How to pronounce Hulbah

Hulbah is written حلبة where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈħulba/. In plain English letters that is HUL-ba, 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 Hulbah?

Hulbah is a snack of Yemen. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are vegetables. It tastes savory.

Where Hulbah comes from

Hulbah is one of 16 signature dishes of Yemen on this map.

• 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.

• Sahawiq سحاوق · Snack · Yemen

  Sahawiq is a hot sauce that originated in Yemeni cuisine.

• Malooga ملوجة · Bread & pastry · Yemen

  Malooga, or maluj, is a leavened Yemeni flatbread made with flour, cooking oil, yeast, fenugreek and salt.

• Naqe' al-zabib نقيع الزبيب · Drink · Yemen

  Naqe' al-zabib, raisin infusion, is a cold raisin drink from Yemen.

• Khaliat nahl خلية النحل · Dessert · Yemen

  Khaliat al-nahl, beehive, also called honeycomb bread, is a dessert of small, soft bread rolls filled with cheese and arranged close together so that they form a hexagonal pattern like the cells of a honeycomb.

• 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.

Food of Yemen

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• Lyutenitsa лютеница · Snack · Plovdiv and Thrace, Bulgaria

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