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Dish
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Description
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Pita Bread
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This unleavened bread is the most important food in the emirate's people diet utilized in many dishes. Naan (the Iranian bread) is also very popular and Lavash (a thin-square shaped with slight elasticity) is its most famous variation.
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Ghuzi
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Or Khuzi. It is a traditional Bedouin plate. Stuffed whole roast lamb on a bed of spiced rice, habitually combined with nuts.
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Mehalabiya
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Or Mahalabiya. It is a pudding sprinkled with pistachios and sometimes rosewater.
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Matchbous
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Or Makbus. It is a favorite in the emirates and consists on a casserole of meat, habitually spiced lamb, or fish with rice.
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Ful Medames
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Egyptian breakfast. A bean dish in a tomato sauce on which is sprinkled chopped onion, egg and other condiments, served with yoghurt and pita bread.
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Dubai's seafood
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Includes hamur (grouper), chanad (mackerel) and beyah (mullet) among others, that are commonly cooked with charcoal grilled.
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Hareis
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A tasty delicacy of slow-cooked wheat and tender lamb.
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Esh Asaraya
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A sweet type of cheesecake with a cream covering.
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Biryani
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Meat or fish prepared with Indian-style spiced rice.
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Shurba Addis
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A popular lentil soup.
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Fattayer
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Hot fried bread stuffed with mild cheese, spinach and onions.
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