Kuwaiti Cuisine - Dishes

Dishes

  • Qouzi, Kuwaiti dish consisting of a roasted lamb stuffed with rice, meat, eggs, and other ingredients.
  • Machboos, the national dish made with mutton, chicken, or fish accompanied over fragrant rice that has been cooked in chicken/mutton well spiced broth.
  • Laban (buttermilk)
  • Gers Ogaily, a traditional cake made with eggs, flour, sugar, cardamom, and saffron. Traditionally served with tea.
  • Harees, wheat cooked with meat then mashed, usually topped with cinnamon sugar.
  • Jireesh (yireesh), a mash of cooked spelt with chicken or lamb, tomatoes, and some spices.
  • Gabout (gabboot), stuffed flour dumplings in a thick meat stew.
  • Biryani, heavily seasoned rice cooked with chicken or lamb. Originally an Indian dish. Very common in Kuwait.
  • Mutabbaq samak, fish served over rice. Rice is cooked in well spiced fish stock.
  • Balaleet, sweet saffron noodles served with savory omelet on top.
  • Ghuraiba, brittle cookies usually served with Arabic coffee.
  • Mumawwash, rice cooked with black lentils and topped with dry shrimp.
  • Zalabia, fried dough soaked in syrup (sugar, lemon, and saffron).
  • Lugaimat, fried yeast dumplings soaked in saffron syrup (sugar, lemon, and saffron).

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