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Aseeda

Name: Aseeda
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Yemen
Ingredients: 250g Whole Wheat Flour; 500ml Water; 1/2 tsp Salt; 50g Butter; 5 tbsp Honey

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

A mound of kneaded flour dough with a well filled with honey and butter — a traditional Yemeni food.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Aseeda is a dish of chewy dough made by vigorously kneading flour into boiling water. It's shaped into a mound with a well in the center, filled with melted butter and honey. In Yemen it's eaten to break the Ramadan fast and on winter mornings, and there's also a custom of serving it to women after childbirth to build strength.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a winter morning in a Yemeni home, golden honey and melted butter are poured into the well of a dough mound in the middle of a big platter.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Whole Wheat Flour 250g
Water 500ml
Salt 1/2 tsp
Butter 50g
Honey 5 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring the water and salt to a boil in a pot.
Add the whole wheat flour all at once and stir vigorously with a wooden spatula.
Turn to low and keep kneading for about 10 minutes until it forms a single glossy mass.
Transfer to a wet bowl, shape into a mound, and make a well in the center.
Pour melted butter and honey into the well and eat by tearing off dough and dipping it.

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