sfiha
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Sfiha, esfiha, esfirra, sfija, sfihah, sfeeha or fatay () is a Levantine dish consisting of flatbread cooked with a minced meat topping, often a mix of sheep and veal, and flavored with onions, tomatoes, pine nuts, and spices. It is traditionally found in the countries of the Levant, and is closely related to manakish and lahmacun. Sfiha is particularly associated with Baalbek, a city located in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon.
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Within Vinony's link graph, sfiha is referenced by 194 other articles, and connects out to Tabun oven, halva and baklava.
It sits within the topics Arab cuisine, Brazilian cuisine and Flatbreads.
Its subject is documented across 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Sfiha
- Food.image
- Sfiha2.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.alternate_name
- Lahem bi ajin
- Food.country
- Levant
- Food.type
- Flatbread
- Food.main_ingredient
- Ground mutton
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- Bilad al-Sham
- Material used
- lamb meat
- Image
- Sfiha2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sfiha
- native label
- صَفِيحَة
- location of creation
- Levant
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Etymology
- Main ingredients
- Regional variations
- Lebanon
- Palestine
- Latin America
- Similar dishes
- Lahmacun
- See also
- References
Sfiha, esfiha, esfirra, sfija, sfihah, sfeeha or fatay () is a Levantine dish consisting of flatbread cooked with a minced meat topping, often a mix of sheep and veal, and flavored with onions, tomatoes, pine nuts, and spices. It is traditionally found in the countries of the Levant, and is closely related to manakish and lahmacun. Sfiha is particularly associated with Baalbek, a city located in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon.
Sfiha has become popular in parts of South America, where it is known as esfiha or esfirra in Brazil or as empanada árabe ("Arab empanada"), fatay or sfija in Argentina, after being introduced by Arab Brazilians and Arab Argentines from the Levant and Armenia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sfiha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.