Yemen bread

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  • maisah
  on Nov. 18, 2008 at 2:58 PM

• It sound like that bread that my dh brought back from his trip to Palestine last year... he got it in Jerusalam. It is really big and thin, has some crunchyness to it in places yet soft.

  I will google it. I have beed wanting to make it also but I am not sure I have the amadities to do so.. it is very big bread unless I grill it.....

  insh'Allah someone can help us..

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  • a_ramli05
  on Nov. 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM

• I believe we are on the same ride here....problem is I don't know the name of it so when I googled it I just typed in yemen bread (YEAH LIKE THAT WAS GOING TO WORK)....LOL....my husband had a friend over last night for dinner and I served it along side the meal and he is from palestine and I had mentioned how it looked like it had been dry fried on both sides because of the way the bread looked in certain places and he said that it can be done that way but mostly it is prepared in the oven  on a cast iron flat ...I usually can look at something and I can tell how it is done but I have no idea what the ingredients are so someone PLEASE HELP PLEASE.....I am going to see if my husband can ask his boss to have his wife write it all down and have my husband translate it to english (inshaa Allah).....I am supposed to go back over to her house this weekend and watch her do the kunafah all by herself just to make sure she understood the steps and can do it all by her lonesome....I really like her bread so inshaa Allah she will be able to walk me thru it....keep me posted if you find a recipe online....I'm all googled out on this one LOL
  

  Quoting maisah:
  
  

  It sound like that bread that my dh brought back from his trip to Palestine last year... he got it in Jerusalam. It is really big and thin, has some crunchyness to it in places yet soft.

  I will google it. I have beed wanting to make it also but I am not sure I have the amadities to do so.. it is very big bread unless I grill it.....

  insh'Allah someone can help us..

  
  

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  • kateroorda
  on Nov. 18, 2008 at 7:25 PM

• I have a friend from Yemen who makes it A LOT! She's tried to teach me but I just can't get it. You have to seperate the dough into small balls and then spread it super thin across the pan and spread each layer of dough with butter. I think she probably does 15-20 layers. Its a simple recipe but spreading the dough so thin is what is hard. Thank goodness my husband isn't a huge fan of it! Oh and its really good with honey too!!

  Wait, I think I found it. I think its called malooga. I found a recipe on this blog:

  http://triedandtrueeats.blogspot.com/2008/09/malooga-yemeni-flat-bread.html

  And she has a bunch of other good Yemeni recipes too!  Hope that helps!

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  • a_ramli05
  on Nov. 18, 2008 at 8:10 PM

• Thank you so much dear....but for some reason it does sound a bit confusing...you are right....I'm going to read over it a few times to see if I can understand it better....plus if I can get the sister to do it with me this up coming weekend then maybe I can get it this way inshaa Allah....wish me luck
  

  Quoting kateroorda:
  
  

  I have a friend from Yemen who makes it A LOT! She's tried to teach me but I just can't get it. You have to seperate the dough into small balls and then spread it super thin across the pan and spread each layer of dough with butter. I think she probably does 15-20 layers. Its a simple recipe but spreading the dough so thin is what is hard. Thank goodness my husband isn't a huge fan of it! Oh and its really good with honey too!!

  Wait, I think I found it. I think its called malooga. I found a recipe on this blog:

  http://triedandtrueeats.blogspot.com/2008/09/malooga-yemeni-flat-bread.html

  And she has a bunch of other good Yemeni recipes too!  Hope that helps!

  
  

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  • QueenAdeela
  on Nov. 18, 2008 at 9:40 PM

• You will find this receipe because it sounds delicious and multipurpose...breakfast, lunch, or dinner.  I try to bake,  so I will try this too when you show me what to do!
  

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  • a_ramli05
  on Nov. 19, 2008 at 2:00 AM

• Yeah guess my kitchen is going to be the messy one right....LOL...don't worry I have the perfect guinea pig here at homes....Hubby has to taste test everything I make or he starves....Today he had spinach pies for breakfast and called me from work at told me he was still alive and they were good....and for lunch I made Foul with some of this bread and he is still kicking ....for dinner I went oriental on him and made orange chicken ......so no worries when I finally do get this recipe and make it if husband is still kicking and screaming then I will post it for us....
  

  Quoting QueenAdeela:
  
  

  You will find this receipe because it sounds delicious and multipurpose...breakfast, lunch, or dinner.  I try to bake,  so I will try this too when you show me what to do!
  

  
  

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  • maisah
  on Nov. 19, 2008 at 4:20 PM

• My husband said it is called (Shrak or Tarbon)spell check) he got it from Armon not Jarusalem. i hope it is the same but maybe dif name.

  I forgot to aske him last night, I just called him.

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  • maisah
  on Nov. 19, 2008 at 4:27 PM

• It is the same concept, .. I like that recipe... does seam hard, I am going to try it too. and thr Basboosa

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  • QueenAdeela
  on Nov. 19, 2008 at 4:31 PM

• When I tried to look it up,  Tabon was one of the keywords.  And the makhbasa is can either be the bakery,  the bread,  or the tool used to cook it.  But I couldn't find any pictures.  Do you all know which american tool is the equal to the makhbasa?  It was said that there may not be an equal.
  

  Quoting maisah:
  
  

  My husband said it is called (Shrak or Tarbon)spell check) he got it from Armon not Jarusalem. i hope it is the same but maybe dif name.

  I forgot to aske him last night, I just called him.

  
  

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  • a_ramli05
  on Nov. 19, 2008 at 6:04 PM

• From the searching I did last night (THIS IS DRIVING ME UP THE WALL) I was up till 1am looking on line...if you type the workd makhbasa on google and click images you will get only one image of it....but from what I read last night there is no equivalent here in the USA so they bake the bread on a large round pan kind of like a pizza pan ....I saw a few of them on the sisters refrigerator.....Pray she is in the mood to teach me this upcoming weekend well that is if hubby talked to her hubby about it already....we will see

  
  

  GIRL I AM SO OBSESSED WITH THIS NOW I EVEN CHECKED ON EBAY FOR THIS TOOL ....CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT
  

  Quoting QueenAdeela:
  
  

  When I tried to look it up,  Tabon was one of the keywords.  And the makhbasa is can either be the bakery,  the bread,  or the tool used to cook it.  But I couldn't find any pictures.  Do you all know which american tool is the equal to the makhbasa?  It was said that there may not be an equal.
  

  Quoting maisah:
  
  

  My husband said it is called (Shrak or Tarbon)spell check) he got it from Armon not Jarusalem. i hope it is the same but maybe dif name.

  I forgot to aske him last night, I just called him.

  
  

  
  

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