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Fatoot samneh
Fatoot samneh is a bread-and-egg dish within Yemenite Jewish food traditions.
About Fatoot samneh
Fatoot samneh is a bread-and-egg dish within Yemenite Jewish food traditions. Vered Guttman describes a popular version with saluf flatbread, fenugreek-spiced clarified butter and honey.
The samneh gives the bread a buttery, fenugreek-scented character. Eggs add richness, honey brings sweetness, and nigella seeds provide a distinctive seeded finish. Milk is an optional addition in this account.
Pieces of saluf form the body of the dish beneath its honey and nigella topping. The source describes it as family food, with some households serving it at lunch before the pre-Yom Kippur meal.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Egg, Wheat.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Fatoot samneh
Yemenite Jewish fatta samneh with eggs and honey, described by Vered Guttman.
- Samneh (fenugreek-spiced clarified butter)Cooking medium · Samneh egg dish
- EggsProtein · Samneh egg dish
- MilkLiquid · Samneh egg dish · Optional
- HoneyTopping · Samneh egg dish
- Nigella seedsTopping · Samneh egg dish
- All-purpose flourBase · Saluf bread
- Dry yeastSeasoning · Saluf bread
- SugarSweetener · Saluf bread
- Kosher saltSeasoning · Saluf bread
- Nigella seedsSeasoning · Saluf bread
- Ground fenugreek seedSeasoning · Saluf bread · Optional
- WaterLiquid · Saluf bread
- Olive oilCooking medium · Saluf bread
- Oil sprayCooking medium · Saluf breadIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Samneh (fenugreek-spiced clarified butter): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual main46 names fenugreek-spiced clarified butter; broader clarified-butter candidate confirms Milk, full upstream formula unknown.
- Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual main46 explicitly eggs.
- Milk (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual main46 'sometimes milk', optional.
- Honey: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual main46 required service in this named sweet version.
- Nigella seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual main46 required sprinkle, distinct from seeds in the expanded saluf.
- All-purpose flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat source-confirmed. Own linked saluf74 all-AP branch; ordinary AP flour confirms Wheat. Broader wheat-flour candidate.
- Dry yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own saluf76 dry yeast, preferred instant brand not mandatory; broader dry-yeast candidate.
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own saluf78.
- Kosher salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own saluf80; broader salt candidate.
- Nigella seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own saluf82 required in this offered bread, separate final topping.
- Ground fenugreek seed (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own saluf84 explicitly optional ground seed; broader seed candidate, not leaves.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own saluf86 dough and method95/97 hand/surface water retained together.
- Olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own saluf88 dough oil.
- Oil spray: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Own saluf95/97/100 actual tray medium; product/oil formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Yemen; Israel association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Countries
- Yemen
- Israel
- IsraelCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Yemeni Cuisine
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