Qatari cuisine with cardamom./ served with dates. "karak ", also known as "tea with milk" or "chai milk", is a bright orange mixture with cardamom, saffron, and sugar. It's tea simmered with a mixture of spices along with some evaporated milk. A refreshing drink flavoured with mint and lemon. It is not originally Qatari but it is now a staple drink in the area. A dip made from tahini (a sesame paste) and chickpeas. A paste made from eggplant, garlic, and tahini. A type of hummus made without tahini. Bread and rice pudding. Sweet gelatin pudding spiced with saffron and cardamom. The
Tahini cookie Tahini cookie Tahini cookie is a cookie made of tahini, flour, sugar and butter and usually topped with almonds or pine nuts. The traditional way to prepare tahini cookies is to combine flour, sugar and butter until it creates a crumbly mixture before adding in the raw tahini. Balls of dough are then shaped into round, flat cookies, oftentimes with almonds or pine nuts pressed into them. The baked cookie resembles a shortbread. In Turkey, this pastry is called tahin kurabiyesi, which contains rose water, orange blossom water and olive oil in addition to the tahini and aforementioned ingredients. They