How to pronounce Jameed

Jameed is written جميد where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /dʒaˈmiːd/. In plain English letters that is jah-MEED, 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 Jameed?

Jameed is a snack of Jordan. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are dairy & cheese. It tastes sour and savory.

Where Jameed comes from

Jameed is one of 10 signature dishes of Jordan on this map.

• Maqluba مقلوبة · Rice dish · All Jordan

  Maqluba, "upside-down", is a pot of rice, meat, usually chicken or lamb, and fried vegetables such as aubergine, cauliflower and potato, cooked in layers and then turned out onto a large plate in one piece, like a cake.

• Lazzaqiyat لزاقيات · Dessert · Jordan

  Lazzaqiyat is a folk sweet of the Levant made from flatbread a little thicker than saj bread, which is soaked straight after baking with Arab clarified butter and honey or sugar.

• Mansaf منسف · Rice dish · Amman and Karak

  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.

• Galayet bandora قلاية بندورة · Main dish · Aqaba and the south

  Galayet bandora, "pan of tomatoes", is tomatoes fried in olive oil with onion, garlic, hot peppers and salt until soft and thick.

• Zarb زرب · Main dish · Aqaba (Wadi Rum)

  Zarb is meat and vegetables cooked in a pit dug in the ground, which works as an underground oven.

• Rashoof رشوف · Soup & stew · Northern Jordan

  Rashoof, also called madqouqa, is a traditional Jordanian dish especially known in the north and centre of the country and in the Syrian desert.

Food of Jordan

Dishes like Jameed in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Jameed:

• Shanklish شنكليش · Snack · Lebanon

  Shanklish is an aged cheese of cow's or sheep's milk from Levantine cooking.

• Mish مش · Snack · Nile Delta, Egypt

  Mish is a pungent Egyptian cheese made by fermenting salted cheese for months or even years, and Arabic sources call it a staple food of the fellahin of the Egyptian countryside.

• Sulguni სულგუნი · Snack · Samegrelo, Georgia

  Sulguni is a brined Georgian cheese from Samegrelo, called selegini in Mingrelian, and it is also made in Svaneti.

• Handkäs mit Musik · Snack · Southern Hesse, Germany

  Handkäse, "hand cheese", is a small, translucent sour-milk cheese with a pungent smell, named after the old way of shaping it by hand.