This is a popular dessert in Egypt.
Variation can include adding raisins, shredded coconuts, various nuts, or even a scoop of ice cream on top.
Servings:
Preparation Time: 0.75 hours
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons rice
2 cups milk
6 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cinnamon & nuts
Cooking Instructions:
Notes
Belila is a popular desert in Egypt. It is also used as a breakfast, much like porridge in England.
Servings:
Preparation Time: 6 hours
Ingredients
2 cups wheat
4 tablespoons sugar
Cinnamon, coconut
Cooking Instructions
Wash wheat and put in deep pan, pour water till it covers 3/4 of the pan.
Cook on minimum for 6 hours until it becomes tender.
Sweeten with sugar and serve.
Optionally add milk, sprinkle some cinnamon and coconut on top.
Notes
Konafa is made of a very thin half cooked pastry. The closest in North America would be vermicelli or Angel hair.
Konafa can be found in some Middle Eastern groceries.
In Turkey and Greece, the name Kataifi is used for what Egyptian call Konafa, while Katayef is another different Egyptian desert.
Servings: 7
Preparation Time: 1 hours
Ingredients
Notes:
Vermicelli can be made into a rice or pasta substitute, or side dish. This recipe however, makes it a dessert.
Servings: 4
Preparation Time: 0.25 hours
Ingredients
1/2 pack vermicelli
2 cups water.
Vegetable oil.
5 tablespoons sugar.
Cooking Instructions
In a deep pan, heat oil then add vemicelli and stir till golden brown.
Dissolve sugar in water.
Add the water to vermicelli.
Leave on medium heat till water is absorbed.
Serve hot or cold.
Notes
Kahk is a dessert that is traditionally made at certain times of the year in Egypt.
It is one of the vanishing ways of cooking in Egypt.
Servings:
Preparation Time: 3 hours
Ingredients
Notes
Also spelled as Umm Ali.
Omm Ali أم علي means "Mother of Ali". This dish has some unsavory history.
In Arab countries, it is customary to call a person as "Father of X" (Abu X, or Abou X), X usually being the name of the eldest son.
There are different versions for why this dish was named Omm Ali.
Notes:
This is a popular Egyptian desert.
Servings: 24
Preparation Time: 0.5 hours
Ingredients
3 cups semolina (or Cream of wheat)
1 cup sugar
1 cup coconut
1 cup yogurt
1 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoons baking soda
blanched almonds or hazelnuts (filberts) .
2 cups sugar
1 1/3 cups water
5 drops fresh lemon juice
Cooking Instructions
