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Saltah

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Saltah is a traditional Yemeni dish considered the national dish of Yemen, widely eaten in the northern parts of the country and mainly served for lunch. Its base is a brown meat stew called maraq topped with a dollop of fenugreek froth and sahawiq, a ground salsa of chillies, tomatoes, garlic, and herbs, with rice, potatoes, scrambled eggs, sambal, and vegetables as common additions, and it is traditionally eaten with khubz mulawah, a Yemeni flatbread used to scoop up the dish; in the Ottoman Empire it was also distributed as a charitable food made from leftovers donated by the wealthy or mosques.

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Yemen 1
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1. Saltah, Wikipedia
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a traditional Yemeni dish
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