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Margoog

Name: Margoog
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Qatar
Ingredients: 200g All-purpose flour; 100ml (for the dough) + 1L Water; 400g Chicken Thigh; 1 Potato; 1 Zucchini; 150g Pumpkin; 1 Onion; 2 tbsp Tomato paste; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 1/2 Lime; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 1/2 tsp Salt

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin sheets of dough cooked in a meat and vegetable stew — Qatari winter home cooking.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Margoog is a traditional dish of Qatar, Kuwait, and the Gulf: wheat dough is rolled thin, torn by hand, and added to a broth of meat and vegetables stewed with tomato and spices. The dough soaks up the broth and turns chewy, with a texture like Japanese dumplings in soup. It's loved in the cold season.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a winter night in Qatar, thin dough cooks with meat and vegetable broth in a pot as steam and the scent of spices rise.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 200g
Water 100ml (for the dough) + 1L
Chicken Thigh 400g
Potato 1
Zucchini 1
Pumpkin 150g
Onion 1
Tomato paste 2 tbsp
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Lime 1/2
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, 100ml water, and a little salt and rest 30 minutes.
Fry the oil, onion, and chicken in a pot, add the tomato paste, spices, lime, 1L water, and salt, and simmer 20 minutes.
Add the potatoes, pumpkin, and zucchini cut large and simmer 10 minutes.
Roll the dough very thin, tear by hand into bite-size pieces, and add to the pot.
Simmer 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

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