Jordanian Sweets and Everyday Food

Specialised

KNAFEH NABULSIEH — salty white nabulsi cheese under shredded pastry soaked in syrup, eaten hot in a folded loaf; ⚠ NABLUS by name and Palestinian by origin, and universal in Jordan. WARBAT, layered filo with cream. QATAYEF in Ramadan. HAREESA/nammoura of semolina. MA’AMOUL at Eid. Baklawa. AWAMEH. And the everyday food a Jordanian actually eats: FALAFEL and HUMMUS and fattet hummus for breakfast; FUL; the ZA’ATAR-and-oil manaqish; SHAWARMA; MUSAKHAN; MAQLUBA; MAHSHI; SHISH BARAK; GALAYET BANDORA, tomatoes fried hard with chilli and olive oil, which is the plainest good thing in the kitchen; RASHOOF of lentils and jameed; and MAGLOUBA-adjacent one-pot rice dishes. ⚠ AND THE ONE THAT IS NOT FOOD BUT IS THE POINT: Jordanian TEA, boiled with sage or mint and very sweet, offered constantly, and refusing it takes some doing.