The canonical version and where to order it.
Khameer is the Emirati date bread: a yeasted, slightly sweet round enriched with milk and dates, dimpled with nigella seed and split open while hot for cheese and honey.
Khameer takes its name from the Arabic for leaven, and it is the everyday bread of the Emirati household as opposed to the paper thin regag of the street. The dough carries powdered milk, sugar and sometimes mashed dates, which is why it stays soft for a day and browns fast. Traditionally it baked in a tandoor sunk into the ground or on a domed griddle, and the black nigella seeds pressed into the top are both decoration and digestive. In Dubai it arrives on every Emirati breakfast tray next to chebab and balaleet, and the standard order is to split one, fill it with cream cheese and pour over date syrup.
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Arabian Tea House has poured karak chai and served Emirati breakfasts since 1997 in a courtyard house built in the early 1920s in Al Fahidi, Dubai.
TipAsk for a courtyard table under the big tree; the Emirati breakfast tray comes with khameer and chebab baked in the house tanoor.
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