Khamir bread

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Khamir lahaji bread

***** Location: Yemen
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation


KHAMIR is a type of bread
made from maize flour mixed with barley.

millet (dukhn)
sorghum (dhurah)

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Millet, sorghum [looks like big millet] and maize as main food crops in Yemen.
It's not just millet. It is pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), finger millet and little millet. They are used for human food in the form of flour.
In Lahaj very common Khamir lahaji, baked in traditional ceramic ovens [Moufa].

. Millet, barn millet (hie) 　


The rivers in Lahaj are not perennial. It is floodwater [Sujul] in the monsoon rain season. Therefor, when the wadis are filled up.
A lot of families (Aden City) go there by car to see, smell and taste this beauty.
For me is a trip to Lahaj or Lahj always connected with the taste of its bread (khamir; fermented dough, cooked/baked in a ceramic oven). Bread might be not enough, so we add self-grilled chicken [on charcoal] in an orchard near a jasmine plantation.

Heike Gewi


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Lahj
Location:
Lahj Governorate is located 320 km southwest of the Capital City of Sana’a and 30 km to the east of the City of Aden and is considered a crossing point to and from many governorates.
The most Famous Mountains in Lahj Governorate:
- Radfan Mountains
- Yafie Mountains

Climate:
The governorates climate varies according to the topography of the terrain. In the coastal plains the temperature can rise in the summer to 32∞C, where the mean temperature in the winter comes down to 20∞C. The coastal plains also witness rainfall in the winter and autumn. However in the mountainous highlands, rainfall is witnessed in the spring and summer seasons.

Agricultural Products:
The cutivated area in the Governorate of Lahj is 60,000 feddans. The most popular wadis are Wadi Tuban, Wadi Wirzan, Wadi Yahr, Wadi Saba and Wadi Al-Rruja’a. Along the banks of Wadi Tiban, a number of recent dams were constructed. Since Wadi Tiban is characterized by a semi-tropical climate this fills the gardens of Lahj Governorate with vegetables, fruits, various types of grain and long fiber cotton.
source : www.yementrips.com


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


Khamir lahaji...
the taste of Wadi Wirzan
filled with rain water

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khamir lahaji
eaten - the picnic basket
fills up with jasmine

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from the jasmine field
rieses a birdsong...
crumbs of khamir lahaji


Heike Gewi
Yemen 2010



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Related words

***** WKD : Millet



***** YEMEN SAIJIKI



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