How to pronounce Quzi

Quzi is written قوزي where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈquːzi/. In plain English letters that is KOO-zee, 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 Quzi?

Quzi is a rice dish of Iraq. Where it comes from: All Iraq. People usually eat it on festive days and at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are lamb, rice and nuts & seeds. It tastes rich and savory.

Where Quzi comes from

Quzi is one of 14 signature dishes of Iraq on this map.

• Kleicha كليجة · Dessert · All Iraq

  Kleicha are small cookies of a dough flavoured with cardamom, filled with dates, walnuts or sweet coconut, and baked.

• Samoon صمون · Bread & pastry · All Iraq

  Samoon is a yeast bread eaten mainly in Iraq, where it is one of the most widespread breads alongside the flat khubz.

• Kahi كاهي · Dessert · All Iraq

  Kahi is an Iraqi breakfast pastry made from layers of thin, flaky filo-like dough.

• Makhlama مخلمة · Main dish · All Iraq

  Makhlama is an Iraqi dish of eggs, minced meat and tomatoes, eaten mostly for breakfast or supper.

• Tashreeb تشريب · Soup & stew · All Iraq

  Tashreeb is an Iraqi dish of bread soaked in broth.

• Masgouf مسكوف · Main dish · Baghdad, along the Tigris

  Masgouf is a carp, usually from the Tigris or the Euphrates, split open, salted and seasoned, and grilled upright on stakes facing a fire of apricot or tamarisk wood, then laid flat on the embers at the end.

Food of Iraq

Dishes like Quzi in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Quzi:

• Mansaf منسف · Rice dish · Amman and Karak, Jordan

  Mansaf is lamb cooked in jameed, a sauce made from dried, salted sheep's or goat's yogurt, served on a large tray over thin shrak bread and a mound of rice, scattered with toasted almonds and pine nuts.

• Perde pilavı · Rice dish · Siirt, Türkiye

  Perde pilavı, "curtain pilaf", is a pilaf of rice, chicken, almonds and currants, wrapped in a thin pastry shell and baked into a dome.

• Mathlutha مثلوثة · Rice dish · Najd, Saudi Arabia

  Mathlutha, also called al-badiya, is a festive platter of Najd in central Saudi Arabia whose name refers to its three parts.

• Plov palov · Rice dish · Tashkent and Samarkand, Uzbekistan

  Plov, osh in Uzbek, is rice cooked in a large cast-iron kazan with lamb or beef, carrots cut into long matchsticks, onions, garlic, chickpeas, raisins or quince, and cumin, in a generous amount of fat.