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Malawach

Malawah

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Malawach is a fried bread that's a traditional Yemeni food made with flour, pastry flour, sugar, kosher salt, baking powder, water, softened butter.

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Malawach or melawwaḥ, is a Jewish Yemenite flatbread that is traditional in Yemeni cuisine taken as Israeli cuisine. The name of the dish comes from the Arabic "ملوح", literally “board-like bread”. It was brought to Israel by Yemenite Jews. Malawach resembles a thick pancake but consists of thin layers of puff pastry brushed with oil or fat and cooked flat in a frying pan. It is traditionally served with hard-boiled eggs, zhug, and resek agvaniyot. Sometimes it is served with honey.

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