Kuwaiti cuisine is very important to the culture of Kuwait. The national dish

National dish

A national dish is a dish, food or a drink that is considered to represent a particular country, nation or region.A dish can become a national dish for a variety of reasons. It can be the national dish because it is a staple daily food for the majority of the population. It can also be the national...

 of Kuwait known as machete

Machete

The machete is a large cleaver-like cutting tool. The blade is typically long and usually under thick. In the English language, an equivalent term is matchet, though it is less commonly known...

  consists mainly of mutton or chicken

Chicken

The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird...

 placed over or mixed in a large mass of well-cooked and prepared rice

Rice

Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...

. Food is almost always prepared and served in large amounts, and it is extremely common for household

Household

The household is "the basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; [the household] "may or may not be synonymous with family"....

s to invite guests over to share meals.
Kuwaiti cuisine is an infusion of Indian, Persian, Mediterranean, and Najdi (the center of the Arabian peninsula) cuisine.

Dishes

• Qouzi, a Kuwait national dish consisting of a roasted lamb stuffed with rice, chicken, eggs, and other ingredients.))))
• Machbūs, a dish made with mutton or chicken accompanied over fragrant rice that been cooked in chicken/mutton well spiced broth.
• Laban Buttermilk.
• Gers Ogaily, a traditional cake made with eggs, flour, sugar, cardamom, and saffron. Traditionally served with tea.
• Harees
  Harees
  Harees or harissa is a Middle Eastern dish of boiled, cracked, or coarsely-ground wheat and meat or chicken. Its consistency varies between a porridge and a dumpling.-Preparation:...
  
  , wheat cooked with meat then mashed ,usually topped with cinnamon sugar.
• Jireesh (Yireesh), a mash of cooked spelt with chicken or lamb ,tomatoes and some spices.
• Gabout (Gabboot), stuffed flour dumplings in a thick meat stew.
• Biryani
  Biryani
  Biryani, biriani, or beriani is a set of rice-based foods made with spices, rice and meat, fish, eggs or vegetables. The name is derived from the Persian word beryā which means "fried" or "roasted"....
  
   heavily seasoned rice cooked with chicken or lamb. Originally an Indian dish. Very common in Kuwait.
• Mutabbaq samak fish served over rice , rice is cooked in well spiced fish stock.
• Balaleet Sweet saffron noodles served with savory omelet on top.
• Ghuraiba Brittle cookies usually served with Arabic Coffee.
• Mumawwash Rice cooked with black lentils and topped with dry shrimp.
• Zalabia Fried dough soaked in syrup (sugar, lemon, and saffron).
• Lugaimat Fried yeast dumplings soaked in saffron syrup (sugar, lemon, and saffron).