Yemenis Beverages and Sweets the
Yemenis consume lot of sweets but in deferent way of Westerns, for example the sweet not included in the meal as part of it and cab be eat any time, eating date with Madhbi
meal ( Bar B. Q.) or honey with fattah, bent assahn, or sabaya mean the meal are sweet… Yemenis normally eats fresh or dried fruits in the same way. This usage include the
beverages. Let's start with traditional drink Naqie Bargoug or apricot nectar, soak the dried apricots in water over night, then move
hard seeds, ad little bit of rose water and mustaka (from Yemeni incence) mix and drink. Humar or tamarind drink, soak the tamarind in
water, move the seeds then add sugar rose water and mustaka. Grenadine and Grape juice. Get the grenades or grapes into manual
squeezer then get the fresh liquid as a juice. Shaninah made of black raisins, soak the raisins in water over night the blend them
return them to the same water, mix and drink as a nectar. Lemon juice squeeze fresh green limes shell with sugar, this way get the
flavor, then add squeezed sugar to water and get the juice for limes in the mix, add mustaka then drink. Mixed nectar mango papaya
banana nectars, pour them to class separately then upper add grape or grenadine or any dark red juice, you'll get mixed nice colors to light the nectars use milk or coconut
milk, mints leafs to garnish.
The Yemenis Sweets lot
of Yemeni dishes what aver kind it is consumed out of Yemen, in some areas they just add it to there menu as a local dish!!! Any how the food and music are international
language, Zambatiyah in a brass pot putting in charcoal flaming fair, water boiling the ground cinnamon cardamom nutmeg , whole gloves
added then meager the sugar as needed then saffron grenadine or lemon peels added to the boiling mixture, when the mix ready, add
from bowl liquidized starch while mixing, keep mixing until the mix become dough then add ghee or sesame oil. Each color or flavor
of this sweet will have a name according to area favorite it, as Adni, Hadrami, Hudaydi …. Etc. Khamm this sweet come in large
circles, the basics same above instate starch they add flour, when the mix get thick they add more ground sugar, not coloring so the circle have white color but in some places
they use saffron, the sweet hard in touch, they divide the sweet to wages. Bandri this type of sweet have the same basics above use
starch to thick it also same coloring , after cooking dropped to flat large pan, then cut to squire peaces, pick up the peaces and cover them in ground sugar until it's become
dried, then packaged them in small baskets for marketing. Mushbbak start as liquid
contain water flour milk eggs, mix then in fraying while the sesame oil boiling, fill cup of liquid and throw hole in the cup drop the mix into oil rounded, let it get light
brown the take out load by load, in rounded pot collect the fried material then add the syrup or honey, it's will be mix and get hard and stick together as one circle, thee add
dough from cooked sugar flour and white flour, to coat the circle, when use cut as wages, it's test nice and crunchy. Sharab
or candy sticks, boil the water and sugar half each, add cinnamon grounded lemon salt, let the mix boil until become thick, take out little for test, if the mix become
strong like rubber then in flat large board drop the mix, it's flash as a rubber dough, let got little bit cool, then install woo hanger over the board, make tuck the dough as
a long thick stick, hang it form the meddle, then pull down both ends and return, repeat until the dough become white the make as sticks or any shape up to your choice, color
can be added by using brush let it got dray in sun the sprinkle sugar flour to keep it dry and sprite from each other. Mujaljal sesame
seeds sweet, melt the sugar in hot pan, don't let it become brown, the add the seeds, mix then make it in any shape. Rwani look like
sponge cake, this type of sweet, flour eggs yellow milk, mix with little water, in bowl whip the white of eggs, when ready collect the mix and bake as a cake should be raise up
, when cooked let it get cool the soak it in syrup or honey. Guraybah or Kaak this type
of sweets look like biscuits, the basic way to make it : flour wheat in general, ghee or sesame oil , salt sugar, let these items become together as sticky ball then add water
as need, the dough should strong, in some add fine minced dates and cinnamon, make the shape and size as you wish then bake in oven or well closed fraying pan until the
biscuits become dray and crisps. The Yemenis use this type of sweets and dried fruits like dates and raisins in traveling. Mocha the word
mean coastal city use to export the most finest super test coffee beans in the globe, I'm proud to introduce this excellent aristocratic super hot
drink, from the ripe dray coffee whole beans they sprit peels from beans ( peels use in other hot drink called qisher look like tea) when that operations occur your nose
well not be able to ignore that nice smell , simmer the beans in pottery fraying pan, the color and test come together, so brown or
light can make the test as choice, the secret of magic test come from the beans it's self, blend the simmered beans using wooden or
stone blender, while the water boiling the coffee cattle Jamanh(pottery) or Dallah
(brass) add some of blended coffee let it keep boiling until smelling , now you can drink your coffee with spices such
as cardamom cloves ginger cinnamon, Yemenis minimize the spices in there coffee just to bring the pure coffee test and if they use some that's well be ginger or cinnamon, some
add sugar or honey to the coffee, The Yemenis generally drink the coffee in the early morning, when the sun start send the golden rise upper the villages sitting in there dark
green sheets, the coffee cattle on the charcoal heater boiling and Incence smoking while the fresh air come for the fields
around carried the flowers smell from pastures and gardens and mix it with the house smell….. in the season of coffee flowers, the whole area well be full of nice
smell between jasmine and rose . It's beautiful morning for the simple Yemeni happy farmers and country residents all..