Tag Archives: cream

Milk cream (Hariré)

This is a simple milk “cream” that is prepared over the stove in  5 minutes with milk, starch and flavoring. It is similar to the muhallabieh, except here rose water is used (and starch instead of rice flour). It was traditionally consumed for breakfast according to Fayez Aoun, author of 280 recettes de cuisine familiale [...]
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Egyptian bread pudding (Oum Ali)

  On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, this is a popular and delicious Egyptian pastry called Oum Ali. Oum is the word for mother in Arabic. It is a Middle-Eastern bread pudding, made with phyllo dough or rakakat pastry sheets. The neighborhood Middle-Eastern store had a few boxes of ROKAK, these pastry sheets imported from [...]
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Pistachio cream for dieters

Did you ever experience having people turn down a dessert you slaved over saying “sorry, I am on a diet”?  Nearly everyone is on a  diet these days and this is a solution. Serve it in a mini-container (each serving  less than 100 calories), and no one will refuse to have a spoonful of this [...]
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