Queen Rania: 'I just like my children to see Arabic food on the table
22 June, 2020
After Friday prayers, there's one particular dish the children of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania Al Abdullah crave - mansaf.
The Jordanian royal, who has four children, exposed about the importance of teaching families about their local cuisine this week, as she spoke with the team behind a home-grown food app.
Queen Rania met the founder of Bilforon, a good platform that allows home cooks to sell meals online, about Sunday, June 21.
Mohammad Batikhi launched the software in 2016, as a way to help talented chefs release their own organization and reach buyers from their very kitchens.
The platform also started offering grocery delivery providers as Jordan introduced restrictions on activity through the coronavirus pandemic.
"Couldn’t get enough of my dialogue today with the talented cooks dealing with Bilforon - and I can’t wait to try their meals!" Queen Rania stated of the conference on Instagram, as she shared a graphic from the day.
"Hats off to the workforce behind this progressive app making it easy for women to advertise and sell their delightful homemade meals online."
The meeting was conducted with social distancing measures in place, with the Bilforon team wearing face masks and sat metres from the royal.
'The very first thing my kids want when they keep coming back from the mosque is a mansaf'
Queen Rania also shared a number of clips from her dialogue with Bilforon chefs on her Instagram Tales, where she revealed her family's fondness for mansaf.
"Through your time and efforts you're doing a thing that I think is vital - that our children stay linked to the Arabic home, the Jordanian home," she said.
"The very first thing my youngsters want when they keep coming back from the mosque is a mansaf. They got used to it."
The lamb and rice dish is considered one of Jordan's nationwide plates, with the meat cooked in fermented dried yogurt.
"I usually like for my kids to see an Arabic dish on the table," said Queen Rania, mother of Crown Prince Hussein, 25, Princess Iman, 23, Princess Salma, 19, and Prince Hashem, 15.
"In addition, our food is healthy. Whatever we make at home is healthier compared to the junk food that they get."
Bilforon, which caused 30 supermarkets and shops to ensure residents could buy groceries during lockdown procedures, requires cooks to move hygiene and food basic safety tests before they can join the platform.
The app can be used by persons keen to order a home-cooked meal, together with companies or events looking for larger-scale catering.
The platform also shares fresh home-made produce, such as jams, pickles and pasta, and has a lot more than 200 cooks on its roster.
Source: www.thenational.ae
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