Category Archives: milk

Orange and Milk pudding with Candied orange slices (Balouza)

Desserts can be divided in two categories in the Lebanese repertoire. The ones that everybody buys at the famous pastry-makers who have been doing it for one hundred years or more and the ones that people make at home, usually enlisting the services of a grandmother or kind relative. This balouza belongs to the second [...]
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Rice pudding with raspberry jelly and raspberry tuiles

The inspiration for this recipe came to me after visiting  www.mamina.fr and seeing a chocolate cake topped with a raspberry tuile. The tuile looked so ethereal and vibrantly pink I knew I had to make it. Rice pudding is a humble  dessert in Lebanese cuisine so I figured  I would give it des lettres [...]
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Semolina pudding (Lekmat al Helwa)

How would you like to eat a sort of crème brulée, but without the sinful calories, cream, egg yolks, and such?  This is a simple semolina pudding made up of semolina, milk, a bit of sugar, and flavored with orange blossom. That’s it! You can make it stylish by adding a couple teaspoons of brown [...]
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