Khubz mulawah ( ar, خبز ملوح), mulawah ( ar, ملوح), or rashush ( ar, رشوش) is a Yemeni flatbread that is baked in a traditional

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Yemeni cuisine Yemeni cuisine is distinct from the wider Middle Eastern cuisines, but with a degree of regional variation. Although some foreign influences are evident in some regions of the country (with Ottoman cuisine, Ottoman influences showing in Sanaa, w ...

. A similar bread,

malawach Malawach or Melawwaḥ, (; literally means "board-like bread"), is a flatbread that is traditional in Yemenite Jewish cuisine. It was brought to Israel by Yemenite Jews. Malawach resembles a thick pancake but consists of thin layers of puff past ...

, has been brought to Israel by Yemenite Jews . Khubz mulawah is often eaten for breakfast with

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and honey on weekends.

Etymology

Both mulawah and

Lahoh Lahoh ( or , ar, لحوح, laḥūḥ, ) ), is a spongy, flat pancake-like bread that originated from Somalia.Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi, ''Culture and Customs of Somalis'', (Greenwood Press: 2001), p. 113. It is a type of flat bread eaten regu ...

terms come from the Arabic root ( l-w-ḥ) which means the thing that is flat.

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{{Flatbreads Yemeni cuisine Puff pastry

Etymology

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