🇾🇪 Yemen cuisine · #1

Saltah

Saltah
Time45 min
Serves4
Ingredients9

Yemen's national dish: bubbling meat broth served in a stone pot topped with a frothy green fenugreek foam, eaten with bread at lunch.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Soak ground fenugreek in water for 2 hours, drain and whip with a little cold water into a frothy foam.
  2. Fry onion and meat in a stone pot or heavy pan.
  3. Add tomatoes, chili, hawaij and broth and boil hard.
  4. Spoon the fenugreek foam over the bubbling stew.
  5. Serve at once with malawah bread.