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Yemenite Lahoh
Breads & Pastries

Yemenite Lahoh

Lahoh – a spongy Yemenite yeast bread with special bubbles, cooked on one side only. Perfect with honey for Shabbat breakfast.

⏱ 1 hr 30 min🍽 8 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona
⚖ Pareve🥬 Vegetarian
Versions:Original🌱 Vegan

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Mix the yeast, sugar and lukewarm water and let stand 10 minutes, until bubbly.
    Bowl
  2. 2
    Add the flour, whole wheat flour, turmeric, salt and egg and mix into a thin, smooth batter, not a dough.
    Whisk
  3. 3
    Cover and Let rise 1–2 hours at room temperature, until the batter is full of bubbles.
    ⚙ ProofingPlastic wraporKitchen towel
  4. 4
    Heat a medium-large pan over medium heat.
    ⚙ Greased Flat PanStoveFrying pan
  5. 5
    Pour a full Ladle of batter into the pan and spread it into a thin round.
    Ladle
  6. 6
    Cook on one side only, without flipping, until the top is full of bubbles and the edges look dry.
    Stove
    💡Don't flip the lahoh: the top cooks in the steam rising from the batter and stays soft and full of holes, while only the bottom browns.
  7. 7
    Serve hot with honey, jachnun, a hard-boiled egg and tomato sauce.
152calories
6 gprotein
28 gcarbs
1 gfat
● protein 15%● carbs 77%● fat 8%

Per serving (107 g), of 8 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
  • Ladle · Also works: Measuring cup (Cup) · Spoon / teaspoon (regular) (Slow)
  • Whisk · Also works: Hand mixer (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Fork (Beat with a fork, less air)

🧻 Consumables: Kitchen towel or Plastic wrap

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