Yemeni Malawah/Yemenite Malawach

Yemen is known as Republic of Yemen situated in Western Asia, with Sana'a as capital this country is indeed right of Mecca, the holy city for muslims. I have already tried couple of dishes from this cuisine. You might have noticed that am running a month of blogging marathon with A-Z International flatbreads and i grabbed a Yemenite flat bread aka Malawach. Malawach/Malawah is quite a Yemenite Jewish fried bread which is traditional in both Yemeni and Israeli cuisine. Malawah or Malawach resembles very much as a crispy pancake which is served with variety of accompaniments. This bread calls for a similiar preparation technique of puff pastry. Hence this Malawah consists of thin layers of puff pastry which is brushed with fat or oil and cooked in frying pan or baked in oven. Malawah is a staple of all Yemeni Jews.This dish is served always with hard boiled eggs,chopped or crushed flavoured tomatoes and cheese. Through immigration of Yemenite Jews to Isreal, this bread had become a favourite comforts food for Israel of all backgrounds and national origins.

Saluf/Salouf - Yemenite Traditional Flatbread

Saluf/Saloof is a traditional Yemenite flat bread which is baked in Taboun oven. This incredible flatbread is definitely an excellent dish to give a try, if you feel like having a different flatbread. When i went through this post, i completely fallen in love with this interesting flatbread. Actually a wet dough of saluf is slapped against taboun wall, once its gets cooked this bread will fell down off. To prepare this flatbread, two techniques pf preparing the doughs do exists. Either prepare a sticky batter of this bread to do or else use less water to get a stiff dough and shape. If you are planning to make a wet dough, your salufs will definitely turns soft and puffy,though the stiff dough works awesome as well.

Hawaij/Yemeni Spice Mix ~~ Yemeni Cuisine

As like 'Q, W and X', the alphabet 'Y' dont have that much option when its comes to a Country name starting with alphabets and obviously i sticked with Yemeni Cuisine as am running a whole month of blogging marathon with Around the World in 30days as theme..Its wonderful to know that this cuisine is influenced very much by Indians as well, obviously most of the Indian spices are used in this cuisine.

Yemen has 2 major regions: North and South Yemen, which used to be different states until the end of the 20th century. The traditions and the cultural habits are similar in the 2 regions of Yemen and the cuisine seems to be unique and general. Because it is mostly a rural country, the agriculture occupies the wide territories, filled with Wheat, coffee and the local qat.The most traditional dish is the saltah. Saltah is a soup like stew where vegetables and meat are removed from the cooking liquid and served separately. The soup is then served with a sauce made from ground fenugreek called Helbah. It is served with lunch and is considered the national dish of Yemen. *

The most important feature of the Yemeni cuisine is the fact that it is very spicy and the hot taste is the most frequent one. There is a wide range of such sauces and dressings, used to spice up the meat or the salads. Since cereals are grown in the country, Yemen people also make their own traditional bread, called the mellawach, which is served with a spicy hot sauce that contains many spices, called the zahaug. Zahaug (zahaug is salsa in which we call it in the west) is also put on grilled meat, besides the hilbeh (hilbah is another name for saltah), fenugreek or coriander paste. The Yemen cuisine includes Lebanese and Indian aliments and spices and also the Arabic general rules, Egyptian and Persian tastes, in a unique combination and authentic cuisine. Yemeni cuisine is extremely popular among the Arab States of the Persian Gulf