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Kubaneh
Also known as: קובנה
Yemenite Jewish pull-apart bread enriched with butter and slowly baked overnight.
About Kubaneh
Kubaneh is a Yemenite Jewish bread traditionally baked slowly overnight for Shabbat morning. This profile follows Jewish Food Society's pull-apart version, shaping buttered dough into spirals and finishing it with nigella seeds.
Butter gives the bread a rich, rounded flavour, while brown sugar lends gentle sweetness and supports a deeply browned crust. Nigella seeds add small bursts of peppery, onion-like aroma.
The baked loaf is tall and mahogany-gold, with closely packed rose-like coils that pull apart into soft, layered strands. Its exterior is darker and firmer than the tender, buttery centre.
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 Kubaneh
Jewish Food Society's Yemenite Overnight Kubaneh with Butter and Nigella.
- All-purpose wheat flourSoft bread structure
- Brown sugarGentle sweetness and browning
- SaltSeasoning
- Active dry yeastYeast leavening
- Warm waterDough hydration
- Canola oilDough handling and pan coating
- Unsalted butterRich laminated layers
- Nigella seedsPeppery seed finish
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- All-purpose wheat flour:
- Brown sugar:
- Salt:
- Active dry yeast:
- Warm water:
- Canola oil: . The selected source permits canola or vegetable oil; this profile fixes the named canola-oil option
- Unsalted butter:
- Nigella seeds:
Origins & food traditions
Jewish Food Society supplies the complete selected Yemenite overnight-bread recipe with a buttered spiral shape and nigella-seed finish. My Jewish Learning independently describes kubaneh as a Yemenite Jewish yeasted dough laminated with butter, shaped into roses and slow-baked overnight for Shabbat breakfast.
Cuisines & regions
- Yemenite Jewish Cuisine
- Israeli CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Mizrahi Jewish CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Yemenite Jewish CuisineCatalogue link pending review