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Madrooba

Name: Madrooba
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Arab Emirates
Ingredients: 300g Salt Cod; 60g All-purpose flour; 1 Onion; 2 Tomato; 2 cloves Garlic; 2 tsp Kabsa spice mix; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1/2 tsp Cumin powder; 30g Butter; 800ml Water; 1/2 Lemon

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Salted fish cooked down with flour and spices until thick — home cooking from Gulf fishing towns.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Madrooba means 'stirred,' a dish born in Gulf fishing villages. Salted fish (maleh) is flaked and simmered with tomato, spices, and flour while being stirred constantly into a paste. It has long been eaten in the cold winter months or when you want to warm up.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a winter morning in a seaside Emirati home, fish and flour cook down thick in a big pot as a mother stirs constantly with a wooden spoon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Salt Cod 300g
All-purpose flour 60g
Onion 1
Tomato 2
Garlic 2 cloves
Kabsa spice mix 2 tsp
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder 1/2 tsp
Butter 30g
Water 800ml
Lemon 1/2

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the salt cod in water for half a day to remove the salt, then flake finely.
Melt butter in a pot and sauté the chopped onion and garlic.
Add the diced tomato and spices and fry, then add the flaked fish and water and simmer 15 minutes.
Dissolve the flour in a little water, add, and simmer on low for 20 minutes, stirring constantly.
When it becomes a thick paste, spoon into bowls and serve with lemon.

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