Located in the Middle East, a country built on the desert, the UAE is not only a transportation hub for the Middle East, but also a gathering place for the world's dining. More than 80% of the UAE's population comes from nearly 200 countries in the world, bringing with it diets from around the world.
Studies have shown that 39.7% of the UAE's obese population is believed to have a large number of Western fast food chains and junk food entering the country due to the UAE's developed oil industry and rapidly growing wealth, resulting in the country's obesity rate being twice the world average. Let's take a look at the uae family's three meals a day, rich diet are willful, fat to lose weight for gold are not enthusiastic.
1. Breakfast
Emirati families usually eat pancakes for breakfast, and their pancakes are not the same as ours. Locals love to eat fluffy pancakes seasoned with saffron, often with homemade ice cream cheese, sticky syrup or other ingredients.
Emirati family morning tea also loves porridge, where wheat and lamb are cooked, and the meat is cooked for hours under the spices and cinnamon ingredients until the meat absorbs the flavor of spices. This dish is very popular during Ramadan and is a gentle dish for Muslims to awaken their stomachs.
The main food of the Emiratis used to be tortillas, wheat cakes and beans, and poor families mainly ate tortillas. Since the UAE earned a lot of dollars from oil exports, the government has introduced price subsidies for staple foods. The flatbread (fermented cakes) and dough that are sold in the shop are cheaper than flour. Therefore, everyone usually eats flatbread or pasta. Tomato salad, onions mixed with chili peppers, boiled beans, sauce, etc. are served as a side meal, and the meat is mainly beef and mutton.
Uae family breakfasts love coffee, thick black coffee flavored with cardamom, saffron, and cinnamon. A typical welcome drink for families in the UAE. The owner of the house needs to fill up the guest's cup when it is empty, and if you are already full, gently shake the cup from one side to the other to indicate that you have drunk enough coffee.
2. Lunch
Emirati family lunch love to eat traditional Arabic dishes, lunch time, Every household in Dubai has to eat flatbread or rice, Arabs are very skilled in the technology of pilaf by hand, one is not afraid of hot, the other is to quickly tear off a small piece of meat with the finger, the dish is sent to the mouth, the finger is not allowed to touch the mouth. Paired with vegetable salads, fruits, seafood, grilled meats, drinks including coffee, juices, and exquisite desserts after meals, people eat them with their hands all the time.
Dishes include fried pigeons, roasted fish, roasted whole lamb, etc. Roasting a whole lamb is to remove the head and feet of a tender lamb, hollow out the internal organs, stuff it with rice, raisins, almonds, olives, pine nuts and other dried fruits and spices, and then enlarge the fire and roast it. It is characterized by tenderness and aroma and delicious taste. Most of them believe in Islam, so they do not eat pork, and their favorite meat is beef and mutton.
Emirati families also love desserts after lunch, often sweet to the point of sweetness, without which the meal would not be complete. Fried paste balls are the favorite dessert of the locals, and much like the Uae donuts, they are put in the oil like fried dumplings, fried until the outside is crispy and tender, fluffy, and the sweet taste is because there is syrup in it
Kunafa is a famous Arabic dessert. This is a cheese pastry steeped in syrup. Kunafa consists of a thick layer of white cheese topped with crushed vermicelli noodles or chopped wheat, like baklava. Layers of syrup are wrapped in thick cheese, cut with a knife, and the brush can be seen. It is rich in texture and unique in flavor, with crispy dough and nuts in the mouth accompanied by syrup, and finally a cheese-wrapped cake, which is very evocative.
In the UAE, in order to save time, some people generally love to eat hamburgers for lunch, and the local famous one is the camel meat burger.
3. Dinner
Dinners for Emirati families are very plentiful and the traditional Arabic tucket rolls are commonly eaten. Barbecue is the favorite food for dinner, kebabs and sliced grilled meat, using leg of lamb and lean meat on the back, cut into thumb squares, and then add pepper, salt, green onion, ginger, large ingredients and olive oil and other ingredients, and then strung on a brazel about 1 meter long, put into the oven, until the meat becomes yellow and crispy, ready to eat.
The UAE's location follows the Silk and Spice Route, which undoubtedly influences its culinary tastes. The main feature of Emirati cuisine is the use of numerous spices and dried fruits, in addition to the extensive use of herbs such as coriander, mint and thyme. Many traditional dishes include meat, dairy, cereals, wheat and ghee. Popular spices are turmeric, saffron, cardamom, cinnamon, pepper and salt, as well as ingredients of desert plants such as the leaves of the Al Ghaf tree.
Emiratis often hold parties at home for dinner, inviting friends to eat, drink and have fun together, and their one meal is equivalent to the average person's salary for months or even years. In addition to roasting whole lamb, roast meat, roasted vegetables, etc., the most luxurious food is roasted camel, a whole camel roasted with various spices for 5-6 hours, the stomach is stuffed with fruit, with vegetables, yellow rice, nuts, eight or nine people around together, everyone tears camel meat together to eat.
Such a diet naturally fattened the body, so that in order to promote a healthy lifestyle, the Dubai Municipal Government of the United Arab Emirates also launched the "Weight Loss for Gold" campaign, in 30 days for every 1 kg of weight lost can get 1 gram of gold, participants at least 2 kg minus to redeem gold. The top three participants who lost the most weight will also receive a $5400 gold coin. There are too many rich people in the UAE, almost no one in the country to participate, and finally the 27-year-old architect Sheikh won the championship and won the highest prize, 63 grams of gold, he is Pakistani.
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