How to pronounce Fahsa

Fahsa is written فحسة where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈfaħsa/. In plain English letters that is FAH-sa, 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 Fahsa?

Fahsa is a main dish of Yemen. Where it comes from: Sanaa. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are lamb. It tastes savory, spicy and rich.

Where Fahsa comes from

Fahsa is one of 16 signature dishes of Yemen on this map. See all dishes from Sanaa.

• 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.

• Shafut شفوت · Main dish · Northern Yemen

  Shafut, also spelled shafoot or shafuta, is a cold Yemeni dish of lahoh, a spongy sourdough flatbread, or of shredded bread, soaked in a mixture of haqeen, a traditional buttermilk, and yoghurt with herbs, sahawiq hot sauce and leek.

• Mandi مندي · Rice dish · Hadhramaut

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

• 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.

• Qishr قشر · Drink · Yemen

  Qishr is a traditional Yemeni hot drink made from the dried husks of the coffee cherry, the outer shell of the fruit of the coffee plant, spiced with ginger and sometimes cinnamon.

Food of Yemen

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