Kabsa — chicken or meat served on a bed of steaming rice and redolent of exotic spices — is a national dish of Saudi Arabia.
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Kabsa, or Machboos
Baharat
(Middle Eastern spice blend)
Baharat is a flavorful spice blend used to season dishes throughout a crescent-shaped region of the Middle East stretching from Lebanon through Iraq and on to the Yemeni coast.
Zaatar
(Middle Eastern spice blend)
Homemade spice mixtures have flavored the food of the Middle East for millenia. Foremost among these is the blend called zaatar, a mix of local herbs, sumac berries and sesame seeds.