How to pronounce Duqqa

Duqqa is written دقة where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈdæʔʔæ/. In plain English letters that is DAH-a, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Duqqa?

Duqqa is a snack of Egypt. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are nuts & seeds and wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Duqqa comes from

Duqqa is one of 24 signature dishes of Egypt on this map.

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  Ful medames is fava beans cooked very slowly, traditionally buried overnight in the embers of the public bath furnaces in big copper pots, then mashed lightly with olive oil, cumin, lemon and garlic.

• Ta'ameya طعمية · Street food · Egypt

  Ta'ameya is what most Egyptians call falafel, the deep-fried fritter that English sources describe as being of Egyptian origin before it became a fixture of Middle Eastern and especially Levantine cooking.

• Hawawshi حواوشي · Street food · Egypt

  Hawawshi is a traditional Egyptian dish of flatbread stuffed with minced meat spiced with onions, pepper, parsley and sometimes chillies.

• Om Ali أم علي · Dessert · Egypt

  Om Ali, Ali's mother, is a traditional Egyptian dessert often described as the national dessert of Egypt.

• Kahk كحك · Dessert · Egypt

  Kahk, or kahk el-eid, is a sweet shortbread biscuit covered in powdered sugar that Egyptians make above all for Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, and also for Christmas and Easter.

• Halawet el-mulid حلاوة المولد · Dessert · Egypt

  Halawet el-mulid are the sweets of the Prophet's birthday, a family of confections that Arabic sources say began in Egypt for the celebration of al-Mawlid an-Nabawi.

Food of Egypt

Dishes like Duqqa in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Duqqa:

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  Lomnické suchary are sweet rusks named after their home town, Lomnice nad Popelkou in north-eastern Bohemia.

• Antwerp hands Antwerpse handjes · Snack · Antwerp, Belgium

  Antwerpse handjes are butter biscuits, scattered with flaked almonds, in the shape of a hand, a regional product of Antwerp.

• Fryske dúmkes · Snack · Friesland, Netherlands

  Fryske dúmkes are small Frisian biscuits, each about the size of a thumb, which is what the name means.