Typical Qatari food that is a favorite at the 2022 World Cup

The 2022 World Cup is here, thousands of people are starting to flock to Qatar and everyone wants to enjoy some of the country’s local and traditional cuisine. This article will present typical Qatari food that you can recommend.

It should be noted that Qatari food represents its expatriate population of 2.3 million people, with specialty restaurants serving food from the immigrants’ hometowns according to https://orbakers.com/.

Workers and investors began arriving on the small Qatari peninsula in the 1950s. They first built Qatar and then settled and worked there.

Qatar has an area of 132 square kilometers and is one of the smallest countries in the world. Classic Qatari dishes are typically one-pot dishes cooked using land and sea foods with fish featuring in summer dishes and meat in the winter months.

Machboo

Machboos are what biryani is to India. It is Qatar’s national dish and is also claimed by neighboring countries such as Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE, although each has slight variations.

Basmati rice is usually the base of this dish which is cooked in stock and added to grilled meat usually chicken, lamb, fish, even camel is very popular.

Khubs rgag

Khubs rgag is a paper-thin flatbread made from flour, water and salt. The way to make it is quite easy, namely the dough is kneaded and then rolled out to be cooked on a tawaah (a large flat iron plate that is traditionally heated over coals).

This crispbread can be found served as a street snack or at tourist attractions such as Souq Waqif in Doha. This dish is usually mixed with Kiri cheese spread or Nutella is offered as a topping, making it modern even though it is a traditional food.

Thareed

As the name suggests, thareed is a large clay pot dish that is traditionally used to make this dish. This food is a chicken or lamb broth soup with a delicious combination of tomato sauce.

Thareed is cooked on the stove with seasonal vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, onions and chickpeas. A tip to taste the essence of this dish, dig a serving spoon into the bottom of the pan because at the bottom you will find a layer of khubs rgag.

Harees

This food is cooked by soaking overnight, boiling, breaking or coarsely pounding. Then in the morning it is grilled to slow cook for five to six hours with blended pieces of lamb or chicken, or sometimes both.

The dish is then pounded to an elastic texture and often seasoned with cinnamon and cumin, then served with ghee on top. Qatari families usually send these pots to neighbors’ homes as a gesture of goodwill, especially in the month of Ramadan.

Madrouba

This dish can be described as a fragrant and spiced rice porridge, topped with your choice of protein.

This food is slow cooked like harees. Rice is boiled for hours in milk and butter and seasoned with cardamom. Although it makes it sound like pudding but the addition of tender, slow cooked meat or chicken changes everything.

The key to perfecting this dish lies in mixing all the possible ingredients so that the flavors blend together and give it a smoky taste. This dish is best served steaming hot, making the perfect comfort food.