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Bint al-Sahn

Name: Bint al-Sahn
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Yemen
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 5g Dry yeast; 3 Egg; 100ml Milk; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1/2 tsp Salt; 150g Butter; 100ml Honey; 1 tbsp White Sesame Seeds

Dessert

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Many thin layers of dough baked and drenched in honey — Yemen's celebration bread-sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bint al-sahn, 'daughter of the plate,' is a traditional Yemeni sweet: thin buttery dough is stacked in many layers, baked round, and drenched in honey. The top is sprinkled with nigella (black seed). It's essential at weddings, when hosting guests, and during Ramadan, and Yemeni honey is known as a luxury.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a celebration in a Yemeni home, golden honey is poured over a round layered bread, and a sweet aroma fills the room.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 5g
Egg 3
Milk 100ml
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Butter 150g
Honey 100ml
White Sesame Seeds 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, eggs, milk, sugar, and salt and let rise 1 hour.
Divide the dough into 12 and roll each paper-thin until translucent.
Stack them one by one in a pan, brushing each with melted butter.
Brush the top with beaten egg, scatter with sesame, and rest 30 minutes.
Bake at 180°C for 30–35 minutes and drench with honey while hot.

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