# The best Bahraini dishes

Muhammar, machboos, mumawwash and Bahraini halwa: the dishes and sweets of Bahrain.

- 5 votes · 18 items
- Sep 29, 2019 · Mariam Mansour
- https://even.best/en/l/3512/the-best-bahraini-dishes

## Top 18

1. **Machboos** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Meat, chicken or fish over rice cooked in spiced broth.
2. **Mumawwash** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Rice with green lentils, sometimes topped with dried shrimp.
3. **Fi ga'atah** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — White rice cooked over tomato, potato and aubergine.
4. **Mahyawa** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Tangy fish sauce.
5. **Ghuraiba** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Crumbly cardamom cookies served with coffee.
6. **Muhammar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rice sweetened with dates or sugar, served with fried fish.
7. **Masli** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rice cooked in the pot with chicken, meat, fish or shrimp.
8. **Harees** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wheat cooked with meat and mashed, topped with cinnamon sugar.
9. **Jireesh** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cracked spelt with chicken or lamb and tomato.
10. **Quzi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lamb stuffed with rice, meat and eggs.
11. **Al-Mudalal** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Herbed rice with chicken and a special butter.
12. **Biryani** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spiced rice with chicken or lamb.
13. **Malgoum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shawarma in chapati with cheese and fries.
14. **Bahraini halwa** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweet of starch, sugar, nuts, saffron and rose water.
15. **Khanfaroosh** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fried sweet with molasses or milk, served at breakfast.
16. **Gaimat** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fried dough balls in saffron syrup.
17. **Zalabia** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Swirled fried dough soaked in syrup.
18. **Khabeesa** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweet of flour and oil.

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