A FOOD TRADITION
Omani Cuisine
Omani cuisine combines rice, meat, seafood, breads, dates, and aromatic spices across inland, coastal, and desert cooking traditions.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
1–12 of 27
Arsia
Arsia is an Omani savory rice dish in which rice and chicken are cooked until very soft, enriched with ghee, and seasoned with cardamom before being mashed or stirred into a cohesive preparation.
Aseeda
Aseeda is a thick boiled grain-flour preparation found across South Sudan, Sudan, Chad, and other neighboring cuisines, commonly served warm with savory sauce or stew and sometimes prepared in sweet forms.
Balaleet
Balaleet is a Bahraini sweet vermicelli dish flavored with cardamom and saffron and commonly topped with an egg omelet.
Dango
An Omani preparation of boiled chickpeas seasoned with salt, cumin, and often chili or turmeric, served as a warm snack or side dish.
Fatta
An Egyptian layered dish of toasted bread, rice, meat, broth, and a garlicky vinegar dressing, often finished with tomato sauce or ghee.
Harees
Harees is a traditional Bahraini dish of wheat and meat simmered for a long time and beaten into a smooth, savory porridge.
Jasheed
Jasheed is a traditional Omani savory dish of shredded shark sautéed with onion, garlic, cumin, turmeric, chili, and lemon.
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 Ragag
Khubz Ragag is a very thin Omani griddle bread made from a simple wheat-flour batter or dough and served warm.
Khubz Tawa
Khubz Tawa is an Omani flatbread cooked on a tawa from wheat flour, water, salt, and sometimes enriching ingredients.
Luqaimat
A Bahraini sweet made from yeast-raised wheat-flour dumplings that are fried and finished with sugar syrup or another sweet topping.
Catalogue preview Cuisine connections may be unreviewed. Regional comparisons include their food references and do not establish the ingredients of a particular meal.