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Mahyawa

مهياوة

pungent fermented anchovy sauce spread on flatbread

Bahrain Sauce & condiment One for the adventurous

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Sauce of fermented anchovies with mustard seed and spices, brought by Persian migrants and smeared on bread.

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What is Mahyawa?

Mahyawa is a sauce & condiment from Bahrain: pungent fermented anchovy sauce spread on flatbread. Sauce of fermented anchovies with mustard seed and spices, brought by Persian migrants and smeared on bread.

Made with

fishspices

Cooked

fermented

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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