Omani cuisine

Omani cuisine is part of the

Pork consumption is forbidden to Muslims in Oman, in accordance with Sharia, the Islamic law.

Characteristics

Although Omani cuisine varies within different regions of

• Harees is wheat mixed with meat or chicken cooked until it forms a thick paste eaten with the fingers or a spoon and served with ghee.
• Qabuli is rice mixed with camel meat or chicken cooked until the meat or chicken and rice is well to be eaten and then at the end some ghee. Eaten by hand. The Qabuli is an Omani dish that originates from the governorate of
  Dhofar
  .
• dates and Omani halwa.^[3]
• chicken or beef) barbecued or grilled, served with a side of vegetables
  .
• Mashuai is a dish consisting of a whole spit-roasted kingfish, served with a side of lemon rice.
• Machboos is a rice dish sometimes flavored with saffron and cooked in the same water that the chicken or meat was cooked in.
• Muqalab is heart, liver, lungs, and tripe cooked with a variety of spices, including cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black pepper, ginger, garlic, and nutmeg.
• Shuwaa is a meal eaten only on festive occasions. The dish consists of chunks of goat, sheep, cow, or camel meat marinated in a spicy date paste and roasted in a special oven, which is a pit dug in the ground. This is usually a communal activity by an entire village. The meat is flavoured with a variety of spices, then wrapped in sacks made of dry leaves, which are in turn placed into the oven.
• Sakhana is a thick soup made from
  dates, molasses, and milk, typically eaten during Ramadan
  .
• Albadhinajan mae tawarikh is a cake made from eggplant, dates, and onions.

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  Mushaltat is a wheat flatbread often stuffed with cheese, meat, honey or vegetables.