked with thin pieces of rolled out dough.Mumawwash – rice cooked with green lentils and can be topped with dry shrimp.
  • Muaddas – rice cooked with red lentils and can be topped with dry shrimp.Mutabbaq samak – fish served over rice. Rice is cooked in well-spiced fish stock.Quzi – roasted lamb stuffed with rice, meat, eggs, and other ingredients.

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Desserts

Beverages