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Malawah

Name: Malawah
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Yemen
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 170ml Water; 1 tsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 100g Butter; To taste Honey; 3 Hard-boiled eggs

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⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Dough brushed with butter and folded into many layers, then pan-fried — Yemen's flaky layered bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Malawah is a Yemeni layered flatbread: dough is stretched paper-thin, brushed with butter, rolled or folded, then pan-fried. It's flaky outside with soft layers inside. Eaten for breakfast with honey, eggs, or spicy tomato sauce, it also became popular among Yemenite Jews who moved to Israel.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning in a Yemeni home, layered bread browns in a frying pan and is set out with honey, boiled eggs, and tomato sauce.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 300g
Water 170ml
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Butter 100g
Honey To taste
Hard-boiled eggs 3

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, water, sugar, and salt, divide into 6 balls, coat with oil, and rest 1 hour.
Oil the work surface and stretch each piece by hand until translucent.
Brush with melted butter, roll up from one edge into a rope, coil into a spiral, and rest 30 minutes.
Flatten with your palm and pan-fry until golden on both sides.
Clap between your hands to loosen the layers and serve with honey and boiled eggs.

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