Common ingredients for United Arab Emirates

These are common ingredients you may see on packaging and menus in United Arab Emirates. Local words are left unchanged so they stay readable in the original language; translate this page if you want supporting text and English names in your own language.

• بصل (onion)

  Basal

• بطاطس (potato)

  Batatis

• بيض (egg)

  Bayd

• ثوم (garlic)

  Thoom

• جزر (carrot)

  Jazar

• حليب (milk)

  Haleeb

• حليب بودرة (milk powder)

  Haleeb Budra

• دجاج (chicken)

  Dajaj

• روب (yogurt)

  Roob

  Also called 'Zabadi'

• زبدة (butter)

  Zubda

• زعفران (saffron)

  Za'afaran

• زنجبيل (ginger)

  Zanjabeel

• سمن (ghee)

  Samn

  Clarified butter, often aged or spiced

• كركم (turmeric)

  Kurkum

• لحم غنم (lamb)

  Laham Ghanam

• لومي (dried lime)

  Loomi

  Dried black lime

• مرق دجاج (chicken broth)

  Maraq Dajaj

• مرق دجاج (chicken stock)

  Maraq Dajaj

• مرق سمك (fish stock)

  Maraq Samak

• مرق لحم (beef broth)

  Maraq Laham

• مرق لحم ضأن (mutton stock)

  Maraq Laham Da'n

• معجون الروبيان (shrimp paste)

  Ma'joon al-Rubiyan

• مكعبات مرق دجاج (chicken bouillon)

  Muka'abat Maraq Dajaj

• مكعبات مرق لحم (beef bouillon)

  Muka'abat Maraq Laham

• هيل (cardamom)

  Hayl