How to pronounce Masoob

Masoob is written معصوب where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /maʕˈsˤuːb/. In plain English letters that is ma-SOOB, 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 Masoob?

Masoob is a dessert of Yemen. Where it comes from: Hadhramaut. People usually eat it for breakfast. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and dairy & cheese. It tastes sweet and rich.

Where Masoob comes from

Masoob 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.

• Bakhamri باخمري · Snack · Hadhramaut

  Bakhamri is a Hadhrami fried bread from eastern Yemen.

• 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

Dishes like Masoob in other countries

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• Lazzaqiyat لزاقيات · Dessert · Jordan

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• Om Ali أم علي · Dessert · Egypt

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