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Saloona

Name: Saloona
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Oman
Ingredients: 2 Chicken Thigh; 2 Potato; 1 Carrot; 1 Zucchini; 1 Onion; 2 Tomato; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 2 cloves Garlic; 2 tsp Kabsa spice mix; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1/2 Lemon; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp Salt; 600ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Chicken and vegetables stewed with spices and tomato — an everyday Omani home stew.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Saloona is a spiced stew eaten widely across the Gulf. In Omani homes, chicken, lamb, or fish is stewed with vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, and zucchini in tomato and dried lime. Eaten with rice or rukhal, it's an everyday staple.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunch in an Omani home, vegetable-packed tomato stew is ladled from a big pot over rice as the family sits on the floor around it.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chicken Thigh 2
Potato 2
Carrot 1
Zucchini 1
Onion 1
Tomato 2
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Garlic 2 cloves
Kabsa spice mix 2 tsp
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Lemon 1/2
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 600ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Heat oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion and garlic.
Add the bite-size chicken and brown, then add the spices and tomato paste and fry.
Add the diced tomato, water, a slit lemon, and salt and simmer 20 minutes.
Add the potatoes, carrots, and zucchini and simmer 20 minutes until tender.
Serve with rice or bread.

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