How to pronounce Shafut

Shafut is written شفوت where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ʃaˈfuːt/. In plain English letters that is sha-FOOT, 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 Shafut?

Shafut is a main dish of Yemen. Where it comes from: Northern Yemen. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and dairy & cheese. It tastes sour, fresh and spicy.

Where Shafut comes from

Shafut 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.

• 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.

• 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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