A FOOD TRADITION
Kuwaiti Cuisine
A Gulf cooking tradition centered on spiced rice, seafood, wheat and grain dishes, slow-cooked stews, flatbreads, and fragrant sweets.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
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Asida
A traditional Kuwaiti flour-based sweet made by cooking wheat flour with sugar, butter, cardamom, saffron, and water into a soft pudding.
Balaleet
Balaleet is a Bahraini sweet vermicelli dish flavored with cardamom and saffron and commonly topped with an egg omelet.
Darabeel
A Kuwaiti rolled sweet pastry made from wheat-flour dough with sugar, oil, cinnamon, and cardamom.
Elba
Elba is a Kuwaiti caramel custard made by setting a sweetened milk-and-egg mixture beneath a layer of caramel.
Gabout
Gabout is a Bahraini dish of filled flour dumplings simmered in a savory, spiced stew.
Gers Ogaily
A Kuwaiti saffron-and-cardamom sponge cake typically baked with wheat flour, eggs, sugar, oil, and sesame seeds.
Ghrayba
Ghrayba is a crumbly Kuwaiti shortbread made with flour, ghee or butter, sugar, and aromatic cardamom.
Harees
Harees is a traditional Bahraini dish of wheat and meat simmered for a long time and beaten into a smooth, savory porridge.
Jareesh
Jareesh is a Kuwaiti savory porridge of cracked wheat slowly cooked with onions, spices, and commonly beef or chicken until soft.
Khabeesa
A Bahraini sweet flour pudding made by cooking toasted wheat flour with ghee, sugar, cardamom, saffron, and rose water until thick and fragrant.
Khanfaroosh
Khanfaroosh is a Bahraini sweet fried cake or fritter made from rice and wheat flours, egg, saffron, cardamom, and rose water.
Khubz Iranian
A thin, yeasted Iranian-style flatbread commonly prepared in Kuwait from wheat flour and often finished with sesame seeds.
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