DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Aseedah
Also known as: عصيدة
A smooth Yemeni wheat-flour dough served with melted butter and honey.
About Aseedah
Sheba Yemeni Food’s aseed is a large cooked wheat-flour dumpling. This profile selects the recipe’s sweet Yemeni presentation with melted butter and honey, alongside the source’s white and whole-wheat flour dough.
The flour gives it a mild cereal flavour, with whole wheat adding a fuller grain note. Butter enriches the dough and the chosen topping, while honey supplies the sweetness.
The finished dough is smooth, dense and cohesive, shaped with a central hollow. The source describes communal eating by hand, with pieces dipped into the centre accompaniment.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Aseedah
Sheba Yemeni Food’s sweet Yemeni aseed with butter and honey.
- White wheat flourBase
- Whole-wheat flourBase
- WaterLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- ButterBase
- OilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- HoneyTopping
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- White wheat flour: Wheat (gluten)
- Whole-wheat flour: Wheat (gluten)
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Butter: Milk. Used in dough and selected as melted topping instead of the offered ghee alternative.
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method-only plate/hand lubrication; species unspecified.
- Honey: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
Origins & food traditions
Named Yemeni sweet butter-and-honey version of aseed; no claim that it represents every Saudi or Yemeni preparation.
Countries
- Yemen
- Saudi ArabiaCatalogue link pending review
- YemenCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Yemeni Cuisine
- Najdi CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Yemeni CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.