Tomato-colored stew with vegetables and flat dumpling pieces in a bowl.

Matazeez

Saudi Arabia · Middle East and North Africa

Short description
This hearty stew cooks flat dumplings directly in the broth so they soak up the sauce.
Ingredients
Wheat dough, lamb or beef, tomato, onion, carrots, squash, spices, and dried lime.
Cultural note
It is associated with inland home cooking, especially cool-weather family meals.
Common misconception
The dough pieces are not a garnish; they cook in the stew and become part of its body.

image credit

مطازيز.jpg

creator:
Ali from Riyadh : )
license:
CC BY 2.0
modified:
Cropped, resized, and re-encoded from the Wikimedia Commons source image for Gochizu draft review.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.