Gulf & Yemeni recipes
9 Gulf & Yemeni recipes for a home kitchen, from 25 minutes. Have some of the ingredients already? Match them to what you have.
Dinner
75 min
Gulf & Yemeni · dinner
Chicken kabsa
Saudi one-pot spiced rice with chicken, tomato, dried lime and carrots, topped with nuts and raisins.
90 min
Gulf & Yemeni · dinner
Saltah
Yemen's national dish: a bubbling stew topped with whipped fenugreek froth (hulba), served sizzling in a stone pot with flatbread.
90 min
Gulf & Yemeni · dinner
Chicken machboos
Kuwaiti and Bahraini spiced chicken and rice with loomi (dried lime), tomato and fried onion-raisin topping (hashu).
120 min
Gulf & Yemeni · dinner
Chicken mandi
Yemeni spiced roast chicken over fragrant rice cooked in its drippings, finished with charcoal smoke.
Breakfast
Baking & sweets
75 min
Gulf & Yemeni · baking
Luqaimat
Gulf saffron-cardamom dumplings fried crisp and drizzled with date syrup and sesame.
120 min
Gulf & Yemeni · baking
Malawach
Yemeni-Jewish flaky laminated flatbread pan-fried golden, served with grated tomato, hard-boiled egg and zhug.
180 min
Gulf & Yemeni · baking
Bint al sahn
Yemeni honey cake of flaky buttered layers baked golden and drenched in warm honey.
780 min
Gulf & Yemeni · baking
Jachnun
Yemeni-Jewish Shabbat pastry: rolled buttery dough logs baked low overnight until caramel-brown, with eggs baked alongside.
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