🇾🇪 Yemen
Saltah
Sana'a's midday ritual: a stone bowl arrives volcanic, the hulba foam trembling on top, flatbread for spoons.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 25 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Whipped fenugreek (hulba) and sahawiq over a meat-vegetable stew, served still boiling in stone.
Ingredients
- 300 gground or leftover braised meat
- 2 potatoes, diced
- 3 tomatoes
- 2 tbspfenugreek seeds, soaked overnight
- 1 bunchcoriander and green chili (sahawiq)
- 1 tsphawaij
Method
- 1
Simmer meat, potato, and tomato with hawaij into a thick stew.
- 2
Whip the soaked fenugreek with iced water until it froths white.
- 3
Pound coriander, chili, garlic, and tomato into sahawiq.
- 4
Slide the hulba and sahawiq over the boiling stew and serve immediately with malooga bread.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4