How to pronounce Zurbian

Zurbian is written زربيان where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /zurbiˈjaːn/. In plain English letters that is zur-bee-YAHN, 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 Zurbian?

Zurbian is a rice dish of Yemen. Where it comes from: Aden. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and on festive days. Its main ingredients are rice, lamb and chicken. It tastes savory and spicy.

Where Zurbian comes from

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

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  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.

• Mandi مندي · Rice dish · Hadhramaut

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

• 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.

• 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.

Food of Yemen

Dishes like Zurbian in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Zurbian:

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• Hyderabadi biryani हैदराबादी बिरयानी · Rice dish · Hyderabad, India

  Biryani reached India with Persian and Mughal cooks, and Hyderabad, ruled for two centuries by the Nizams, made its own version the city's signature.

• Sindhi biryani سندھی بریانی · Rice dish · Sindh, Pakistan

  Biryani, rice layered with meat and spices and steamed together, came to South Asia with Persian and Mughal influences.

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