Helllo,

This is my second thread related to Oman, just to give a share of views on Oman. :cute:

People, Please be my assistant in providing pictures and information related to Omani food.

As i know i would have soem difficulties to provide enough in this thread.

You coudl even prepare the food at home and take a picture of the dish and post it in here, but along with the pictures please provideus with the name of the dish and the information related to it of how it is made and from what ingredient/contents.

Thanking in advance to whom ever will contribute to this thread. :)

hi,

here is my first!ENJOY :hehe:

About the Omani Halwa:
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HALWA

Omani halwa (sweet) is famous at home and abroad as a symbol of traditional Omani hospitality.

It is usually served in Omani homes before drinking Arabic coffee.
The main ingredients which go into the making of halwa are: starch, eggs, sugar, water, ghee, saffron, cardamom, nuts and rose water from the Jebel al Akdhar. The ingredients are mixed, in proportions and quantities known only to the skilled halwamaker, and cooked in a mirjnl (large cooking pot used especially for halwa) for a time of not less than 2 hours.

The cooking can be done over a gas or electric stove, but the preferred method is over a wood fire made up of snmr wood, known for its durability, smoke and odourfree properties.

After cooking, the halwa can be preserved for more than four months without losing its quality, and without the need for refrigeration or preserving agents.

Halwa is usually served in a dist, a large earthenware bowl, which can vary in size and composition according to demand or type of occasion. The list can also be made of metal or plastic. Halwa is invariably served at times of joy or sorrow and, on religious occasions and festivals. It graces the tables of every Omani home.

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http://www.omanet.om/english/culture/images/dates.jpg

The Omani people are well known for their hospitality and offers of refreshment. To be invited into someone's home will mean coffee (kahwa), a strong, bitter drink flavoured with cardamom, and dates or halwa, a sticky sweet gelatinous substance which is made from brown sugar, eggs, honey and spices.
OMANI COFFEE - served in "fanageen", little coffee cups, from a "midlah" or coffee thermos (like shown above)

Ingredients:

4 cups of water
1/3 cup of freshly ground coffee
4 rounded Tablespoons of ground cardamom
4 whole cloves

Preparing the Beans: We buy the coffee beans "green" or raw, usually choosing the best available beans from Yemen or Brazil. Then we roast the beans in a thick skillet or pan over medium to medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until they are a dark brown all over.

Making the coffee: To boiling water, add the cardamom and ground coffee. Bring to boil again and then reduce the heat. Continue boiling for 3-4 minutes. Remove from the stove and cover the pot. Allow to sit for another 3-4 minutes. Put the whole cloves in the coffee thermos. Strain the hot coffee into the coffee thermos. Allow to sit for ten minutes before serving. Avoid shaking the thermos, as some coffee grains and the cloves will settle to the bottom and you do not want to pour these grains into the coffee cups.

VARIATION: Add 3 Tablespoons of rose water or a large pinch of saffron threads to the coffee thermos.

hello, i forgot to provide the sources:


for both pictures:

OMAN (www.omannet.com)

An Omani Kitchen (http://members.tripod.com/oum_abdulaziz/kitchen.htm)

Omani food and drinks? ! I think you people have to really accept the fact that there is not such a thing. Omani food is just a mix of Indian/African food. The coffee is not unique to the Omanis only but rather to the whole Arabian Peninsula. Even the Omani traditional costume is similar to the Indian one. Very unfortunate!

Omani food and drinks? ! I think you people have to really accept the fact that there is not such a thing. Omani food is just a mix of Indian/African food. The coffee is not unique to the Omanis only but rather to the whole Arabian Peninsula. Even the Omani traditional costume is similar to the Indian one. Very unfortunate!


Sallam Mr. FAAAATY:)

First of all, no one had mentioned any thing about the origion of any food or drink, to make you come in here and attack the thread with no reasons behind it!


I dont think that in my post i had only closed the orgion to be an original omani food and not mixed with any other origions====> there is no statment in this thread neither in any other thread posted in the forum as far as i know or even read.<=====:)


So your attacking is not valid to me as no evidance has be revealed to prove your attacking........


No one is denying that Omani food are not a typical omani orgion since the big turnover of oman when they decided to migrate and rule other places outside the Arabic peninsula, and inter-marriage with other blood that resultant in mixing with them not in marriage but rather in food, culture, life style and tradition, yet not to forget the language.........

If the origion of food/drinks is not omani, would that harm any one who is omani or non omani?

Aren't most of the omani people eat the same thing every where around oman?

I dont see any problem in presenting the food/drinks that people consume in omani and by the omanis and non omanis!


So if you have any usueful information that you need to provide us in here and share it with us, that would be a great help and assistant from you, and i would thank you in advance about it:)

I would prefer not to post in this thread if your attention will be just to attack in and divert the thread from what it was aiming to a different direction![if it was the case you will be better off opening another thread soemwhere else].


Yet i am still omani and i eat omani food;) :3mani: :flag: :afro:

hmmm iv got a nice dish ..and fat man im sure its Omani and not mixture its called

KAMI: which is cooked Laban with ghee (omani saman)
and i think u eat it with Tmir(dates)
it tastes really good

and sola ill try to post the pic next time inshalah if i rememberd

What makes you think it is an attack? reality can be too spicy sometimes

Sallam,

Adding more information to this thread, yet i dont have any picture to accompany them....

But please people if you have any pictures related to any of the below food , could please try to post them in here!

THANK.

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More substantial meals often have rice as the main ingredient, together with cooked meats. The main daily meal is usually eaten at midday, while the evening meal is lighter. Maqbous is a rice dish, tinged yellow with saffron and cooked over a spicy red or white meat. .


Aursia is a festival meal, served during celebrations, which consists of mashed rice flavoured with spices.

Another popular festival meal is shuwa, which is meat cooked very slowly (sometimes for up to two days) in an underground clay oven. The meat becomes extremely tender and it is impregnated with spices and herbs before cooking to give it a very distinct taste.


:)

BOKO BOKO / HAREES (WHEAT PASTE FOOD)


3 teacups of whole or half ground wheat
3 chicken breast
3 pairs of chicken gizzards
2 onions 1 big (grated/cut into tiny pieces) and one small (sliced and shredded)
3 tablespoons turmeric paste/puree
5 tablespoons sugar
5 cups water
6 heaped teaspoons of ghee
2 teaspoons salt



Soak wheat and leave wheat in water for 3 hours. Boil wheat, chicken breast and big (grated) onion in 3 cups of water. Add 1 tea spoon of salt and keep cooking on low fire. On another side of the cooker make sweet turmeric sauce. Cut chicken gizzards into small pieces and boil with 3 spoons of turmeric paste/puree in ½ cup of water, add a pinch of salt and 3 table spoons of sugar. Leave the sauce to cool. Once wheat is thoroughly cooked, take out the chicken breast, they should also be well cooked by now to the point that they almost start to shred when you just touch them. Cut chicken breast into small pieces and shred well. Put the chicken back into the bowl of wheat and start to stir. By now the wheat you are cooking should have started turning into a thick paste. Add 2 to 3 spoons of ghee and keep stirring until the shredded chicken is evenly distributed. The heaviness or thickness of wheat paste should almost feel like dough when kneaded and ready for baking. If the paste is too hard add a little water. Once ready, take off from fire and cover the wheat paste. On one side of cooker, take a small frying pen and fry the small (shredded) onion in 3 to 4 spoons of ghee. Keep stirring until onions turn red and crispy.

Serving: The turmeric sauce with pieces of chicken gizzards is served in one small bowl. Deep fried onions with all the ghee are also poured into another bowl and put on the table (allow a few minutes to cool but not solidify) Boko boko is served while still warm (not hot, you could end up badly burnt). One may choose to either eat it with the fried onions (where by one also adds the ghee that is with the onions) or one may choose to eat boko boko with the turmeric sauce.

:) :3mani: NOW IM HUNGRY

hmmm iv got a nice dish ..and fat man im sure its Omani and not mixture its called

KAMI: which is cooked Laban with ghee (omani saman)
and i think u eat it with Tmir(dates)
it tastes really good

and sola ill try to post the pic next time inshalah if i rememberd

sallam dear,

thank you for ur reply.
i will be awaiting your picture and your steps/proccess of how to make this dish!

:)

BOKO BOKO / HAREES (WHEAT PASTE FOOD)


3 teacups of whole or half ground wheat
3 chicken breast
3 pairs of chicken gizzards
2 onions 1 big (grated/cut into tiny pieces) and one small (sliced and shredded)
3 tablespoons turmeric paste/puree
5 tablespoons sugar
5 cups water
6 heaped teaspoons of ghee
2 teaspoons salt



Soak wheat and leave wheat in water for 3 hours. Boil wheat, chicken breast and big (grated) onion in 3 cups of water. Add 1 tea spoon of salt and keep cooking on low fire. On another side of the cooker make sweet turmeric sauce. Cut chicken gizzards into small pieces and boil with 3 spoons of turmeric paste/puree in ½ cup of water, add a pinch of salt and 3 table spoons of sugar. Leave the sauce to cool. Once wheat is thoroughly cooked, take out the chicken breast, they should also be well cooked by now to the point that they almost start to shred when you just touch them. Cut chicken breast into small pieces and shred well. Put the chicken back into the bowl of wheat and start to stir. By now the wheat you are cooking should have started turning into a thick paste. Add 2 to 3 spoons of ghee and keep stirring until the shredded chicken is evenly distributed. The heaviness or thickness of wheat paste should almost feel like dough when kneaded and ready for baking. If the paste is too hard add a little water. Once ready, take off from fire and cover the wheat paste. On one side of cooker, take a small frying pen and fry the small (shredded) onion in 3 to 4 spoons of ghee. Keep stirring until onions turn red and crispy.

Serving: The turmeric sauce with pieces of chicken gizzards is served in one small bowl. Deep fried onions with all the ghee are also poured into another bowl and put on the table (allow a few minutes to cool but not solidify) Boko boko is served while still warm (not hot, you could end up badly burnt). One may choose to either eat it with the fried onions (where by one also adds the ghee that is with the onions) or one may choose to eat boko boko with the turmeric sauce.

:) :3mani: NOW IM HUNGRY


Sallam cousin,

thank you alot for this reply:)

You are making me hungry now :help: #

but i really appreciate your assistant in here:)

I wish if you could provide a picture.....why dont you ask aunti to cook it soon for you to capture a picture:D :hehe:

dont forget to send us a parcel;)

hello,

i am still awaiting participations from others who are really into sharing about their traditional food and drink........ :think:

hehehehhehehe illl be heading home on the 6th of june ..and im goin to have alot of fun eating and eating and eating ........:)

hehehehhehehe illl be heading home on the 6th of june ..and im goin to have alot of fun eating and eating and eating ........:)


sallam cousin,

7athik;)

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any way that means i wil be expecting a picture from you soon of foods that you will be eating there and information related to them;):p

Solafa sorry wallah i couldnt get u the pic we didnt go albalad yet, and i dont think we'll go till school examas end..but i think i know the steps of how to make it:

just put Laban on fire till it looks thick and when u c water coming out of it then its ready, so carefully take out the Kami (laban that u boild) and throw that water away, after that pure some ghee on top of the Kami and thats it as easy as 1 2 3;), every1 can try it i advice u to use Laban Al-Marai and u can find Omani Ghee in all supermarkets:)

Omani food, one of the best I love to have. Its amazing taste and its amazing way of cooking... Well my friends, our food must have come from Indo-African-Persian origine, but I'm sure Omani food have their own taste. I see the Makboos or Machboos, Baplo or the Vataso the lemon curry, and all that really amazing things to have... In my house we are more into the Indian food, but I think Omani food have such a taste that no one else would create. All the food types in the world, whether chinese or Indian or European, depending on people they would love them.

I like the Halwa a lot, dates and coffee even more, I didn't have such food most of the time, but when I take them it gives some sort of strange flavor, kind of never experienced before. I see most of my Australian Greek friends liked our Omani coffee, and the Mushkak... while in Melbourne I used to get together with friends and other Omani friends used to make so many things, and most of our western friends liked our food and plus our way of sitting and the hospitality.... Then it should be something that amazes not only me, but as well as many other people around the world... except for some hardstick gugs!

Solafa sorry wallah i couldnt get u the pic we didnt go albalad yet, and i dont think we'll go till school examas end..but i think i know the steps of how to make it:

just put Laban on fire till it looks thick and when u c water coming out of it then its ready, so carefully take out the Kami (laban that u boild) and throw that water away, after that pure some ghee on top of the Kami and thats it as easy as 1 2 3;), every1 can try it i advice u to use Laban Al-Marai and u can find Omani Ghee in all supermarkets:)


hala,

no worries dear, when ever u get the chance just added in here please.:)

Omani food, one of the best I love to have. Its amazing taste and its amazing way of cooking... Well my friends, our food must have come from Indo-African-Persian origine, but I'm sure Omani food have their own taste. I see the Makboos or Machboos, Baplo or the Vataso the lemon curry, and all that really amazing things to have... In my house we are more into the Indian food, but I think Omani food have such a taste that no one else would create. All the food types in the world, whether chinese or Indian or European, depending on people they would love them.

I like the Halwa a lot, dates and coffee even more, I didn't have such food most of the time, but when I take them it gives some sort of strange flavor, kind of never experienced before. I see most of my Australian Greek friends liked our Omani coffee, and the Mushkak... while in Melbourne I used to get together with friends and other Omani friends used to make so many things, and most of our western friends liked our food and plus our way of sitting and the hospitality.... Then it should be something that amazes not only me, but as well as many other people around the world... except for some hardstick gugs!


Hello Prince,

Thank you for complimenting Omani food, at least you appreciate it, unlike others. :think:


But its true that the westerns tend to love our food for it's differnet flavour and taste that our food has, and it's uniqe:)


Have you got any dish that you would want to add in here, please:)

Hello,


Any one else would like to add an Omani dish in here?


i will be thank full for those who would share their dish with us in here. :) :angel:

I dont have anything to add , but my fave omani dish will have to be Harees. its just.. amazing.

Tell me about it Nabhan!! I just love Hareees!!

thats not true mr fat the omani QAHWA is diffferently made from the qatari one

Some info:~ I once asked my aunt why they call harees boko boko... and she said it's also called boko boko, because it makes a bak bak sound while being cooked. :)

I like harees too...I've never had the sweet turmeric sauce though.

Kathchori with Chatni is my Fav!!... anytime and anywhere.. morning and night! :love:

I will try to post a picture for those from outside Oman.. mainly it is potato balls! yummy potato balls and the Chatni is some combination of coconut and stuff :p.. it is a dip for the Potato balls


i know this is an old thread! i was googling and found it out... needs to be filled though! omani food is more than Halwa and Harees ;)