How to pronounce Kleja

Kleja is written كليجا where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kliːˈdʒa/. In plain English letters that is klee-JAH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Kleja?

Kleja is a dessert of Saudi Arabia. Where it comes from: Qassim. People usually eat it at teatime and on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Kleja comes from

Kleja is one of 24 signature dishes of Saudi Arabia on this map.

• Matazeez مطازيز · Main dish · Qassim

  Matazeez is a hearty stew of wheat dough cooked with meat and vegetables, and the Arabic article names Qassim as the region best known for it; in some areas it is called qababit.

• Kabsa كبسة · Rice dish · Najd

  Kabsa is rice cooked with meat, usually chicken, lamb or camel, in a broth seasoned with a mix of spices such as cardamom, cloves, black lime, cinnamon, saffron and bay leaf, with tomatoes and onions.

• Saleeg سليق · Rice dish · Hejaz (Taif and Mecca)

  Saleeg is white rice cooked slowly in chicken or meat broth and then in milk, stirred until it turns soft and creamy, and served on a large round tray with roasted chicken or lamb on top and a pool of melted ghee.

• Mutabbaq مطبق · Street food · Hejaz (Jeddah and Mecca)

  Mutabbaq is thin dough stretched by hand, folded around a filling of minced meat, egg, onion and leek, and fried on a large flat griddle.

• Margoog مرقوق · Main dish · Najd (Riyadh)

  Margoog is a stew of very thin sheets of wheat dough cooked in a meat and vegetable broth, and it is one of the best-known popular dishes of Najd, the central region of Saudi Arabia.

• Qursan القرصان · Bread & pastry · Najd

  Qursan are very thin, large rounds of wheat bread from Najd that are torn and soaked in a meat and vegetable broth.

Food of Saudi Arabia

Dishes like Kleja in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Kleja:

• Kleicha كليجة · Dessert · All Iraq, Iraq

  Kleicha are small cookies of a dough flavoured with cardamom, filled with dates, walnuts or sweet coconut, and baked.

• Lazzaqiyat لزاقيات · Dessert · Jordan

  Lazzaqiyat is a folk sweet of the Levant made from flatbread a little thicker than saj bread, which is soaked straight after baking with Arab clarified butter and honey or sugar.

• Kugel Yerushalmi קוגל ירושלמי · Dessert · Jerusalem, Israel

  Kugel Yerushalmi, Jerusalem kugel, is an Israeli noodle pudding that comes from the old Jewish community of Jerusalem, where it was first made in the 18th century.

• Sohan of Qom سوهان · Dessert · Qom, Iran

  Sohan is a traditional Persian saffron brittle toffee, a kind of halva also called halva-ye Qomi, and the sohan of Qom is the most famous in Iran: the largest amount and the widest range of sohan are made in that city.