Kuwaiti cuisine
Kuwaiti cuisine is a fusion of
machboos, a rice-based dish usually prepared with basmati
rice seasoned with spices, and chicken or mutton.
sea bream
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Kuwait's traditional flatbread is called Iranian khubz. It is a large flatbread baked in a special oven and it is often topped with sesame seeds. Numerous local bakeries dot the country; the bakers are mainly Iranians (hence the name of the bread, "Iranian khubuz"). Bread is often served with mahyawa fish sauce.
There are many other cuisines available due to the international workforce in Kuwait.
Dishes
- Arabic: برياني) – a very common dish, which consists of heavily seasoned rice cooked with chicken or lamb. Originally from the Indian sub-continent.[4]
- Gabout (dumplingsin a thick meat stew.
- Arabic: هريس) – wheat cooked with meat then mashed, usually topped with cinnamon sugar.
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- Mashkhool (Arabic: مشخول) – 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 (Arabic: مشوي جدر) – 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 (Arabic: ميدم) – a white rice and on top of it ground fish mixed with spices.
- Marabyan (Arabic: مربين) – a rice cooked with either fresh or dry shrimp.
- Arabic: مقلوبة) – rice cooked with meat and potatoes and eggplant.
- Margoog (Arabic: مرقوق) – vegetable stew, usually containing squash and eggplant, cooked with thin pieces of rolled out dough.
- Mumawwash (lentils and can be topped with dry shrimp.
- Muaddas (Arabic: معدس) – rice cooked with red lentils and can be topped with dry shrimp.
- fish stock.
- eggs, and other ingredients.
Sauces and soups
- Daqqus (Arabic: دقوس) – Type of tomato sauce served alongside rice
- Arabic: معبوج) – It is hot sauce, red or green pepper mixed with other ingredients.
- Arabic: مهياوة) – a tangy fish sauce.
- Marrag (Arabic: مرق) – It is a type of brothwith tomato paste and a variety of vegetables and spices.
- Lentil soup
Desserts
- Arabic: عصيدة) – a dish made up of cooked wheat flour, with added butter or honey.
- Arabic: بلاليط) – sweet saffron noodles served with a savoury omelette on top.
- Bayth elgitta (Arabic: بيض القطا) – a fried cookie filled with a mixture of ground nuts and tossed in powdered sugar. It was named after the egg of the crowned sandgrouse(common to the area) due to its similar shape.
- Darabeel (Arabic: درابيل) – made from flour, eggs, milk and sugar formed into very thin rolled layers. Sometimes sugar, cardamom or cinnamon are added.
- Lugaimat (Arabic: لقيمات) – fried yeast dumplings topped with sugar syrup (sugar, saffron).
- Gers ogaily (.
- , it has a distinctive swirly shape.
- Ghraiba – Delicate cookies made of flour, butter, powdered sugar and cardamom. Usually served with Arabic coffee.
- Khabeesa – sweet dish made of flour and oil.
- Sab Alqafsha (Kuwaiti Arabic: صب القفشة) – similar to lugaimat but with additional saffron and cardamom syrup.
- Elba (Arabic: ألبة) – Kuwaiti milk pudding with saffron and cardamom.
- maghuta (Kuwaiti Arabic: ماغوطة)- It's a type of pudding that contains coconut shell powder Sago instead of starch made with saffron.[5][6]
Beverages
- Arabic: لبن) (yogurt milk)[7]
- Sharbatbaithan
- Black tea served in delicate cups called istikana
- Arabic coffee
- Kuwaiti tea
- Dried lime tea
- Karak tea
- Different varieties of Arabic tea
See also
References
- ISBN 9781933102559.
- ISBN 9781502636409.
- ^ "Consumption of fish and shellfish and the regional markets". Food and Agriculture Organization. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
- ^ a b Riolo, 2007, p.23 - 24
- ^ "أشهرها «التشريب» و«الماغوطة» و«الهريس»، الكويتيون حافظوا على عادات الاجداد الغذائية الخاصة بشهر رمضان". Albayan. 15 November 2002.
- ^ "عادات كويتية متأصلة في شهر رمضان المبارك". Kuna.
- ^ DiPiazza (2006) p.57
Bibliography
- Al-Hamad, Sarah, 2015, Cardamom and Lime: Tastes of the Arabian Gulf [1], Fox Chapel Publishing, ISBN 978-1-5048-0024-2
- DiPiazza, Francesca Davis, 2006 Kuwait in Pictures, Twenty-First Century Books, p. 56- 57, ISBN 0-8225-6589-7
- Riolo, Amy, 2007, Arabian Delights: Recipes & Princely Entertaining Ideas from the Arabian Peninsula, Capital Books, p. 23- 24, ISBN 1-933102-55-1
Further reading
- O'Shea, Maria, 1999, Kuwait, ISBN 0-7614-0871-1