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Jordan

Jordan’s food is built around bedouin hospitality cuisine centered on lamb, fermented dried yogurt and communal rice platters. Look for Mansaf (lamb cooked in jameed yogurt over shrak and rice; eaten communally), Maqluba (flipped rice-vegetable-chicken pot, Friday family centerpiece) and Zarb (bedouin lamb and vegetables slow-roasted in underground sand oven). Jordan’s national dish of lamb in jameed sauce over shrak bread; UNESCO inscribed the mansaf banquet tradition in 2022. This atlas has 33 Jordan dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.

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  • Arabic coffee

    Cardamom and saffron coffee served in tiny cups with dates. Ready in 10 min prep and 20 min cooking. 6…

  • Knafeh

    Syrupy cheese pastry with crunchy topping, sold by the slab. Ready in 30 min prep and 35 min cooking. 10…

  • Shawarma

    Stacked marinated meat shaved from a vertical spit into thin bread with garlic sauce. Ready in 30 min plus 12…