Traditional food of Sanaa: 4 dishes

• 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.

• 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.

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