Kuwaiti cuisine

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.
• 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 – Kuwaiti dish consisting of a roasted lamb stuffed with rice, meat, eggs, and other ingredients.

  Sauces and Soups

• Daqqus – Type of tomato sauce served alongside rice
• Mabboj – It is hot sauce, red or green pepper mixed with other ingredients.
• Marrag – It is a type of Broth with tomato paste and virities of Vegetables and species.
• Lentil soup

  Desserts

• Asida – a dish made up of cooked wheat flour, with added butter or honey.
• Balaleet – sweet saffron noodles served with a savoury omelette on top.
• Bayth elgitta – 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 due to its similar shape.
• Darabeel – made from flour, eggs, milk and sugar formed into very thin rolled layers. Sometimes sugar, cardamom or cinnamon are added.
• Lugaimat – fried yeast dumplings topped with sugar syrup.
• Gers ogaily – a traditional cake made with eggs, flour, sugar, cardamom, and saffron. Traditionally served with tea.
• Zalabia – fried dough soaked in syrup – similar to lugaimat but with additional saffron and cardamom syrup.
• Elba – Kuwaiti milk pudding with saffron and cardamom.

  Beverages

• Laban
• Sharbat baithan
• Black tea served in delicate cups called istacana
• Arabic coffee
• Kuwaiti tea
• Dried lime tea
• Karak tea
• Different varieties of Arabic tea