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Muhammar

Name: Muhammar
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Arab Emirates
Ingredients: 2 cups Basmati rice; 4 tbsp Date syrup; 2 tbsp Sugar; A pinch Saffron; 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder; 1 tsp Rose water; 30g Butter; A pinch Salt; 500ml Water; 4 fillets White Fish Fillet; A pinch Turmeric

Rice

⏱ 45 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Sweet rice cooked with date syrup, saffron, and cardamom, served with grilled fish — a traditional Gulf dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Muhammar is rice cooked sweet with date syrup or sugar, saffron, cardamom, and rose water, eaten since the Gulf's pearl-diving era. Pairing the sweet rice with salty grilled or fried fish is traditional, and it also appears at Ramadan and celebration tables.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At midday in a seaside Emirati home, crisp grilled fish is laid on a big platter of brown sweet rice as the family serves themselves by hand.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Basmati rice 2 cups
Date syrup 4 tbsp
Sugar 2 tbsp
Saffron A pinch
Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp
Rose water 1 tsp
Butter 30g
Salt A pinch
Water 500ml
White Fish Fillet 4 fillets
Turmeric A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the rice, soak 30 minutes, boil in salted water for 7 minutes, and drain.
Dissolve the date syrup, sugar, saffron, cardamom, and rose water in a little hot water.
Melt butter in a pot, return the rice, drizzle over the syrup, and mix through.
Cover and steam on low for 20 minutes.
Rub the fish with salt and turmeric, grill until crisp, and serve with the rice.

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