Pal Poli
Aug15

Pal Poli

  Ingredients • All purpose flour – 3 cups • Water to make dough • Milk – 1 cup • Sugar – 1 cup • Cardamoms (powdered) – 10 • Saffron, soaked in hot water – ¼ tsp • Oil – for deep frying Preparation 1. Take all purpose flour in a vessel and slowly add water little by little and knead dough. Cover and set aside. 2. Boil milk in a heavy saucepan and keep...

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Egyptian Baked Semolina Syrup Cake (Basbousa)
Aug12

Egyptian Baked Semolina Syrup Cake (Basbousa)

  Ingredients: • Fine semolina – 2 cups  • Dried coconut threads, or coarse dessicated – 1 cup  • Sugar – ½ cup  • Butter, melted – 150g (5 ounces)   • Milk – 1 cup    Syrup  • Sugar – 1½ cups   • Water – 1½ cups  • Fresh lemon juice...

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Channar Payesh with Milkmaid
Aug10

Channar Payesh with Milkmaid

  Ingredients • Chena (fresh, not pressed, cottage cheese) – 550 gms • Baking powder – ½ teaspoon • Water – 6 ½ cups • Sugar – 2 ½ cup • Refined flour (Maida) – 3 ½ tbsp • Milk – 6 cups For garnish • Cardamom – ½ tsp • Pistachio – 4 tsp • Saffron – ½ tsp Preparation 1. Squeeze out water from...

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Almond Toffee Fudge
Aug09

Almond Toffee Fudge

  Ingredients: • Good quality unsalted butter (I prefer Danish style) – 250g   • Raw sugar – 1 1/2 cups   • Pouring consistency pure cream – 1 cup   • Whole unblanched almonds, oven-roasted or fried, and very coarsely chopped – 1 cup  • Full cream powdered milk – 3 1/2 cups  • Extra toasted, crushed, slivered, flaked or...

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Burfi
Aug08

Burfi

  Ingredients: • Milk (makes a dozen medium-small sized pieces) – 4 cups • Sugar (turbinado, mishri…) – 1/2 cup    Preparation: 1. Pour the milk into a wide, heavy-bottomed pot and place over high heat. Add the sugar. Bring to a boil and then lower the heat so that the milk boils steadily but without rising. Stir now and then so that the milk does not stick to the bottom of the...

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