🇮🇶Iraqi food
Iraqi cuisine is built on rice, bread, lamb, chicken and legumes, with spices such as cardamom, cumin and dried lime. Well-known dishes include masgouf (grilled fish), dolma, kubba and quzi (lamb with rice).
22dishes
206average kcal per 100 g
32%vegetarian
Lightest dishes
Most filling dishes
Highest in protein
💡Tip
Many dishes are served with both rice and bread, and fried kubba is energy-dense; grilled fish or meat with salad is usually lighter.
All 22 dishes
🫘 Bagilla (warm fava beans)🍛 Iraqi Biryani🍆 Iraqi Dolma🍢 Iraqi Kebab🍲 Iraqi Lentil Soup (Shorbat Adas)🍖 Iraqi Quzi🍢 Iraqi Tikka (Lamb Tikka Kebab)🍲 Iraqi bamia🫓 Iraqi lahm bi ajeen🫘 Iraqi white bean stew (fasolia)🥐 Kahi with geymar🍪 Kleicha🧆 Kubba halab (rice kibbeh)🥟 Kubba mosul🍬 Mann al-Sama🐟 Masgouf🍲 Pacha🍲 Qeema Najafi🍞 Samoon (Iraqi bread)🥪 Samoon with amba and egg🍗 Tanoor chicken (dajaj tanoor)🍆 Tepsi Baytinijan
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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. How we count →