🇾🇪 Yemen
Masoub
Sana'a mornings begin with masoub: yesterday's flatbread pounded with ripe bananas, then honey poured with a heavy hand.
🔪 Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 10 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Torn brown flatbread worked into caramel-ripe bananas, crowned with qishta, Yemeni honey, dates, and a rain of nuts.
Ingredients
- 3 flatbreads (khubz or malooga), torn
- 4 very ripe bananas
- 150 gqishta or thick cream
- 100 ghoney
- 4 dates, sliced
- 40 galmonds and raisins
- 1 pinchground cardamom
Method
- 1
Toast the torn bread lightly in a dry pan until it smells nutty.
- 2
Mash the bananas coarsely and work the warm bread through them.
- 3
Warm through gently with the cardamom so it binds into a soft mash.
- 4
Spread in a bowl, spoon over the cream, honey, dates, and nuts, and eat warm.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4