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semia

Language: Urdu

Description: Vermicelli. Thin, fried, string-like preparation made from gram flour. At "eeds" this is often as part of a celebratory breakfast dish called senvaya in which it is cooked in syrup until the liquid evaporates, becoming sweet and slightly crunchy.


semia
Semia, ready to cook

Pronounced: SAY-myah
Ethnicity: Pakistani
Most frequent country: Pakistan
Better known as: sevai
Also known as: kurdaya, samiya, sev, sevian, shavigai, shevangi, shevayi, siwain

See foods and dishes: gram flour, pasta

See: eed ul fitr, eed uz zoha

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