Friday, May 6, 2011

Traditional Food: Kabsa & Traditional Drink: Arabic Coffee

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Traditional Food: Kabsa



I would like to take about our traditional food. In Arabian Gulf countries there are many kinds of delicacies food. Some of them are very famous such like kabsa. Kabsa is rise with  chicken and there are many kind of kabsa because of different spices and different ways to coke it. For example, some people put the chicken to be cocked with rice others cock them Separated. I have my way cocking Kabsa, I like to use white rice and coriander, olive oil, turmeric, black pepper, cinnamon black lemon, latency, onion, tomato and sometimes I like use a tomato sauce. When I finish cocking I like to eat it with cold plain yogurt. Kabsa usually consider as food for lunch, but sometimes people have it as a diner especially in parties, weddings and gatherings.

Maybe it interesting to you to know that we eat it normally by hand from one big plate .


Traditional Drink: Arabic Coffee

Arabic coffee is a general name that refers to the way coffee is prepared in many Arab countries throughout the Middle East. There are two main ways of preparing Arabic coffee. Traditional coffee brewing, more common in Najd and Hijaz which are in the middle and west of Saudi Arabia, is flavor-rich with cardamom, and sometimes other spices like saffron to give it a golden color, cloves, and sometimes cinnamon. Some people add very little evaporated milk to slightly alter its color, however, this is rare. It has a special coffee pot called dallah and the coffee cups are small but with no handle. The portions are very small, covering the bottom of the cup. It is served in houses and in good restaurants by specially clad waiters called gahwaji, and it is almost always accompanied with dates. It is always offered with the compliments of the house and is free. It is also offered at most social events like weddings and funerals.Traditional Arabic coffee in special Arabic coffee method, more common in the Levant, is based on the Turkish coffee brewing method, at times with cardamom added, others plain or qahwah sādah .The trees that produce Arabic coffee found in Syrian areas can measure over three meters in height. The leaves of the Arabic coffee plant are also comparatively large.
.Maybe it interesting to you to know that we drink it normally with many different kind of dates 
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