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Word entry · Arabic (Gulf)
Margoog.
/mar-goog/· n. · Arabic (Gulf)food
"Slow-cooked Emirati stew with thin bread dissolved inside."

Meat (usually chicken or lamb), vegetables — tomato, potato, onion, dried lime — and spices cooked in a broth, with regag-style thin bread folded in near the end to absorb the liquid. It collapses into a stew-porridge somewhere between machboos and harees.

Less internationally famous than machboos, older, more domestic. Less likely to appear on a hotel menu; more likely to be what someone's grandmother actually makes on a Thursday. If someone's grandmother makes it for you, eat it.