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Today we will talk about the most popular dishes in jordan that you will hear about even if you spend one day in Jordan.

First let’s talk about the relationship between Jordanians and food because trust me it’s serious, Jordanians LOVE food I don’t know if “love” is the right word to express how Jordanians feel about food but we really love it, whether it’s traditional food or fastfood we LOVE IT ALL.

If you live in Jordan you will notice that fighting about what are we going to eat tomorow is an everday argument between any husband and wife, especially men you know how they say ” the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” well it’s true.

So now we know how we take food very serious here, we can start with the most famous fastfood in Jordan I’m sure you’ve heard of it since it’s very popular, it’s the one and onlyyyyyy SHAWERMAAAAAA

It’s our favorite, I know people who eat it everyday, well it’s very tasty, not very expensive and it’s literally everywhere, Unfortunately, I cannot give you the exact number of shawerma places here but More than you will ever be able to count in one life time, hahaha okey I may be exaggerating but trust me there are a lot.

Even if it’s not a shawerma resturant you can almost find shawerma in the menu of every resturant and cafe in Jordan I’m telling you we really love shawerma and it’s really delecious here, I tried shawerma in other countries and trust me ours are waay more tasty I don’t know why but I think it’s because we like spices a lot.

Now let’s talk about our favorite home dish, if you ever came to Jordan people will definetly make you try the magical MANSAF dish.

This dish contains rice, jameed, meat and some almonds or pine nuts on the top, most Jordanians are obssesed with this dish, you will find this dish in most of our feasts and even in funerals.

But for people who prefer chicken  we have another dish that we really love like MANSAF and it’s called MSAKHAN.

The ingredients are simply chicken, special kind of bread, pine nuts, oil, onions and lastly sumac which is the purple spice in the picture above.

What makes both dishes unique is both are eaten with hands yes even MANSAF of course you can eat it with a spoon but most men especially in gatherings prefer to eat it with their hands you just grab some rice and shape it like a ball and eat it.

And for our last dish we present for you the amazing and famous breakfast FALAFEL.

The main ingredient is dried chickpeas with some herbs and spices, it’s a good choice for vegans.

You can either order them as falafel balls or as sandwiches with some tahini salad in it.

If you decided to eat falafel balls then the best way to enjoy these cuties is to grab hummus with it because come on you can’t eat falafel balls without hummus they make a good combination and I think they were made to be together.

There are a lot of dishes in Jordan but these are the most famous, if you want to know more about food in Jordan please let me know and I will make sure to talk about the desserts too.