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What to eat in Bahrain

The 10 best dishes in Bahrain

Gulf pearl-diver cooking: fish, rice and saffron sweets.

1

Machboos

Eaten all over Bahrain

Spiced rice with chicken, lamb or kingfish, the national dish.

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Muhammar

Eaten all over Bahrain

Sweet rice cooked with date syrup and cardamom, served with fried fish.

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3

Halwa Bahraini

Best: Muharraq

A glossy saffron and rosewater jelly sweet stirred for hours in copper pots.

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4

Harees

Best: Everywhere in Ramadan

Wheat and meat porridge with ghee.

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5

Balaleet

Eaten all over Bahrain

Saffron vermicelli and omelet for breakfast.

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6

Samboosa

Best: Everywhere in Ramadan

Thin fried triangles of cheese, meat or vegetables.

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Gabout

Eaten all over Bahrain

Dumplings stuffed with meat in a tomato stew.

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8

Mahyawa

Eaten all over Bahrain

Fermented fish sauce smeared on hot flatbread.

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Chebab

Eaten all over Bahrain

Cardamom and saffron pancakes with date syrup.

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10

Luqaimat

Eaten all over Bahrain

Crisp fried dough with date syrup.

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Photos: each dish's lead photo on its Wikipedia article (license and author on Wikimedia Commons); "a photo like it" is a food photo of the same kind, not that dish. Cook it opens a recipe in Chef Amazing, or Chef writes one for you. Picked by Chef Amazing, November 2026.