Lahoh

Lahoh
TypeFlatbreads
Region or stateEast Africa and Middle East
Associated cuisineYemeni cuisine, Somali cuisine
Main ingredientsPlain flour, sorghum flour, wheat flour, self-rising flour, white cornmeal/cornflour, yeast, salt
VariationsCambaabur
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Lahoh (Arabic: لحوح, romanizedlaḥūḥ [laħuːħ]; Somali: laxoox) is a type of spongy flatbread eaten regularly in Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Saudi Arabia. Yemenite Jewish immigrants popularized the dish in Israel. It is called canjeero/canjeelo in southern Somalia and called lahoh in Somaliland, Djibouti, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.