How to pronounce Bakhamri

Bakhamri is written باخمري where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /baːˈxamri/. In plain English letters that is bah-KHAM-ree, 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 Bakhamri?

Bakhamri is a snack of Yemen. Where it comes from: Hadhramaut. People usually eat it for breakfast and at teatime. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Bakhamri comes from

Bakhamri is one of 16 signature dishes of Yemen on this map. See all dishes from Hadhramaut.

• Mandi مندي · Rice dish · Hadhramaut

  Mandi is rice and meat, usually lamb or chicken, cooked in a tandoor-like pit in the ground.

• Masoob معصوب · Dessert · Hadhramaut

  Masoob is a sweet dish of over-ripe bananas mashed with ground flatbread and finished with cream, cheese, honey and sometimes dates.

• Saltah سلتة · Main dish · Sanaa

  Saltah is a brown meat stew, maraq, served bubbling in a stone pot, topped with a froth of whipped fenugreek, hulba, and sahawiq, a hot sauce of chillies, tomatoes, garlic and herbs.

• Bint al-sahn بنت الصحن · Dessert · Sanaa

  Bint al-sahn, "daughter of the plate", is a round cake of many thin layers of buttery dough, baked until golden and served warm, drizzled with honey and sprinkled with black seeds.

• Fahsa فحسة · Main dish · Sanaa

  Fahsa is a Yemeni stew of lamb cutlets in lamb broth, finished after cooking with spices and hulbah, a frothy fenugreek dip.

• Hulbah حلبة · Snack · Yemen

  Hulbah, or hilbeh, is a condiment made from ground fenugreek seeds, a traditional Yemeni food that is eaten almost every day in Yemen.

Food of Yemen

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