Large and generous meals, loads of flavour and dishes pregnant with spices – this is what Omani cuisine essentially stands for. Rice is the hero of these meals while meats follow a close second, chicken, fish and mutton being the most sought after meats here.
The main meal of the day being the midday meal, it is a copious one while the evening meal is much lighter. Of all the rice dishes, Maqbous is a popular dish, a fragrant saffron rice cooked with a spicy red or a white meat. Festive time require specially prepared dishes and this is why dishes such as Aursia, a mashed rice loaded with spices and Shuwa, a meat dish slow-cooked in an underground oven is popular during this time. Shuwa is a speciality of the Omanis and is specially flavoursome as the meat is marinated and allowed to cook sometimes up to two days, allowing the meat to become extremely tender and to absorb all the flavours and infuse the herbs within it, giving it a very distinct taste.
Served alongside meals is laban, an all time favourite salty buttermilk while flavoured yogurt drinks, made vibrant with cardamom and pistachios are also a welcome accompaniments. Rukhal bread is a thin round break baked over a fire mad of palm leaves, crumbled over curries during and had with Omani honey for breakfast.
Fish is also a popular ingredient in the Omani cuisine, kingfish being perhaps the most popular of them all. A popular dish involving the kingfish would be Mashuai, a spit-roasted whole kingfish served with lemon rice exploding with little bouts of flavour at every mouthful.
Well known for their sense of hospitality, you are sure to be invited in for a little snack and a drink if you are walking down an Omani neighbourhood. Kahwa, an interesting coffee drink, strong and bitter, flavoured with cardamom often accompanied by Lokhemats, deep fried golden balls of flour served in a flavoured sugar syrup is a popular form of refreshment offered at these households. Dates is a favourite of Omani people and halwa, a gelatinous sweet made with sugar, eggs and spices and often, rosewater is also amongst the most popular snacks of the Omani.
Although laden with spices and bearing resemblance to Asian cuisine in so many ways, Omani cuisine is not hot as opposed to its counterparts. The Al Wadi Hotel Sohar would be an ideal Oman hotel to experience these dishes which is preferred by many amongst other Oman hotels, as it would allow its guests a perfect culinary experience on top of the many comforts it offers its discerning guests.
The main meal of the day being the midday meal, it is a copious one while the evening meal is much lighter. Of all the rice dishes, Maqbous is a popular dish, a fragrant saffron rice cooked with a spicy red or a white meat. Festive time require specially prepared dishes and this is why dishes such as Aursia, a mashed rice loaded with spices and Shuwa, a meat dish slow-cooked in an underground oven is popular during this time. Shuwa is a speciality of the Omanis and is specially flavoursome as the meat is marinated and allowed to cook sometimes up to two days, allowing the meat to become extremely tender and to absorb all the flavours and infuse the herbs within it, giving it a very distinct taste.
Served alongside meals is laban, an all time favourite salty buttermilk while flavoured yogurt drinks, made vibrant with cardamom and pistachios are also a welcome accompaniments. Rukhal bread is a thin round break baked over a fire mad of palm leaves, crumbled over curries during and had with Omani honey for breakfast.
Fish is also a popular ingredient in the Omani cuisine, kingfish being perhaps the most popular of them all. A popular dish involving the kingfish would be Mashuai, a spit-roasted whole kingfish served with lemon rice exploding with little bouts of flavour at every mouthful.
Well known for their sense of hospitality, you are sure to be invited in for a little snack and a drink if you are walking down an Omani neighbourhood. Kahwa, an interesting coffee drink, strong and bitter, flavoured with cardamom often accompanied by Lokhemats, deep fried golden balls of flour served in a flavoured sugar syrup is a popular form of refreshment offered at these households. Dates is a favourite of Omani people and halwa, a gelatinous sweet made with sugar, eggs and spices and often, rosewater is also amongst the most popular snacks of the Omani.
Although laden with spices and bearing resemblance to Asian cuisine in so many ways, Omani cuisine is not hot as opposed to its counterparts. The Al Wadi Hotel Sohar would be an ideal Oman hotel to experience these dishes which is preferred by many amongst other Oman hotels, as it would allow its guests a perfect culinary experience on top of the many comforts it offers its discerning guests.
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